The Flood Frog: An Autonomous Wireless Device for Flood Detection and Monitoring
Valerio Plessi, Filippo Bastianini, Sahra Sedighsarvestani · 2007
This report describes the real-time data acquisition, communication, and alerting capabilities of the Flood Frog, an embedded an autonomous device equipped with multiple sensors for environmental and structural monitoring. The system is capable of operating for several years without human intervention. Battery power and utilization of the GSM mobile network result in a completely wireless system. Coupled with the low cost of the device, this allows deployment in locations where automatic monitoring was previously hindered by cost or infeasibility of installation.