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Enabling User Centered Distributed Stormwater Monitoring

Authors:
Julio Arauz
Amy Lynch

Keywords: Urban; stormwater, management, user-centered

Abstract:
Stormwater management is a significant and expensive problem for cities and communities around the world. Impervious surfaces, such as roofs and parking lots, prevent water from being absorbed into the ground and result in large volumes of runoff. Stormwater runoff carries pollutants, such as oil and chemicals, across the urban landscape and into waterways and can lead to the overflow of combined sewer systems. Large volumes of stormwater can also lead to flooding and the erosion and sedimentation of waterways. Conventional systems of managing stormwater are centralized and expensive. Many communities have been moving away from centralized stormwater management systems and toward distributed solutions such as rain gardens. These strategies are designed to absorb urban runoff before it can leave the site. However, the distributed nature of these installations poses a major management challenge for cities and communities. There is a pressing need for low-cost monitoring solutions that enable a continuous understanding of the operation of these installations by their owners and by municipalities. In this work, we present an open source, open hardware design and first results of a sensing system that allows user centered monitoring of stormwater flows for rain gardens.

Pages: 1 to 6

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2019

Publication date: November 24, 2019

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3492

ISBN: 978-1-61208-754-2

Location: Valencia, Spain

Dates: from November 24, 2019 to November 28, 2019