Web-Based Platform for Automated Real Time Environmental Monitoring Demonstrated
June 2011
Dan Tyler and Steve Airhart of Freestone Environmental Services, Inc., collaborated with Groundswell Technologies, Inc. in authoring an article published in the Summer 2011 issue of Remediation Journal. The article describes an innovative, web-based, data management platform named Waiora, and its applicability to environmental remediation projects. Freestone has worked with Groundswell (http://www.groundswelltech.com), the developer of the Waiora platform to add new features and demonstrate its performance in acquiring and processing real-time and historical data at a large groundwater remediation project.
Environmental monitoring, data processing, and reporting methods are expensive, labor and resource-intensive, time-consuming, and often inaccurate. The Waiora platform integrates environmental monitoring sensors, telemetry, complex databases, geographical information systems, models, and geostatistical algorithms to provide easy point and click access to real-time data and apply powerful data analysis and visualization tools. Waiora automatically generates contour maps and time-stamped renderings of sensor attributes and multivariate analyses. Algorithms converting sensor-derived head and solute concentration values allow for automated monitoring of mass flux and discharge to evaluate groundwater remediation system performance and contaminant discharges from aquifers to surface-water receptors. The platform provides an opportunity to reduce remediation project life-cycle costs and carbon footprints by minimizing the energy and labor expenditures associated with transportation, data collection, laboratory efforts, report generation, and information dissemination.
New Publication: Kram, M., S. Airhart, D. Tyler, A. Dindal, A. Barton, J. McKernan, and G. Gustafson, 2011. Web-Based Automated Remediation Performance Monitoring and Visualization of Contaminant Mass Flux and Discharge, in Remediation Journal, Volume 21, Number 3, Summer 2011.
Posted June 24, 2011