TAHMO received two small business development grants
TAHMO has received two small business development grants under the SBIR program of the Netherlands government. The first grant concerns the development of an agronomic advice service for potato farmers in Rwanda. It is a cooperation between Severe Weather Consult, a Rwandan SME, and TAHMO. Potato farmers in Rwanda tend to spray a lot, especially […]
Call for Application: Hackathon for Environmental Sensors – 19 to 23 Nov 2018 in Kumasi, Ghana.
Call for Application Hackathon for Environmental Sensors (Hardware) and IoT for Climate Services Date: 19-23 November 2018 @ KNUST Kumasi Business Incubator, Kumasi Background TWIGA is a 4-year project (2019 – 2023) under EU Horizon2020 aimed to transform weather water data into value-added information services. It is made up of a consortium of 18 partners […]
TAHMO Mentoring IoT Team in Rwanda
Meteo Rwanda in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) challenged technocrats to design a climate early warning system. The challenge focused on using the Internet of Things (IoT) to develop a solution. And due to TAHMO’s experience in building early warning systems, we were invited to mentor the participants. Gilbert (TAHMO and SWC) […]
TAHMO wins the 2015 European Satellite Navigation Competition
Prof. Dr. Nick van de Giesen, co-director of TAHMO, and Dr. Eugenio Realini won both as special prize winners in the University Challenge and as regional winners for the Netherlands in the 2015 European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC). Each year, the ESNC seeks services, products, and business innovations that use satellite navigation in everyday life. […]
TAHMO on Inhabitat.com
Inhabitat.com is a weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices, and materials that are pushing toward a smarter and more sustainable future. Read the article ‘TU Delft Developing a Network Of 20,000 Weather Stations to Track Climate Change in Africa’ on this interesting website. Photo credit: TAHMO
AfricanBrains Reports on Final Challenge
After a week of soldering, programming, and teamwork, a cheer went up when 21 sensors, brought in from all corners of Africa, came online and started submitting their measurements to the internet. The sensors were designed by the winners of the TAHMO Sensor Design Competition. Final Challenge of the TAHMO Sensor Design Competition held in […]
Delta II
TU Delft researchers are using gift cards to measure rainfall. Their odd sensors must eventually provide insights into hydrology in Africa and on the TU Delft campus [link].
Delta I
Researchers at the Department of Water Management (Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences) want to cover Africa with inexpensive weather stations made out of electronic gadgets, such as the Wii [link].