Chennai Real Time Flood Forecasting (RTDAS)
Project Supplier & System Integrator: SSTECH Salem Commercials Pvt Ltd, for WRD, Government of Tamil Nadu — funded by the World Bank through TNUIFSL. End users: Commissionerate of Revenue Administration, TNDRRA and the District Collectors (Disaster Management) of four districts, with WRD. 237 field locations across ~4,800 sq. km: 78 automatic rain gauges, 14 automatic weather stations, 81 radar water-level sensors at 65 sites and 80 shaft-encoder water-level recorders, telemetered to the Hydro Modelling Control Room at Ezhilagam, Chepauk, a Nearline DR Centre (NDRC) at Alandur, and Flood Monitoring Centres at Kancheepuram, Chengalpattu, Tiruvallur and Ranipet. The IFMC now works under the WRD SCADA Control Room.
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