Rainfall MonitoringReal-Time Rain Gauge Data for Utilities and Municipalities

Rainfall monitoring is the foundation of every wet weather program. When a utility wants to know how much water entered the collection system, how quickly a lift station surged, or whether a pressure drop followed a storm, the first question is always ‘how much did it rain?’ Mission’s cellular rain gauges put that answer in the same dashboard as every other RTU in the system.

Because the gauges are cellular, there are no radio networks to license, no manual readings to collect, and no separate software to log in to. A rain gauge becomes just another tile on the 123SCADA map, and its data is available for correlation and reporting immediately.

Inflow and infiltration (I&I) is the leading driver of sanitary sewer capacity problems in aging collection systems. A targeted I&I study uses rainfall data to identify which basins respond most aggressively to wet weather — pointing crews directly at the pipe segments where rehabilitation spending delivers the biggest return. Utilities use these reports to prioritize capital planning, defend sewer rate increases, and satisfy consent decree documentation requirements.

Rainfall data also feeds flood warning systems. When accumulated rainfall in a watershed crosses a defined threshold, 123SCADA can dispatch early warning notifications to emergency managers and road crews — well before downstream stream gauges show rising levels.

This forward-looking alerting buys public safety teams precious extra minutes.