Designing a rapidly deployable and nationally scalable rain sensor network based on mobile wireless handsets

College

Gokongwei College of Engineering

Department/Unit

Electronics And Communications Engg

Document Type

Archival Material/Manuscript

Abstract

We propose a fresh approach to the design of a scalable and rapidly deployable wireless rain monitoring network. The system is based on power monitoring functions built into all cellular mobile handsets. Preliminary measurements using these sensors, during a major hurricane and the days following, demonstrate their suitability for real time monitoring of rain events at spatial scales of 1 to tens of kilometers. In principle, the sensor network dimensions are limited only by the size of the as-deployed mobile wireless infrastructure.

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Disciplines

Systems and Communications

Keywords

Rain and rainfall—Measurement; Wireless sensor networks

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