PANAJI
The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) will soon have a centralised online monitoring facility to have real-time environmental data pertaining to air, water, and noise pollution of more than 2000 industrial units in one go.
The Board has approved to float a tender for development of Digital Portal and Dashboard for Online Continuous Real Time Data Acquisition System for Continuous Emission Monitoring System, Continuous Effluent Monitoring System, Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring System, Continuous Noise Monitoring National Water Quality Monitoring Programme and National Air Quality Monitoring Programme.
“This portal will enable highly scalable systems that can connect more than 2,000 or all available industries/units of Goa, engaged in online monitoring with all the sites simultaneously in real-time with a non-proprietary, highly scalable back-end database suitable for storing time series data,” the board said in the minutes of its meeting.
The dashboard will collect real-time pollution monitoring data from all industrial units in Goa. The server will be operational within six months, the GSPCB told the service provider, who will be paid Rs 85 lakh for the work.
The Union ministry of electronics and information technology, under the National Air Quality Monitoring Programme and the National Water Quality Monitoring Programme, requires States to carry out continuous noise monitoring, ambient air quality monitoring, effluent monitoring, and emission monitoring.
All this data is to be deployed on the empanelled cloud server of the ministry and managed by a bidder under the ownership of the GSPCB.
Accordingly, a work order will be issued to create a digital portal and dashboard for a continuous online monitoring system for Goa.
