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

• Main Authors: Libatique, Nathaniel Joseph C., Tangonan, Gregory, Gustilo, Reggie C., Simpas, James Bernard B., Choy, R., Perri, E., Dy, C., De Leon, Gerardo D., Gonzalez, R.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2022
• Subjects: Rain and rainfall—Measurement; Wireless sensor networks; Systems and Communications
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/faculty_research/6208
• Institution: De La Salle University

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.