Solving water supply issues with IoT

What is it?

Gautam, born and raised in Bangalore, has a mission: bringing awareness to his country about climate issues. Experts foresee a terrible water crisis in Bangalore which will make the city inhabitable by 2025. To prevent that disaster, Gautam co-founded Reapbenefit: an 18-people non-profit-organization that “builds the next generation of problem solvers, by involving youth, to solve local environment and civic problems”.

As water is the crux of the issue, he decided on top of that to create himself a centralized water system that automatically and transparently adjust the water supply in each room of a house. Instead of running out of water, you’ll be able to see how much water it remains in your place thanks to an app “Watermeter” and you’ll have a regulated quantity of water in your different rooms, according to your needs.

How did he interact with the workshop?

As a Fab Academy student in Fab Lab CEPT, Gautam has been able to learn new techniques, to “get his hands dirty” as he says.

3D printer, laser cutter and Arduino are the main machines and materials used for his 1st prototype.

What are the next steps?

Gautam wants to empower people towards climate change thanks to his innovation. To do so, he’ll post all his documentation in opensource in the following months.