A low-cost, autonomous, and connected rainfall monitoring station

Overview & Synopsis

It is necessary to increase rainfall monitoring spatial distribution in urban areas to improve stormwater management and urban flooding forecast. However, the large-scale deployment of conventional rainfall monitoring instruments is costly. This abstract presents the implementation of three low-cost rainfall monitoring stations. The objective is to evaluate the performance and reliability of these low-cost instruments in comparison with conventional instruments installed on the same site. First tests have shown that the designed systems can operate autonomously in the field (with one measurement every minute) and report measured quantities (time stamp, precipitation, output voltages) every five minutes.