IIT Mandi signs MoU with DDMA to deloy Landslide Monitoring and Early Warning Systems in Mandi.

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• The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) for the installation of landslide monitoring and early warning systems at some places in the district.
• The Landslide Monitoring and Early Warning System device has been developed by Dr. Varun Dutt, Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Electrical Engineering, and Dr K.V. Uday, Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, IIT Mandi.
• The Landslide Monitoring System developed by IIT Mandi provides soil movement alerts via hooters and blinkers mounted on the road and dispatched remotely via text message. Also, the system sends rainfall alerts if more than 5 mm of rain is forecast.
• Landslides are currently predicted 10 minutes before they actually occur by monitoring changes in soil movement.