Flood Alert Equipment Gives Time To Prepare

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Flood Alert Equipment Gives Time To Prepare
With floods in the UK being top of the news all the time presently, it is good to see that there is technology around to help. We all know that is tough, if not impossible to stop flooding, but at least giving warnings out gives people and businesses time to reactand get ready for the incoming water.

Xylem Analytics have developed some technology to help in giving these warnings, the Chatter being developed for monitoring and measuring of, among other things, water levels where no permanent power supply is available. It consists of a built-in multi-channel data logger, a GSM/GPRS modem including a battery which ensures more than 5-year life time on the battery for one call a day. It even transmits data over the internet by means of the integrated GPRS modem, plus, it sends SMS text messages with alarm notifications.

It really does cover all the bases. the event-controlled data logger has a huge memory and it even has an Anti-vandalism SMS alarm!

It is constructed to last too, being housed in an impact-proof aluminium and plastic covering for placing directly on bore holes and sounding
borings. The sensor, electronics and antenna are all secured from vandalism.

It can be configured to the log and call at preset intervals too. Between these events the entire system is in hibernation mode, almost without using any kind of electricity, so the battery
lasts for ages.

At the picked log and transmission time the Chatter awakens, procedures and transmits the data. Such a wake up can be as briefly as 10-15 seconds, with indicates the battery can last more than 5 years.
The Chatter is available in an IP 67 / NEMA4 polycarbonate cabinet for wall placing with a 230/115 V A/C or 10-30 VDC supply. With Chatter's analog, digital and modbus inputs, a connection of new as well as existing measuring units is possible.

Even here, to save electricity, Chatter only supplies the connected transmitters for the time the measuring takes place, typically less than 10 seconds per measurment. By picking the Modbus connection, measurement signals are transferred to Chatterwith a maximum resolution, considering that there is no analogue-to-digital signal handling involved in the circuit.

All this is technical chit chat of course, but it all indicates that a community or area can get vital hours of warningabout a potential flooding incident.