The Minister of the Environment for France, Ségolène Royal has been recently interviewed on TV. Directly translated she said: “Operative monitoring of floods overall worked well, but some sensors have experienced problems, a new system of radar sensors will be trialled to compensate for this.” For those French speakers among you, the full interview on French TV is at the bottom of this blog under Links.
Radar sensors for tide, river and flood level monitoring are being adopted across many sectors of the UK and Europe. They are an affordable, reliable alternative to existing technologies and unaffected by weather or surface conditions, they require no stilling tubes or cable conduits for protection of sensors, water surface conditions or the propagation signal so they are safer, faster and easier to install. A UK case study also shows its benefits (see links below). On battery power they can last for many years on telemetry systems and the latest versions from VEGA even has Bluetooth communication for easy set up and maintenance. Find out more about our Water Radar Technology at www.vega.com and for our latest 80GHz Radar Technology at www.vega.com/radar
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Full TV Interview - in French