Counting Poo

Counting Poo
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Outline

This is a project via Nicola Greene to assist International NGO, Water for People with their work in Uganda.

The NGO install latrines in various urban and rural areas in Uganda. They have been having an issue with the fill rates of the latrines and are wanting to get real data on the use of the latrines. This means recoding visits to the latrines and counting the number of flushes made. Knowledge of the volume and weight of the deposits made each visit would be an added bonus.

A good overview of the problem and project is available here: http://www.slideshare.net/NicolaGreene/nicola-greene-msc-introduction-slideshare-28634508 For more on why sanitation is important: http://www.wateraid.org/uk/what-we-do/the-crisis/sanitation?gclid=CNm0p7nz67sCFQPmwgodFRYAug

The device must be:

• Robust
• Easy to install on existing equipment
• Low cost ($50-$200 budget per unit)

Hackday 11/1/14

Objectives: Produce a prototype to monitor a 'flush' event and record that data.