Design and Development of an Integrated Web-based System for Tropical Rainfall Monitoring

• Main Authors: Trono, Edgar Marko, Guico, Maria Leonora, Labuguen, Rollyn T, Navarro, Andrei, Libatique, Nathaniel Joseph C, Tangonan, Gregory L
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2014
• Subjects: Rainfall monitoring; web technologies; acoustic sensors; wireless broadband links; wireless sensors; Electrical and Computer Engineering; Environmental Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/ecce-faculty-pubs/47; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1046&context=ecce-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This study is about the design and development of an integrated web-based system for tropical rainfall monitoring. The system gathers data using a network of low-cost, Android-based acoustic rainfall sensors, a nationwide infrastructure of 5 GHz wireless broadband links, and remote weather stations. The low-cost Android-based acoustic rainfall sensors are deployed at high densities over a local area and the 5 GHz wireless broadband sensors gather rainfall information on a nationwide scale. The sensor network provides information about spatial-variations that are characteristics of tropical rain rates, and complement data from the scarcely deployed remote weather stations. Gathered data is then processed and displayed on a web interface.