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#143: UT San Antonio's $150 Flood Sensor, Bangkok's One Map Under Scrutiny, a Florida Sheriff Draws a Line Around 911
Impact Signals #143: UT San Antonio's $150 Flood Sensor, Bangkok's One Map Under Scrutiny, a Florida Sheriff Draws a Line Around 911 A University of Texas at San Antonio team built a street-level flood sensor that runs its prediction model on the device itself, so it keeps working when storms knock out power and cell signal, the two things that usually take a flood-warning network down first. In Bangkok, roughly 300 millimeters of rain in 48 hours flooded all 50 city districts and handed the first real test to Thailand's AI-fused "One Map" warning system, with the scrutiny landing on whether…
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