Designing With Web
Part 3 · Phase 1: Prototype

Group 8

Our group

Our subject

Our subject is Increase water recycling and safe reuse.
It comes from the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal number 6, which is entitled "Clean water and sanitation".

Our research question

The research question we have formulated together is "How to lessen the water waste and the water pollution in agriculture ?". The two projects ideas below try to answer that question.

Project 1 · WaterTracker

Context

When? Where? Who? Why? Explain the specific context of your project.

This project is designed for the whole water conversation lifecycle in agriculture, focusing on 2 key topics: A. Escalate the water usage efficiency and lessen water waste; B. Monitor potential water pollution risks in different water use nodes and empower water quality control. The project provides dashboards, notifications and features connected to external IoT sensors, devices and irrigation management systems for 5 key nodes in the water conversation lifecycle for a private agriculture enterprise: A. inflow B. water storage, C. irrigation and other water utility scenarios, D. internal water transportation and water quality sensing, E. water reuse in different locations within a agriculture enterprise such as water tanks, pipes, water quality testing stations and lands to be irrigated.

The project is designed for agricultural practitioners including but not limited to farmers, agricultural engineers, enterprise management teams, external testers, relevant individuals from government and other institutions.

New technologies and farming practices related to water conversation can help improve water utilization and efficiency, decrease risks of water pollution. This project is aiming to provide visualized dashboards to help agriculture practitioners track and monitor datas collected through multiple IoT sensors and timely notifications on leaking, pollution, water storage status, etc..

Target + persona

For whom? Describe the users and beneficiaries of your project, and then suggest a quick persona (refer to Part 2 of the course for methodology tips).

Users: farmers, agricultural engineers, enterprise management teams, external testers, relevant individuals from government and other institutions.

Beneficiaries: On private sector: the project helps enterprises to maximize the water utilization, increase land sustainability, and maintain a better water utility and conversation practice. On public sector: the collected data helps agricultural administrations understand the water conversation status, engage to build up a water management ecosystem. Its flexible operations, useful features, multitasking, multithreading, plug-and-play help related individuals to monitor remotely and timely. Less polluted water benefits a larger geographic area in which the farms locate.

Persona

Service offered

What? How? Explain how your solution works, what it enables the user to do, and how is solves the initial issue.

With IoT sensors, devices and irrigation management systems, this app provides 3 main functions:

1. Water utility plan. Users can view historical and anticipated water utility, today’s water consumption and details of different zone(users can add land zones, draw geographic fences and define the type of plants, their irrigation needs in different stages, pesticides and chemical fertilizer status)

2. Water transportation and storage. Users can view basically 4 modules: leaking monitoring, anti-seepage monitoring, water capacity and quality of reused water.

3. Water pollution monitoring. Users can view real-time data concerning pesticide, heavy mental, fertilizer, etc.., with their details and historical data. Users could also set values of each pollutant, their detailed information and set a excessive warning via SMS or notification.

Features + user flow

Explain what features your project involves and hierarchize them from the most important one to the least. Remember: a feature is a verb + a noun, it describes an action that the user can do.

Then, for your first and most important feature (the key feature), write down and draw the user flow: what steps will the user have to go through, from the initial situation to the final situation? Again, refer to Part 2 of the course for methodological tips.

Features

User flow

User flow

Illustrations

Find pictures that describe the universe around your service (context, users, places, technologies…). Don't try to illustrate the final service that you may have in mind but instead, its context. Basically, translate the keywords you used in the descriptions above to pictures.

Benchmark

List competitors or related projects, and describe how they relate or differentiate to your project.

References

Books, films, articles… list every reference that may be relevant regarding this project, and explain why.

Project 2 · Efficient Water

Context

When? Where? Who? Why? Explain the specific context of your project.

Our goal is an system used by the government to know how much water is being, used and how much water is being released by each farmer. The water pollution is being measured too. If too much water is being used or if the water is more polluted, the farmer is being fined. This works as an incentive for the farmers to use water more efficiently.

Approximately 70% of the world's fresh water consumption is used for agricultural production. However, in many countries, water efficiency is less than 50%. Nuclear and isotopic techniques can provide data on water use, including losses through soil evaporation, and help optimize irrigation plans and improve water use efficiency.

FAO predicts that by 2050, in order to meet the demand for food from population growth, global agricultural water demand will increase by 50%. Due to improper management, abuse, and climate change, global fresh water is becoming increasingly scarce. In many parts of the world, water shortages and water quality issues pose serious challenges to future food security and environmental sustainability. In order to solve these problems, so it is necessary to improve land use and water management.

This idea is about helping the government to establish a system to achieve the purpose of saving agricultural water.

Target + persona

For whom? Describe the users and beneficiaries of your project, and then suggest a quick persona (refer to Part 2 of the course for methodology tips).

Through our project, the government can understand farmers' water consumption in real time, and at the same time formulate corresponding management rules, so as to avoid agricultural water pollution and waste to the greatest extent.

Affected by factors such as population growth, pollution and climate change, the pressure of global water shortages is increasing. According to statistics, in the past 20 years, the global per capita fresh water supply has decreased by more than 20%. Facing the challenge of water shortage, many countries have carried out successful practices to improve water resources management. Improving integrated water resources management strategies and technologies has become the top priority in solving water resource crises.

Service offered

What? How? Explain how your solution works, what it enables the user to do, and how is solves the initial issue.

As the world's second largest agricultural exporter, France has a very representative survey of its water consumption. This project intends to summarize agricultural water use information in major regions of France, as well as global articles and papers on agricultural water-saving management. Farmers can also discuss technologies or policies here to form an open discussion community. It can be used as a reference for the government to make policy.

Features + user flow

Explain what features your project involves and hierarchize them from the most important one to the least. Remember: a feature is a verb + a noun, it describes an action that the user can do.

Then, for your first and most important feature (the key feature), write down and draw the user flow: what steps will the user have to go through, from the initial situation to the final situation? Again, refer to Part 2 of the course for methodological tips.

Features

User flow

Illustrations

Find pictures that describe the universe around your service (context, users, places, technologies…). Don't try to illustrate the final service that you may have in mind but instead, its context. Basically, translate the keywords you used in the descriptions above to pictures.

Benchmark

List competitors or related projects, and describe how they relate or differentiate to your project.

References

Books, films, articles… list every reference that may be relevant regarding this project, and explain why.