Chennai's Madras Christian College has introduced a high-tech duck for monitoring the water quality of a lake located on its expansive 300-acre campus in Tambaram. This IoT-enabled, remote-controlled duck will traverse the lake, collecting real-time data on seven crucial parameters like water temperature, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, and pH. The lake is a vital water source within the campus and was cleared of sediment as part of a corporate social responsibility initiative by Bisleri International Limited. The company also provided funding for the development of a water quality monitoring prototype. A team from MCC-MRF Innovation Park designed a 3D-printed duck equipped with sensors and an accompanying app for data reception and analysis. Principal Paul Wilson emphasizes that the data gathered will inform decisions on lake conservation, aiding in the protection of campus ecology and wildlife. The duck's solar panels provide power, lasting up to two days without sunlight, with manual charging as a backup. The startup KOLOZEN, led by Kousik, created and operates the duck, which has been collecting and transmitting data for two weeks. There are plans to deploy similar ducks beyond the campus to monitor water bodies for local authorities. Researchers envision utilizing this data to track changes in water bodies during different seasons and rainfall, assess environmental health and diseases, and potentially develop a hydroinformatics platform. Professor T Pradeep from IIT Madras points out the vast potential of this collected data. Besides water quality monitoring, the MCC campus's scrub jungle is habitat to diverse wildlife, including spotted deer, porcupines, toddy cats, and bats."Cameras with sensors are used by the college to monitor the movements of wild animals on campus."