Tech to check river pollution

The Department of Science and Technology has partnered with technology firm Intel to develop a set of low-cost, autonomous technologies for monitoring river pollution. The Rs 33-crore partnership will seek to create technologies that require no power and no manual intervention to keep an eye on pollution round the clock.

“The kind of sensors we want to develop doesn’t exist. Cost will be a major consideration in developing these tiny sensors. We can think of deploying 10,000 of these sensors along a river,” DST secretary Ashutosh Sharma said after launching the initiative under the Indo-US science and technology forum.