Chandigarh-based research organisation developing technology for real-time avalanche monitoring

For the Indian Army soldiers stationed on border posts on the snow clapped Himalayan region, an avalanche is no less threatening than the enemy fire. Avalanches can’t be stopped and nothing is left standing in their path. The only way to save precious lives is to predict its start.

The Chandigarh-based Snow and Avalanche Study Establishment (SASE) is in the process of developing technology that will be able to provide real-time prediction before an avalanche is triggered.

SASE is developing the Wireless Sensor Technology (WST) for gathering information from remote locations that will ensure uninterrupted data streaming to base station on near realtime basis.

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