Abstract
The present paper proposes a mobile prototype platform, based on Augmented Reality and multimedia smart-phone technology, which operates on a combination of real environment and computer-generated data in order to increase the human perception of a scene in real time. By enhancing visible details and displaying invisible or inexistent objects, this platform could improve water monitoring activities as well as the understanding of physical processes by technical and non-technical mobile workforces. At the same time, such a tool might support decision-makers in choosing strategies and actions aimed at forecasting, preventing, and mitigating environmental risks. A preliminary validation of the prototype performance was carried out in the field of water management, specifically for sample basin of Southern Italy. During the testing phase, this innovative application showed its ability to speed up field surveys, easily move around in unknown or remote places, and allow the employment of less-specialised users. These results could help reduce the time and costs of water monitoring activities, which would be perceived as essential by local administrators, contributing thus to the safeguard and the correct use of water resources.
Highlights
Correct water management is fundamental to improve policies of its usage, reduce leakages, and combine prevention and defence actions against potential environmental degradation and disasters
The present paper proposes a mobile prototype platform, based on Augmented Reality and multimedia smart-phone technology, which operates on a combination of real environment and computer-generated data in order to increase the human perception of a scene in real time
Almost all the information is processed on computers, for example through the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the visualisation of spatial and environmental data during field surveys still demands the use of conventional maps and reports
Summary
Correct water management is fundamental to improve policies of its usage, reduce leakages, and combine prevention and defence actions against potential environmental degradation and disasters. There are more than 748 million people who cannot use drinking water with continuity, and almost 55% of irrigation water and a third of that for domestic use and industrial production is currently lost, due to a real material lack, but mainly to inefficient distribution and use [1]. It is in this context that resource protection, control, and management actions are fundamental to eliminate problems such as water over-exploitation and pollution, as well as to reduce the inefficiency of the supply systems. Almost all the information is processed on computers, for example through the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the visualisation of spatial and environmental data during field surveys still demands the use of conventional maps and reports
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