<p>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.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“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.</p>
<p>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.<br /><br /></p>.<p>“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.</p>
