- Sun Feb 23, 2014 5:51 pm
#168775
Hey all,
My church has through the past 12 years drilled a significant number of water wells in Tanzania. Recently we have had the idea of tracking if the wells are operating on a semi regular basis, but the very wells that we need to track the most are also the ones that are the most remote, and don't have any sort of infrastructure.
I have a pretty good idea of how to track the up-time, a simple arduino based data logging system should be fine, but I don't know exactly how to get the data back to me to be usable here in the US. I was thinking of maybe using a GSM shield, but I have no idea how the cellular networks work over there, and I would hate to build the devices and not be able to retrieve the data. Can anyone shed some light?
My church has through the past 12 years drilled a significant number of water wells in Tanzania. Recently we have had the idea of tracking if the wells are operating on a semi regular basis, but the very wells that we need to track the most are also the ones that are the most remote, and don't have any sort of infrastructure.
I have a pretty good idea of how to track the up-time, a simple arduino based data logging system should be fine, but I don't know exactly how to get the data back to me to be usable here in the US. I was thinking of maybe using a GSM shield, but I have no idea how the cellular networks work over there, and I would hate to build the devices and not be able to retrieve the data. Can anyone shed some light?