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Amazing! An Umbrella that gives you rain data via smart phone!

Darpan News Desk IANS, 07 May, 2014 01:37 PM
    Though rains are still some days away, buying this umbrella that can collect rain data won't be a bad idea.
     
    A Danish researcher has built a prototype umbrella that has a sensor.
     
    It detects raindrops falling on its canvas and uses bluetooth to send this information via a phone to a computer, a BBC report said.
     
    “We have radar and satellites, but we are not measuring rain on the ground as we used to; it's expensive to maintain the gauges,” Rolf Hut from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands was quoted as saying.
     
    How does this 'smart' umbrella work?
     
    A sensor kept under the canvas measures the vibrations caused by falling raindrops.
     
    This is wired into a mobile-phone Bluetooth earpiece that sends information into an app.
     
    The smart phone then links all its data over the cell network to a laptop.
     
    “The moment you open the umbrella under rains, it would start sending data to your phone which uploads it to the cloud,” Hut was quoted as saying.

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