Photonic Sensors, Volume. 5, Issue 4, 289(2015)

Early Warning Smartphone Diagnostics for Water Security and Analysis Using Real-Time pH Mapping

Md. Arafat HOSSAIN1,2, John CANNING1,3,3、*, Sandra AST3, Peter J. RUTLEDGE3, and Abbas JAMALIPOUR2
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  • 1interdisciplinary Photonics Laboratories (iPL), School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
  • 2Wireless Networking Group (WiNG), School of Electrical and Information Engineering, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
  • 3School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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    Early detection of environmental disruption, unintentional or otherwise, is increasingly desired to ensure hazard minimization in many settings. Here, using a field-portable, smartphone fluorimeter to assess water quality based on the pH response of a designer probe, a map of pH of public tap water sites has been obtained. A custom designed Android application digitally processed and mapped the results utilizing the global positioning system (GPS) service of the smartphone. The map generated indicates no disruption in pH for all sites measured, and all the data are assessed to fall inside the upper limit of local government regulations, consistent with authority reported measurements. This implementation demonstrates a new security concept: network environmental forensics utilizing the potential of novel smartgrid analysis with wireless sensors for the detection of potential disruption to water quality at any point in the city. This concept is applicable across all smartgrid strategies within the next generation of the Internet of Things and can be extended on national and global scales to address a range of target analytes, both chemical and biological.

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    Md. Arafat HOSSAIN, John CANNING, Sandra AST, Peter J. RUTLEDGE, Abbas JAMALIPOUR. Early Warning Smartphone Diagnostics for Water Security and Analysis Using Real-Time pH Mapping[J]. Photonic Sensors, 2015, 5(4): 289

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    Paper Information

    Received: Apr. 12, 2015

    Accepted: Jun. 5, 2015

    Published Online: Jan. 6, 2016

    The Author Email: CANNING John (john.canning@sydney.edu.au)

    DOI:10.1007/s13320-015-0256-x

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