Pilot 14 Validates IoT-Based Verification for Water Treatment Carbon Credits
Geneva, Switzerland, and Boulder, CO – The Gold Standard Carbon Credit Registry has approved Virridy's Pilot 14 under its Digital Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (dMRV) Pilot Programme. The decision validates Virridy's IoT-based approach to monitoring institutional water treatment projects in Rwanda, marking a milestone for digital verification in the water-carbon sector.
Pilot 14, the Virridy Institutional Water Treatment Project in Rwanda, demonstrates that real-time IoT sensor data can replace traditional periodic site visits for monitoring and verifying carbon credit-generating water programs.
The HECTOR Monitoring System
At the core of Pilot 14 is Virridy's HECTOR system, which actively monitors and documents water supply and discharge across all project sites using IoT-enabled telemetry. The system provides:
- Daily timestamped records of water supply and usage
- Visual validation and cross-verification of sensor data
- Automated anomaly flagging for quality assurance
- Proactive intervention capabilities based on real-time data
The system achieved a greater than 98% device data capture rate and a post-cleaning error rate of less than 0.5%, fully digitizing the monitoring requirements of the Gold Standard methodology.
Significance for the Carbon Market
Traditional carbon credit verification for water treatment programs relies on periodic household surveys and site visits, which are expensive, infrequent, and subject to recall bias. Virridy's approach replaces these with continuous, objective sensor data transmitted via satellite.
The Pilot 14 approval establishes a precedent for IoT-based digital MRV in the water sector, potentially enabling higher-integrity credits at lower verification costs across all water treatment carbon programs.
About Gold Standard's dMRV Programme
Gold Standard's Digital Measurement, Reporting, and Verification Pilot Programme evaluates innovative digital technologies that can improve the accuracy, transparency, and efficiency of carbon credit verification. Approved pilots demonstrate that digital approaches can meet or exceed the rigor of traditional monitoring methods.
About Virridy
Virridy specializes in water-focused carbon credit generation, leveraging digital monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) technologies to quantify water and climate benefits.