Xia Liu

Xia Liu, project manager at AUG Signals said the environmental sensor will be a portable device inserted into the water system to check for contamination.Non-sensor information will be provided by the federal Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and collected through the Canadian Network for Public Health Intelligence - a PHAC network that fosters intelligence exchange, surveillance activities, and outbreak investigations.

"We are trying to find a way to digitize this data," said Liu, adding that this task would be done internally by AUG, and other data management vendors would not be involved.

The intelligent system will identify trends in water-borne diseases.It will do this by analyzing archived water quality data.Liu said AUG Signals has data mining tools that have been used in other projects.