Rice students create a low-power flood sensor network
When heavy rains come, as they inevitably do, it will be helpful for homeowners to know when a surge of floodwater is heading their way.
A team of senior engineering students at Rice University is working to make that technology real. They are developing a real-time, web-enabled system to monitor flood levels throughout a municipality like Houston, which has suffered three damaging floods in recent years, topped by the devastation of Hurricane Harvey.
