ML Team Lead
Working with the North Devon Biosphere, IGI has produced a first experimental dashboard integrating data from biosphere sensors and South West Water ...
To explore some of the challenges of working with near real-time sensor data, and integrating a range of data feeds in a common dashboard we have created a simple water quality dashboard. Our primary focus was on exploring the challenges and existing tools for creating such a system. The result is not intended to be fully operational and has highlighted some challenges and opportunities. You can visit the dashboard here.
The first version, which is currently live uses a very simple file store (using Parquet files) to manage the sensor data, and can be rather slow to load. We are actively working on this. The front end uses the Shiny for Python dashboarding tool. While this offers a lot of features out of the box, it can be challenging to extend beyond the templates provided as examples. Moving forward we will be exploring other dashboard building options.
The data presented on the dashboard includes water quality data, water depths, rainfall, soil conditions and storm sewer overflow information. We have plans to extend this exploratory prototype to provide a database driven backend, and include other elements for exploring relationships between the variables and integrating other sample based data.
