The Kerala State Electricity Board is creating a network of automatic weather stations and automatic rain gauges, considering the increasing importance of accurate weather data to decision-making in the power sector. “A robust weather monitoring system consisting of granular, standard quality and timely available weather datasets is the need of the hour to strengthen the load forecasting system of a …
Hundred rain gauges will be installed and operated with community participation during this monsoon along the Periyar and Chalakudy river basins in Kerala. The project is run by Equinoct, a Kochi-based community-sourced modelling solution provider, the sole start-up from India to be chosen by the United Nations Children’s Fund’s maiden Climate Tech Cohort Venture Fund Project. Equinoct is also in …
PUNE The Pune Municipal has begun work to update the software of rain gauges to take accurate rainfall readings in different parts of the city. HT Image The corporation installed rain gauges in 15 ward offices in 2013 to measure rainfall and give alerts to the disaster management cell about flood-like situations. According to the disaster management cell, the system …
