Cloudburst and Hailstorm Detection in Upper Shimla Region of Himachal Pradesh using Wireless Sensors Network

Abstract

A Wireless Sensor Network is a type of wireless network which basically consists of tiny devices called sensor nodes. A source node is resource constrained for battery power, storage and communication capability. These sensor nodes are set with radio interface with which they communicate with one another to form a communication network. Wireless sensor network has a very necessary application like remote environment monitoring and target tracking. Over the last decade, the advent of WSN has enabled variety of applications for monitoring and tracking the objects. It has emerged as an important area of research because of rapid changes and advances in hardware, sensors and wireless networking technologies. These advances will enable WSN to become a key to true ubiquitous computing systems in the near future. This project uses the previous environmental data to find out an efficient approach to analyze this data. Then an effective algorithm will be developed to be deployed in the sensors for detection of hailstorm and cloudburst in upper areas of Himachal Pradesh. Intended functions of this project include collection of past data from Environment department office of the local Government and from weather forecasting databases maintained in environmental research organizations in Shimla (H.P.), regarding hailstorm and cloudburst on the basis of availability. Collected data will be represented in proper format to extract the useful features to find relations among them to create a knowledge base, which will then be pre-processed to make the data useful for the learning algorithms.