Open technologies for monitoring systems aimed at disaster risk reduction

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1 Dipartimento Ambiente Costruzione e Design, Scuola Universitaria Professionale della Svizzera Italiana - SUPSI, Canobbio, Ticino, Switzerland
2 Independent researcher, Plumergat, France
3 International Water Management Institute, Pelawatte, Sri Lanka
4 Innovation Lab, Global Facility for Disaster Risk Reduction, World Bank, Washington, D.C., United States of America
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.2132v1
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Data Science, Databases, Emerging Technologies
Keywords
OSHW, FOSS, DIY, disaster, risk, weather station, istSOS, reduction, flood
Copyright
© 2016 Cannata et al.
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Cite this article
Cannata M, Chemin Y, Antonovic MP, Wijesinghe L, Deparday V. 2016. Open technologies for monitoring systems aimed at disaster risk reduction. PeerJ Preprints 4:e2132v1

Abstract

This research is spearheading the integration of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and Open Source Hardware (OSHW) in the field of agri-meteorology applications to disaster risk reduction, flood and droughts. A Do-It-Yourself weather station based on OSHW standards has been developed from local sources in Sri Lanka, reporting by SMS to tank/reservoir managers when rainfall is higher than 10mm/h. These weather stations are soon going to be reprogrammed to report to istSOS, a FOSS web-based Sensor-Observation-Service compliant system, which will collate live reporting of rainfall every hour and before if intensities are dimmed worrying for flood risks. This is both a scientific, technological, and practical challenge toward a very low cost real time disaster risk notification system in places where climate, economy and maintenance supports are themselves other challenges.

Author Comment

This is an article intended for the OGRS2016 Collection.

Session is "Open Geospatial for water"