City-scale weather monitoring with campus networks for disaster management: Case study in Hyderabad

A weather station with communication capability allows remote weather monitoring, which observations help us to estimate flooding and to make an alarm for evacuation from potential weather-related disasters. Rainfall often comes with a very local weather phenomenon, and to capture them, we have to deploy many weather stations geographically densely. This paper provides our study on a city-scale weather monitoring system for disaster management applications. We have identified a compact observation scheme for city-scale weather monitoring with campus networks, and developed our weather stations. In this work, we have deployed our weather stations at 18 locations over the city of Hyderabad India, and evaluated the performance of our city-scale weather monitoring system. With our preliminary analysis on the observations of 15th June 2014, we confirmed that our system had detected very heavy, local and short-term rainfall, sudden temperature changes, sudden wind changes, and rapid and very local air pressure changes. These results indicate that we can use this type of city-scale weather monitoring system for capturing the local weather phenomenon and for disaster management applications.