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Towards Innovative Solutions for Monitoring Precipitation in Poorly Instrumented Regions: Real-Time System for Collecting Power Levels of Microwave Links of Mobile Phone Operators for Rainfall Quantification in Burkina Faso

Version 1 : Received: 22 September 2022 / Approved: 26 September 2022 / Online: 26 September 2022 (02:05:11 CEST)

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Djibo, M.; Ouedraogo, W.Y.S.B.; Doumounia, A.; Sanou, S.R.; Sawadogo, M.; Guira, I.; Koné, N.; Chwala, C.; Kunstmann, H.; Zougmoré, F. Towards Innovative Solutions for Monitoring Precipitation in Poorly Instrumented Regions: Real-Time System for Collecting Power Levels of Microwave Links of Mobile Phone Operators for Rainfall Quantification in Burkina Faso. Appl. Syst. Innov. 2023, 6, 4. Djibo, M.; Ouedraogo, W.Y.S.B.; Doumounia, A.; Sanou, S.R.; Sawadogo, M.; Guira, I.; Koné, N.; Chwala, C.; Kunstmann, H.; Zougmoré, F. Towards Innovative Solutions for Monitoring Precipitation in Poorly Instrumented Regions: Real-Time System for Collecting Power Levels of Microwave Links of Mobile Phone Operators for Rainfall Quantification in Burkina Faso. Appl. Syst. Innov. 2023, 6, 4.

Abstract

Since the 1990s, mobile telecommunication networks have gradually become denser around the world. Nowadays, large parts of their backhaul network consist of commercial microwave links (CMLs). Since CML signals are attenuated by rainfall the exploitation of records of this attenua-tion for precipitation monitoring purposes is an innovative and inexpensive solution. Performance data from mobile operators' networks is crucial for the implementation of this technology. And, moreover for near real-time quantification. To meet this requirement, a real-time system for col-lecting and storing CML power levels from the cellular phone operator "Telecel Faso" in Burkina Faso was implemented. This new acquisition system, which uses the Simple Network Manage-ment Protocol (SNMP) can simultaneously record the transmitted and received power levels from all the CML to which it has access, with a time resolution of one minute. Installed at “Laboratoire des Matériaux et Environnement de l’Université Joseph KI-ZERBO (Burkina Faso)”, this acquisi-tion system is dynamic and has gradually grown from eight to more than 1000 radio links Tele-cel Faso CML links between 2019 and 2021. The system covers the capital Ouagadougou and the main cities of Burkina Faso (Bobo Dioulasso, Ouahigouya, Koudougou and Kaya) as well as the axes connecting Ouagadougou to these cities.

Keywords

Commercial microwave links; Power level; SNMP protocol; Acquisition system; Rainfall estimation

Subject

Physical Sciences, Applied Physics

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