Remote monitoring of rural water systems: A pathway to improved performance and sustainability?,WIREs Water

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Remote monitoring of rural water systems: A pathway to improved performance and sustainability?
WIREs Water ( IF 6.8 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-25 , DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1502
Patrick Thomson _{1,

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The presence of the mobile phone network in rural areas where there is little other infrastructure has opened up the prospect of automatically monitoring rural water systems, something previously possible only in person and perhaps only on foot. The technology to monitor these systems continues to develop: basic systems are now leaving research and being implemented in operational WASH programs; machine learning is making pump failure prediction possible. With the move from the previous infrastructure‐focused community management paradigm, to a service‐delivery approach to rural water, remote monitoring has salience with its potential to inform professional maintenance services. This is not without cost. To justify its use in rural water service delivery remote monitoring must generate benefits for service providers: (1) it must be integrated into management systems, and help redesign them; (2) it must contribute to increases in performance that produce real improvement in outcomes for water users; (3) it must open up new transparent sources of funding previously unavailable to the rural water sector. If remote monitoring can do these three things it has a role to play in achieving SDG 6.1; if not it will join the list of development techno‐fixes that failed to make an impact despite the best of intentions.

中文翻译：

农村供水系统的远程监控：改善绩效和可持续性的途径？

移动电话网络在几乎没有其他基础设施的农村地区的存在开辟了自动监控农村供水系统的前景，以前只有亲自亲自或徒步才可能实现。监视这些系统的技术正在不断发展：基本系统正在研究中，并在可操作的WASH程序中实施；机器学习使泵故障预测成为可能。随着以前的以基础设施为中心的社区管理模式向农村水的服务提供方式的转变，远程监控具有显着的潜力，可以为专业维护服务提供信息。这并非没有代价。为了证明其在农村供水服务中的使用合理性，远程监控必须为服务提供商带来好处：（1）必须将其集成到管理系统中，并帮助对其进行重新设计；（2）它必须有助于提高绩效，从而为用水者带来真正的成果改善；（3）必须开辟新的透明的资金来源，这是农村水务部门以前无法获得的。如果远程监控可以做到这三件事，它就可以在实现SDG 6.1中发挥作用；如果不是这样，它将加入开发技术修补程序列表，尽管有最好的意图，但这些修补程序都没有产生影响。

更新日期：2021-02-05

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