Intelligent data collection rain

Rolf Hut, of Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, is planning to turn small umbrellas into rain gauges.

Sensor integrated on the umbrella - (Photo: Rolf Hut)

The prototype hotheaded by Hut's expert is equipped with a sensor capable of detecting falling droplets of canvas, and sending information downloaded to the computer via a bluetooth connection.

"We have radars and satellites, but we have not measured the amount of rainfall from the ground like before, because keeping the terrestrial meters is expensive ," the BBC quoted Dr. Hut.

Thus, he came up with the idea of integrating the sensor into the umbrella, allowing vibration measurements to appear when rain drops fall off.

The sensor is connected to a Bluetooth headset of your smartphone, then transfer the information to the application on the 'cricket' before putting the entire laptop to be specified in advance.

According to Dr. Hut, each city only needs to deploy several hundred trees, even if rainfall measurement is sufficient to improve the ability to explore urban hydrology.