InnoCentive Announces Launch of Water Sensor Challenge

InnoCentive, Inc., the global leader in open innovation, crowdsourcing, and prize competitions, today announced the launch of a new Challenge, Real-Time Sensor to Monitor Sewer Overflows, seeking ideas for a new generation of low-cost, low-maintenance sensors to monitor sewer overflows. This $10,000 Ideation Challenge is being offered through the partnership of Cincinnati Innovates, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Cincinnati Metropolitan Sewer District and Northern Kentucky Sewer District 1.

The ability to effectively collect real-time information from these locations is key to reducing sewer overflows in urban areas such as Greater Cincinnati. The lack of cost-effective technologies to monitor such overflows often makes data collection efforts in these areas inefficient and unsuccessful. This Challenge seeks ideas for an efficient, low-cost and low-maintenance real-time sensor to monitor sewer overflows and characterize the impact of wet weather on urban sewers."EPA supports this challenge in partnership with Confluence, the water technology innovation cluster in the Greater Cincinnati region," said Sally Gutierrez, director of U.S. EPA's Environmental Technology Innovation Cluster Program. "Billions of gallons of raw sewage and storm water runoff pollute our waterways each year. This Challenge is a great way to engage members of the water technology sector to foster collaboration, innovation, and create economic opportunity, while solving current, pressing human health and environmental issues like water pollution."

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