Water Care: Water Surface Cleaning Bot and Water Body Surveillance System
Harsh Sankar Naicker, Yash Srivastava, Akshara Pramod, Niket Paresh, Ganatra, Deepakshi Sood, Saumya Singh, Velmathi Guruviah

TL;DR
This paper presents a solar-powered water surface cleaning robot with computer vision for trash detection and a surveillance system with virtual fencing to prevent pollution, aiming to improve water body cleanliness and safety.
Contribution
It introduces a novel integrated system combining a water cleaning robot with surveillance and preventive measures using virtual fencing and mobile/web apps.
Findings
Effective trash detection using computer vision.
Successful deployment of solar-powered cleaning bot.
Implementation of virtual fencing for pollution prevention.
Abstract
Whenever a person hears about pollution, more often than not, the first thought that comes to their mind is air pollution. One of the most under-mentioned and under-discussed pollution globally is that caused by the non-biodegradable waste in our water bodies. In the case of India, there is a lot of plastic waste on the surface of rivers and lakes. The Ganga river is one of the 10 rivers which account for 90 percent of the plastic that ends up in the sea and there are major cases of local nalaas and lakes being contaminated due to this waste. This limits the source of clean water which leads to major depletion in water sources. From 2001 to 2012, in the city of Hyderabad, 3245 hectares of lakes dissipated. The water recedes by nine feet a year on average in southern New Delhi. Thus, cleaning of these local water bodies and rivers is of utmost importance. Our aim is to develop a water…
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Taxonomy
TopicsWater Quality Monitoring Technologies · Smart Parking Systems Research · Water Governance and Infrastructure
