Designing With Web
Part 3 · Phase 1: Prototype

Group 21

Our group

Our subject

Our subject is Increasing water recycling and safe reuse.
It comes from the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal number 6, which is entitled "Clean Water and Sanitation".

Our research question

The research question we have formulated together is "How artificial intelligence can help cities and companies reduce costs, reduce environmental impact and be more efficient by improving water recycling?". The two projects ideas below try to answer that question.

Project 1 · Intelligent water management through AI

Context

When? Where? Who? Why?

Inside the European Union, one quarter of the total volume of water available is for agriculture, and mainly for irrigation. With global warming, water management is a crucial issue. Nevertheless, a report by the European Court of Auditors shows that throughout Europe, the agricultural sector is wasting this resource.
The key to water management in agriculture is to give exactly what a plant needs and not to overwater the plants.

Target + persona

For whom? Describe the users and beneficiaries of your project, and then suggest a quick persona (refer to Part 2 of the course for methodology tips).

The project is aimed in particular at farmers who wish to manage their water expenditure in a more controlled manner with the objective of protecting water resources. The innovation would allow at the same time to save water which is a rarefied resource,and would be a way to make financial savings for the farmers but also to bring the exact quantity of water for the plant and thus increased the quality of the production.

Persona

Service offered

What? How? Explain how your solution works, what it enables the user to do, and how is solves the initial issue.

To be able to give exactly the amount of water a plant needs, we have to cross several data. This is what our application would propose: we would propose an application that crosses data concerning the plant, the quantity of water it needs, its resistance to drought, etc., geographical data (land, region, close or not to a river,...) and meteorological data (the last rains, the forecast rains, the degree of drying of the soil according to the heat etc... Thanks to all these data the application could propose for each plot of the farmer's land the exact amount of water his plants need.

Features + user flow

Explain what features your project involves and hierarchize them from the most important one to the least. Remember: a feature is a verb + a noun, it describes an action that the user can do.

Then, for your first and most important feature (the key feature), write down and draw the user flow: what steps will the user have to go through, from the initial situation to the final situation? Again, refer to Part 2 of the course for methodological tips.

Features

User flow

Illustrations

Find pictures that describe the universe around your service (context, users, places, technologies…). Don't try to illustrate the final service that you may have in mind but instead, its context. Basically, translate the keywords you used in the descriptions above to pictures.

Benchmark

List competitors or related projects, and describe how they relate or differentiate to your project.

References

https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/73223 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opag-2020-0063/html

Project 2 · Transparency between treatment centers

Context

When? Where? Who? Why?

The second project aims to promote the transparency of information between the different water treatment centers, with the aim of facilitating the management of these centers and improving the quality of the water leaving the plant.

Target + persona

For whom? Describe the users and beneficiaries of your project, and then suggest a quick persona (refer to Part 2 of the course for methodology tips).

This company aims to set up between water treatment plants only. It will make the treatment more efficient and treat the water in the best possible way.

Persona

Service offered

What? How?

The aim would be to collect, for each water treatment center in France, 3 types of data: the weather conditions, the type and quantity of chemicals used to treat the water and the quality of the water leaving the factory.The objective is that, using this information, a treatment center in a city will look at this database and realize that a water treatment center in France has approximately the same weather conditions and has a high quality of water leaving the plant. Being in full reflection on the type and quantity of chemicals to use, the plant can take inspiration from this other plant and choose to use the same standards as it. With this application, treatment centers could eventually reduce the overuse of chemicals in water treatment and the quality of water leaving factories could be improved across France.

Features + user flow

Explain what features your project involves and hierarchize them from the most important one to the least. Remember: a feature is a verb + a noun, it describes an action that the user can do.

Then, for your first and most important feature (the key feature), write down and draw the user flow: what steps will the user have to go through, from the initial situation to the final situation? Again, refer to Part 2 of the course for methodological tips.

Features

User flow

(Add a drawing of the user flow for the key feature here)

Illustrations

Find pictures that describe the universe around your service (context, users, places, technologies…). Don't try to illustrate the final service that you may have in mind but instead, its context. Basically, translate the keywords you used in the descriptions above to pictures.

Benchmark

List competitors or related projects, and describe how they relate or differentiate to your project.

References

Books, films, articles… list every reference that may be relevant regarding this project, and explain why.