Early warning device for landslide

Submitted by Due-House-9745 t3_ydpj27 in Futurology

We are planning to do a project to help small - medium size communities that are prone to landslide, which affect their livelihood and put their life at risk.

Do you guys have any ideas of a device that can act as an early warning with maybe sensors in detecting rainfall, soil, and land movement. Thanks!

Update! Thanks for the input as we have ideas to brainstorm about.

We may be expanding our ideas up to technological solutions for landslide not just early warning devices.

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bossonhigs t1_itu3mvj wrote

I found this. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Illustration-testing-and-monitoring-series-of-movement-and-soil-moisture-3-Result-and_fig1_331347689

Not sure if this is fully functional or it's just idea. But it's based on arduino, which makes it cheap. Knowledge how to do it and program it is the only issue so better connect with some arduino community.

I have no background in this, but it seems people are mostly detecting wetness of soil and movement of soil. So some plain gps for movement and moisture sensors should do the job. Positioning those sensors might be crucial. Tech might help to save lives, but for long term I'd go natural way and try to find experts who knows about the soil and trees. Planting trees with deep roots could help in some cases.

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Uncle_Charnia t1_itto06n wrote

I assume that soil saturation affects the transmission of sound. Make a birdhouse on a post, with a solar panel roof and a subsonic transducer in the base. Put a sparse array of these landslide detecting birdhouses (LDBs) on an experimental hillside. Tell an AI to learn which change in sound transmission precedes landslides. Wait for storms, or speed things up with sprinklers. Once you establish predictive power, add a system that makes noise and sends text messages to warn people and notify authorities.

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