Paper Info
Title
Mobile phone supported water dispensing system for the "un-watered" population
Abstract
Mobile phone penetration and its applications in Africa is one of the surprising phenomena of modern technology. Traditionally known to be facing myriads of challenges, today's African innovators, especially the youth, have leveraged on the continent's mobile revolution to come up with disruptive solutions to some of the continent's challenges. This paper looks at the challenges facing Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) services among the rural population and the urban poor who do not have access to piped water supply in Kenya and proposes the use of a simple technology that is supported by the application of mobile money transfer services to improve payment and delivery of water to these segments of the population. We apply smart water metering using Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) systems integrated with the popular mobile banking system in Kenya, M-Pesa to deliver efficient utilization of water resources and also employ a business model that ensures sustainability of the water supply system.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2015
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2015 12TH IEEE AFRICON INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - GREEN INNOVATION FOR AFRICAN RENAISSANCE (AFRICON)
mWASH,Water,mobile Banking,Adavnced Metering Infrastructure,Smart metering
Field
DocType
ISSN
Population,Mobile payment,Telecommunications,Sanitation,Computer security,Control engineering,Engineering,Mobile phone,Water resources,Mobile banking,Payment,Water supply
Conference
2153-0025
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Odira Elisha Abade142.27
oromo geoffrey alex200.34