Context
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) is charged with providing water to millions
of people worldwide. In addition to the daunting
logistics of delivering fresh water to refugees, the
agency is charged with monitoring water supplies and
paying the entities that deliver the water to refugee
sites in many countries. Water trucking can be a
fast method of providing a refugee population with
access to life-saving quantities of safe drinking water.
However, water trucking operations can be inefficient,
expensive, time-consuming to administer and hard to
monitor.
Challenge
In its ongoing search for reliable water monitoring and
delivery programs, UNHCR was determined to find
a ground-level solution that provides accurate and
efficient data about quality and quantity of the water
Kerlink Wirnet
TM
Station
Kerlink Gateways and LoRaWAN
®
Network Delivering
Water-Monitoring Systems at UN Refugee Camps
"The LoRaWAN
®
IoT technology is mature, extremely cost effective and scalable. The static reservoir-monitoring
technology works extremely well."
Ryan Schweitzer, United Nations HCR Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Officer
Company name: GreenCityZen
Headquarters: Marseille, FRANCE
Year founded: 2015
Industry use Case: Smart Metering
Organisation name: UNHCR
Headquarters: Geneva, SWITZERLAND
Year founded: 1950
Role : High Commissioner for Refugees
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