Mobile application with Augmented Reality for drinking water valves location.

Abstract

The Potable Water and Sewerage Public Company of Azogues (EMAPAL E.P.) registers losses of 58.46% on its annual production due to leaks on its infrastructure, which, in monetary terms, can be translated into a loss of $ 740,076.48 per year. Although different techniques and procedures have been developed to minimize losses and to detect water leaks, this is a common problem in developing countries. The purpose of this work is to implement a mobile application using Augmented Reality (AR) as a technique for collecting primary information in navigation, so as to timely locate isolation valves of the distribution system, in order to repair the damages caused by water leakage. The application was developed with the Apache Cordova free and open source framework, which combines the HTML, CSS, Javascript and nativas web technologies of the mobile device’s platform. As a result, an application that constantly captures information from the environment, augmenting the information of reality by using geo-referenced labels on the device’s screen, was obtained. These labels are retrieved from the Spatialite-Android geographic database, embedded in the device. The use of location Based System (LBS) with RA for valves location, has evidenced a 32% improvement in this process.