Smart Water Assessment Network (SWAN)

2018: Announcement

On January 31, 2018 it became known that scientists from the National University of Singapore created the intelligent self-directed drone under the name Smart Water Assessment Network (SWAN). These robots in the form of swans check extent of pollution, quality of drinking water and its temperature in coastal waters of Singapore and allow researchers to collect data, without frightening people by the normal sea drones having quite frightening appearance.

SWAN robots swans began to be used for quality check of water in Signapur

According to the portal TechCrunch, SWAN is an innovation concept of spatio-temporal monitoring of water quality. The robot is the economic complete solution which is most using the available resources. He has an esthetic appearance and protects tranquility of citizens. Its capability collect data according to a specific purpose in real time allows to perform interactive selection in any place interesting researchers.

Using the probes installed in the bottom of robots swans it is possible to obtain data on physical and biological parameters of water. The robot swan is capable to float to execute in a standalone mode for hours high-speed sounding for studying of concentration gradients for the purpose of quality improvement and efficiency of detection of the active points changing in time. After data collection the device transfers data to a cloud in real time where there is their aggregation and the analysis.

"Swans" are used for quality check of water in water reservoirs of Singapore. Their construction allows to maintain possible collisions with boats and other dangers of sea elements. Robots swans are used because it is much more difficult to collect samples using the boat. These "swans" can long float, from time to time collecting the necessary samples practically without intervention of the person and as scientists assume, they will not frighten off these swans.^[1]

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