Use Case: Smart Rain Sensor for Urban Areas – High-Resolution & Cost-Effective

Your challenge

Increasingly frequent heavy rainfall events pose a major challenge for urban and drainage planning as well as disaster and civil protection. The effectiveness of a drainage strategy, for example, also depends on which areas of the city have experienced what amounts of rainfall. Currently, there is only one rain sensor available per 180 km² in Germany to capture rainfall amounts. For situation-adapted and prioritized disaster protection measures, it is important to provide significantly higher local and temporal resolution of this information.

Your benefit

To measure the spatial distribution of rainfall at sufficiently close intervals and to be able to model and predict it more precisely in the future, a large number of cost-effective, robust, and interconnected rainfall sensors are needed. Our technology for this is based on acoustic sensing, AI classification algorithms, and edge computing for decentralized real-time capture and transmission of rainfall amounts.

Extras

The technology can be integrated into various existing structures, including solar panels, vehicle roofs, or skylights.