IIT Guwahati, Bombay, European join hands to check Indian water quality

IIT Guwahati, Bombay, European join hands to check Indian water quality: IIT Guwahati and Bombay have joined hands with European universities to develop a technology to check the quality of potable and other water in India.

The LOTUS Indo-European project is an initiative of the Dept of Science and Technology and the European Commission.

Aim: To provide solutions for issues related to the quality of water supplied across Indian households.

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The LOTUS project is built around a novel water quality sensor developed at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. The LOTUS Indo-European project, an initiative of the Department of Science and Technology and the European Commission, is aimed at providing solutions for issues related to the quality of water supplied across Indian households and elsewhere.  The sensor was further developed during the project by researchers at Université Gustave Eiffel in collaboration with IIT Guwahati and the SME EGM, Sophia Antipolis, France. According to S Senthilmurugan, Chairperson, Technology Incubation Centre, IIT Guwahati, LOTUS water quality sensor requirements were established after collecting information from Indian water utility owners, operators, end users, and research and development experts and therefore LOTUS sensor is expected to satisfy Indian water industries.

“The LOTUS sensor developed at IIT Guwahati is being designed to address sensing needs and quality control aspects across different use case scenarios encompassing safe drinking water, agricultural water and wastewater.

“The overall framework including the LOTUS sensor, and the quality monitoring and control algorithms developed at IIT Bombay, would be developed and deployed on platforms to provide improved solutions to address major water quality control issues across the country,” said Ravindra Gudi, Dean (Alumni and Corporate Relations), IIT Bombay.