A system that helps people make decisions about the risk of flash floods in cities.
By the year 2100, about two-thirds of Europe’s people will be affected by weather-related disasters every year (i.e., 351 million people). Every civil protection worker’s top priority, then, is to be ready for heavy rain in urban areas. Trying to figure out how much water is in a small urban catchment is hard because surface runoff happens quickly when it rains a lot. Traditional monitoring networks and existing Decision Support Systems (DSS) do not provide rainfall map forecasts with the spatial resolution and frequent updates needed to predict the exact location and size of flash floods quickly and accurately. Arty’s solution uses new technologies that make it fast and easy to figure out how likely it is that flooding will happen in a certain area. Artys’s disruptive solution is a Decision Support System (DSS) that uses the patented Smart Rainfall System (SRS) technology to help build cities that can handle extreme weather by monitoring rainfall in real time and predicting the risk of flooding. Thanks to a network of innovative Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and advanced risk analysis modeling, SRS lets decision-makers protect people and goods by making smarter, faster decisions and managing emergencies in the best way possible, based on facts.
Positive facts about Smart Rainfall System
All-in-one service that allows predicting the flash flood hazard at the small scale of the urban district
SRS rainfall monitoring products are updated every minute, 10 times faster than the mainstream alternative
The typical space resolution of the SRS rainfall maps is 100 meters, 5 times finer than the mainstream alternative
Zero electromagnetic pollution: SRS relies on a clean and safe technology that doesnt emit microwaves to perform rainfall measurements whereas the mainstream alternative continuously irradiates high power microwaves in the environment,
Low carbon footprint: 98% reduction of CO2 emission with respect to the mainstream alternative
SRS predicts flash floods from 30 min to 2 hours before the emergency – SRS is the only system capable of evaluating the flood hazard at the small spatial scale of the urban drainage system and effectively supporting civil/environmental protection
High social impact: more than 10€ returned for every 1€ invested thanks to the exact knowledge of the incoming flood hazard
Service provided for a yearly fee: 150 euro for every km2 of flood-prone monitored territory, 50% cheaper than the mainstream alternative
No Capital Expenditures
Video about Smart Rainfall System
https://www.youtube.com/embed/r1EY4b-rp_A
Smart Rainfall System website : https://artys.it
