A smart, portable water purification and monitoring device that measures pH, turbidity, TDS, and temperature, purifies contaminated water, and sends real-time alerts for rural communities.
Governmcnt of Jharkhand · Department of Higher & Technical Education · Hardware
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Water Sensor Module
Measures key parameters including pH, turbidity, TDS, and temperature in real time.
Filtration Unit
Employs multi-stage purification technologies to remove suspended particles, minerals, and pathogens.
IoT and Alert System
Sends real-time water quality insights and generates alerts when water is unsafe for drinking.
Power Management
Operates efficiently in remote areas with limited infrastructure.
Both columns are read off the brief's own wording. Nothing here is inferred from the ministry's name.
The jury will check if your physical prototype can measure pH, turbidity, TDS, and temperature, purify the water effectively, and generate real-time alerts for unsafe conditions.
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What specific purification technologies or filters should be used?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.
What the target cost or production budget is?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.
What specific communication network will be used for IoT alerts in remote areas?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.
Has any part of this been shown at a previous event, hackathon or college project?
The guidelines are explicit: your solution must not have appeared in any previous event or programme, of any sort. A recycled project is what a team under time pressure reaches for.
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Needs physical hardware
Listed as a hardware problem statement, so a working demo needs physical components you have to source yourself.
No measurable target
The description asks for an affordable and cost-effective system but never states a specific target price or maximum impurity level threshold.
What the organisers attached, and what the brief assumes you can get.
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Who has this problem, what already exists, and what you would have to find out.
The brief asks for water sensor module. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26040 itself — Measures key parameters including pH, turbidity, TDS, and temperature in real time. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for filtration unit. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26040 itself — Employs multi-stage purification technologies to remove suspended particles, minerals, and pathogens. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for iot and alert system. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26040 itself — Sends real-time water quality insights and generates alerts when water is unsafe for drinking. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for power management. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26040 itself — Operates efficiently in remote areas with limited infrastructure. The brief asks for it by name.
Where does your data come from — a published source, one you collect, or one you generate?
No dataset is attached to this problem statement, so sourcing it is part of the work and nobody told you that.
Why not use what already exists? Name the closest thing to this that is already running.
A team that has not named the alternative themselves is answering this for the first time in the room.
Which single thing will you demonstrate end to end, start to finish, with nothing skipped?
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Show me this working: the jury will check if your physical prototype can measure pH, turbidity, TDS, and temperature, purify the water effectively, and generate real-time alerts for unsafe conditions.
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