Water management is always a major challenge in major educational institutions such as universities, engineering colleges and schools with so many water tanks, motors and valves for distribution of water. Huge manpower is also required to monitor supply round the clock in large campuses. Many institutions face difficulties in controlling wastage of water and electricity despite taking several steps.
An engineer, Vamsi Chikati, who returned from Canada, could find out a permanent solution to these problems by establishing wireless platform WiseNet.
It includes sensors, valve controllers, motor controllers, communication devices and web interface. Wireless devices are integrated with the existing motors, valves and tanks to assess the usage at every level.
With the adoption of wireless facility, the pumps in all the places can be operated from a single point. It is also easy to check the leakages and wastages. “Pumping is a tedious work since water has to be supplied from 4 a.m. onwards in the hostels since students have to be ready by 6 a.m.
Manual operation may lead to inefficiency sometimes. With the automation, the monitoring will be easy and it helps to save electricity bills also. We can utilise the manpower effectively with the adoption of wireless technology,” said Mr.Vamsi.
“As part of the Make in India programme, we want to expand these activities to other institutions and industries also. We are approaching the industries department since government gives lot of priority for the water management to overcome acute shortage of water in many places,” he added.
Gurajada Educational Society located on the outskirts expressed happiness over the adoption of new technology. “We used to face many difficulties to provide water to all the 4,000 students in the hostels. Now, we could overcome these difficulties with the installation of new technology.” said G.V.Swami Naidu, chairman of the institution.
