Smart Cities Connect 2018: How Ann Arbor (Mich.) Drained Stormy Waters Smartly

Source: Mickey McCarter, State Tech

A small open source system provided officials with a great deal of control over water drainage.

In recent years, the city of Ann Arbor, Mich., has struggled to deal with increased floodwaters reaching the city. To funnel pooling waters after intense storms safely away, the city worked with the University of Michigan to develop Open Storm, a package of open-source sensors, hardware and algorithms to measure and control storm water.

Speaking at the Smart Cities Connect Conference and Expo on Wednesday, Branko Kerkez told those gathered that flooding is the number one cause of death in natural disasters in United States.