Umbrellas are supposed to help keep us dry, but are they really
able to do more than just that?
Perhaps, as a certain Rolf Hut from Delft University of
Technology in The Netherlands has thought up of a plan to transform the regular
umbrella into a rain gauge. This particular
prototype of his that you can see above will sport a sensor which is capable of
detecting raindrops that fall onto the umbrella’s canvas, where Bluetooth
connectivity will help the sensors relay such information to a connected
smartphone or computer for further analysis.
Dr. Hut
hopes that the many thousands of ordinary folk like you and I out there with
our brollies will be able to work together as a crowdsource data pool, where
researchers will be able to rely on instead of falling back on a dwindling
number of scientific gauges.
Dr. Hut shared, “We have radar and
satellites, but we’re not measuring rain on the ground as we used to; it’s
expensive to maintain the gauges. Therefore, agencies are reducing the number,
and that’s a problem for people who do operational water management or do
research into hydrology because they don’t have the access to the data they
used to.”
This does sound as though it is going to be
more practical for us to share our resources instead of relying on computers to
search for intelligent lifeform out there via the SETI program.
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