Project Leader: Le Quoc Hung
Recipient Institution: Institute of Chemistry, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology (VAST)
Amount: USD 30,000
Duration: 24 Months
Commencement Date: 2006

Project Abstract

Vietnam has a 3260 km long coastline, 112 estuaries, 1 million square kilometres of Exclusive Economic Zone and more than 4000 islands. With an abundant supply of water resources, the monitoring and management problems turn to management complication and expensiveness issues. Although Vietnam has attached a special importance to the work of
environmental protection, recently, but there is a lack of a real-time integrated water quality monitoring system, which monitors and controls the quality of water environment continuously and shares information in real-time system. Such kind of system is saving time and increasing yields. It is also useful for the catastrophic forecast like the erosion of salt water and the like.

This project is a next step to make use of ability of Institute of Chemistry of VAST, whereare, Since 1996 has invented and manufactured the Computerized Water Quality Measurement System (WQM) for large areas. This is a integrate system consisting of Global Positioning System (GPS), water quality checkers (WQC) such as HORIBA U-20, TOA 22A etc. This system has been being effectively used for water quality survey in Viet Nam and oversea (Canada, Argentina, Brazile...). In this project the system will be combined with data acquisition, data communication and web-based sharing information.
The measure data will be stored in the local memory, and automatically transmitted to the nearby center via a radio network. Information from each center, after a preliminary treatment, will be transmitted to the main server via Uplink connections and shared in the community.

The expected output of the project is a working tested model of an always-on system. This are included three module clients to monitor the water quality at specific positions in an estuary. A base system is used to control and communicate to those clients who have Uplink connections to the main server in order to sharing and analyzing the whole data
obtained from studied areas.