Rainfall Monitoring and IDF Analysis

Key Rainfall Features

• Map-Based Network Overview: easy point-and-click links to all of your flow analysis functions, including hourly and daily totals;
• Straightforward summary reports; concise monthly rainfall summary shows you hourly, daily, and monthly totals along with duration-based statistics from 5-minutes to 24-hours;
• Intuitive graphing with custom template saving; combine rainfall into graphs along with any other station in your system;
• Intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) analysis shows any current or historical storm data in the context of historical values and return periods;
• Custom real-time displays available, showing you everything that is going on in your rainfall network at a glance;
• Specialized rainfall analysis functions allowing you to assess return frequency of your recorded storm events;
• Alarm notifications when your stations reach critical combined sewage overflow amounts;
• Visual surveillance capability using an economical field camera to capture and link field observations at your flow monitoring or rainfall sites;
• Powerful meta-data storage capabilities, allowing you to store date and time-stamped photos, verification measurements and field observations, both in online data forms as well as through attachable documents;
• Custom displays or flow analysis data feeds back to your own website for private or public viewing;
• Flexible download capability allowing you to easily download a day, a year, or a decade worth of your data through our high-speed data transfer service.
• Data Transfer Flexibility + Hardware Neutrality: You choose whether to transfer your flow analysis data manually through our high-speed upload service or link directly with your live data. FlowWorks will work with existing equipment from a mature monitoring network, or we can supply equipment solutions for you utilizing telephone, cellular, and satellite telemetry.

Easily answer the following common rainfall questions using FlowWorks flow analysis software

• Where are my rainfall stations, and what are the current conditions?
• How much variation is there between precipitation at each of my stations?
• Are any of the rain gauges plugged with debris?
• It’s raining pretty hard outside…how big is this event?
• How big was the rainfall event that caused last weeks flooding?
• Can I see the maintenance sheets for a station for the past year?
• Which stations need battery changes right now?
• Are any stations not calling in?
• Can I see a picture of the current conditions at a site?