{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4411447166","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/percomworkshops65533.2025.00149","title":"AquaCam: An ML-Enhanced Low-Cost, Deploy-Anywhere Water Level Detection Sensor","display_name":"AquaCam: An ML-Enhanced Low-Cost, Deploy-Anywhere Water Level Detection Sensor","publication_year":2025,"publication_date":"2025-03-17","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W4411447166","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1109/percomworkshops65533.2025.00149"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1109/percomworkshops65533.2025.00149","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/percomworkshops65533.2025.00149","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"2025 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops)","raw_type":"proceedings-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5118571773","display_name":"Jacob Latham","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I63920570","display_name":"Tennessee Technological University","ror":"https://ror.org/05drmrq39","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I63920570"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Jacob Latham","raw_affiliation_strings":["Tennessee Technological University,Department of Computer Science"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Tennessee Technological University,Department of Computer Science","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I63920570"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5118337124","display_name":"Grace Dadzie","orcid":null},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I63920570","display_name":"Tennessee Technological University","ror":"https://ror.org/05drmrq39","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I63920570"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Grace Dadzie","raw_affiliation_strings":["Tennessee Technological University,Department of Computer Science"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Tennessee Technological University,Department of Computer Science","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I63920570"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5063260901","display_name":"Alfred Kalyanapu","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7746-3121"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I63920570","display_name":"Tennessee Technological University","ror":"https://ror.org/05drmrq39","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I63920570"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Alfred Kalyanapu","raw_affiliation_strings":["Tennessee Technological University,Electrical and Computer Engineering"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Tennessee Technological University,Electrical and Computer Engineering","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I63920570"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5013575880","display_name":"Susmit Shannigrahi","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6213-7473"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I63920570","display_name":"Tennessee Technological University","ror":"https://ror.org/05drmrq39","country_code":"US","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I63920570"]}],"countries":["US"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Susmit Shannigrahi","raw_affiliation_strings":["Tennessee Technological University,Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Tennessee Technological University,Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I63920570"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":4,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5118571773"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I63920570"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.8828,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":1,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.75904753,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":97,"max":99},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"628","last_page":"632"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12697","display_name":"Water Quality Monitoring Technologies","score":0.9965999722480774,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2312","display_name":"Water Science and Technology"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/23","display_name":"Environmental Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T12697","display_name":"Water Quality Monitoring Technologies","score":0.9965999722480774,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2312","display_name":"Water Science and Technology"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/23","display_name":"Environmental Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11192","display_name":"Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems","score":0.987500011920929,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2212","display_name":"Ocean Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10080","display_name":"Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks","score":0.9280999898910522,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1705","display_name":"Computer Networks and Communications"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.5345548391342163},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/environmental-science","display_name":"Environmental science","score":0.3474804759025574}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.5345548391342163},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C39432304","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188847","display_name":"Environmental science","level":0,"score":0.3474804759025574}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1109/percomworkshops65533.2025.00149","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1109/percomworkshops65533.2025.00149","pdf_url":null,"source":null,"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"2025 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops)","raw_type":"proceedings-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[{"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/7","score":0.6100000143051147,"display_name":"Affordable and clean energy"}],"awards":[],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320306076","display_name":"National Science Foundation","ror":"https://ror.org/021nxhr62"}],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":12,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W2051584572","https://openalex.org/W2061806544","https://openalex.org/W2166346806","https://openalex.org/W2554343814","https://openalex.org/W2740913646","https://openalex.org/W2766152471","https://openalex.org/W3049213504","https://openalex.org/W3093708112","https://openalex.org/W4398756379","https://openalex.org/W6678552747","https://openalex.org/W6745589295","https://openalex.org/W6964791771"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4391375266","https://openalex.org/W2899084033","https://openalex.org/W2748952813","https://openalex.org/W2390279801","https://openalex.org/W4391913857","https://openalex.org/W2358668433","https://openalex.org/W4396701345","https://openalex.org/W2376932109","https://openalex.org/W2001405890","https://openalex.org/W4396696052"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Flood":[0],"detection":[1,30,50],"is":[2,139],"problematic,":[3],"especially":[4],"in":[5],"rural":[6],"areas":[7,18],"with":[8],"limited":[9],"or":[10],"nonexistent":[11],"monitoring":[12],"infrastructure.":[13],"Smaller":[14],"streams":[15,66],"and":[16,34,57,72,96,141,158],"flood-prone":[17],"frequently":[19],"go":[20],"unmonitored,":[21],"leaving":[22],"these":[23],"regions":[24],"vulnerable":[25],"to":[26,39,60,89,102],"flooding.":[27],"Commercial":[28],"flood":[29,49,151],"systems":[31],"are":[32],"expensive":[33],"proprietary,":[35],"making":[36,153],"them":[37],"inaccessible":[38],"many":[40],"communities.In":[41],"this":[42],"work,":[43],"we":[44,108,145],"present":[45],"AquaCam\u2014a":[46],"low-cost,":[47],"open-source":[48],"system":[51,130],"that":[52,136,163],"uses":[53],"a":[54,58,74,114,147],"Raspberry":[55],"Pi":[56],"camera":[59],"measure":[61,97],"the":[62,81,87,126,129,161],"water":[63,92,98,133],"level":[64],"of":[65],"automatically.":[67],"AquaCam":[68,100],"autonomously":[69],"captures":[70],"data":[71],"trains":[73],"lightweight":[75],"convolutional":[76],"neural":[77],"network":[78],"(YOLOv8)":[79],"using":[80],"collected":[82],"images.":[83],"This":[84],"training":[85],"enables":[86],"model":[88,112],"accurately":[90,131],"recognize":[91],"against":[93],"natural":[94],"backgrounds":[95],"height.Could":[99],"adapt":[101],"new":[103],"environments?":[104],"To":[105],"find":[106],"out,":[107],"tested":[109],"our":[110,137],"trained":[111],"at":[113],"completely":[115],"different":[116],"site":[117],"without":[118],"any":[119],"additional":[120],"retraining.":[121],"The":[122],"results":[123],"were":[124],"promising\u2014despite":[125],"location":[127],"change,":[128],"identified":[132],"levels,":[134],"proving":[135],"approach":[138],"practical":[140],"generalizable.":[142],"With":[143],"AquaCam,":[144],"take":[146],"step":[148],"toward":[149],"democratizing":[150],"detection,":[152],"it":[154,165],"more":[155],"affordable,":[156],"accessible,":[157],"adaptable":[159],"for":[160],"communities":[162],"need":[164],"most.":[166]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-03-14T08:43:22.919905","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}