Butgereit, L2012-03-092012-03-092011-10Butgereit, L. Dam that social networking: connecting South Africa's major dams to social media. The Sixth ICPCA Conference, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 26-28 October 2011978-1-4577-0209-9http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=6106470http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5633© 2011 EEE. This is the pre-print version of the work. Reprinted, with permission, from Butgereit, L. Dam that social networking: connecting South Africa's major dams to social media. The Sixth ICPCA Conference, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 26-28 October 2011. This material is posted here with permission of the IEEE. Such permission of the IEEE does not in any way imply IEEE endorsement of any of CSIR Information Services' products or services. Internal or personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution must be obtained from the IEEE by writing to pubs-permissions@ieee.org. By choosing to view this document, you agree to all provisions of the copyright laws protecting it.South Africa is a semi-arid country and water resources need to be monitored. The Internet of Things is the phenomenon of more and more things (as opposed to people and services) becoming connected to the Internet. This paper describes a project where four major South African dams are connected to Twitter and Facebook (and other social media such as MXit and Google Chat) in a mechanism which would be easy to replicate for additional dams or rivers. Data is supplied by the South African Department of Water Affairs. Beachcomber (a Mobicents based JEE application) routes the data to appropriate service building blocks and resource adaptors to ensure that the information is widely disseminated.enSocial networksDamsTwitterFacebookMXitGoogle ChatConference PresentationButgereit, L. (2011). Dam that social networking: connecting South Africa's major dams to social media. IEEE. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5633Butgereit, L. "Dam that social networking: connecting South Africa's major dams to social media." (2011): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5633Butgereit L, Dam that social networking: connecting South Africa's major dams to social media; IEEE; 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5633 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Butgereit, L AB - South Africa is a semi-arid country and water resources need to be monitored. The Internet of Things is the phenomenon of more and more things (as opposed to people and services) becoming connected to the Internet. This paper describes a project where four major South African dams are connected to Twitter and Facebook (and other social media such as MXit and Google Chat) in a mechanism which would be easy to replicate for additional dams or rivers. Data is supplied by the South African Department of Water Affairs. Beachcomber (a Mobicents based JEE application) routes the data to appropriate service building blocks and resource adaptors to ensure that the information is widely disseminated. DA - 2011-10 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Social networks KW - Dams KW - Twitter KW - Facebook KW - MXit KW - Google Chat LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2011 SM - 978-1-4577-0209-9 T1 - Dam that social networking: connecting South Africa's major dams to social media TI - Dam that social networking: connecting South Africa's major dams to social media UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5633 ER -