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Ryan Jebaraj, Loyola – ICAM College of Engineering and Technology (LICET); Nafeela Banu ,Loyola – ICAM College of Engineering and Technology (LICET); Rufina Fernandez ,Loyola – ICAM College of Engineering and Technology (LICET)

The coastal regions of India is both ecologically and economically rich and is home to 60% of the population. However the coastal waters are highly polluted due to industrial effluents, agriculture runoff and domestic waste and unlike the developed countries there is not much information on the health and status of the coastal waters. Internet of Things (IoT) is a concept that envisions all objects around us as part of internet and Cloud computing is a model for on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable resources (e.g. compute, networks, servers, storage, applications, services, and software) that can be easily provisioned as Infrastructure (IaaS), software and applications (SaaS) . A combination of data buoys installed along the major beaches of India along with cloud technology would make data on tides, rip currents and pollutant load accessible to beach goers. Data buoys with sensors would have to be deployed along the Indian coast to collect data on the oceanographic, physio-chemical and biological parameters of the coastal waters. The data collected by these buoys would then be transmitted to a public or hybrid cloud through satellite transmission protocols. Cloud apps and mobile cloud computing apps can be developed to disseminate information on beach water quality and safety to the public. In this paper we propose a novel IoT and cloud based monitoring system wherein the cloud acts as a front end to access Internet of Things that assimilates data from real time water quality data buoys and provides a mobile client with which the user can access data on the Coastal waters throughout the country, thereby reducing the health hazard and ensuring safety of the beach goers.