LoRaWAN

Digital sensors prove to be a success for early flood warning

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Photo: Thanks to Chris Gallagher, Unsplash Investigations into creating a digital smart system have demonstrated it has significant potential to provide early warning of surface water flooding and help managers to make better decisions to reduce flood-risk. Research showed that Long-Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) sensors are a low-cost technology which could support smarter flood-risk … Read more

A network of digital sensors would be an ‘absolute dream’ for emergency planners during a flood incident – Mick Devine and Amy Boyd at Wakefield Council explain why.

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Pictured: Flooding incident at Barnsdale Road Around 6,600 homes in the Wakefield district are permanently at risk of flooding from sudden storms. It’s actually surface water flooding that poses a bigger threat to the area than rising river levels as parts of the district’s drainage system could easily be overwhelmed by heavy rain. This is … Read more