Sensor Grid Predicts Imminent Flooding

An anonymous reader writes, "NewScientistTech has an interesting story about a river sensor network that not only measures water depth and flow, but also forms a wireless computing grid to calculate possible flooding scenarios." From the article: "If the river's behavior starts to change, the network uses the data collected to run models and predict what will happen next. If a flood seems likely — because it is rapidly rising and moving quickly — the network can send a wireless warning containing the details... [A researcher said:] 'One end goal would be that people living in areas that flood can install these themselves. They are simple and robust enough to make that possible.'"

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Sensor Grid Predicts Imminent Flooding

[P. Niss]

Sensor Grid Predicts Imminent Flooding

Holy shit!!! Where!?!?

Re:The next step:

[Spazntwich]

It was a terrible joke because it was incomplete.

I was hoping for a reply from someone asking "what kind?"

To which I'd reply, "Niggers, of course."