Project Title: Evaluation and Design of Low-cost ground instrumentation with Real-Time Monitoring for the Development of Landslide Early Warning System.
1. Project Details
Sanction Date: 26-02-2018
Project Category MG
Batch Year 2017-2018
Project Duration 3 Years + 9 Months Extension
BTA : Infrastructure Development
Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered: Tangni Landslide popularly known as Pagal Nala Landslide (12km from Pipalkoti towards Joshimath), Chamoli-Joshimath Highw ay Corridor, Garhwal Himalaya
Organization/ Implementation Agency:

CSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI), Roorkee, Uttarakhand

Project Partners: S.No. Name
1.
CSIR-CBRI, Roorkee
1.
IIT-Roorkee
Lead Proponent:

Dr. Debi Prasanna Kanungo

CSIR-Central Building Research Institute (CBRI) Roorkee, Uttarakhand

Project Brief Description: India has emerged as the hot spot of landslides and associated disaster on global map. The severity and impact of disasters are increasing both in terms of magnitude and frequency causing enormous loss of life, property thus affecting severely GDP and development. The risk of landslide is increasing everyday due to large investments in infrastructure and ever increasing human habitation in moderate to high hazard mountainous region due to strategic as well as socio-economic reasons. Thus, landslide hazard mitigation has emerged as one of the top-most priorities of the country.
Therefore, a comprehensive risk management strategy is needed to reduce the disaster risks. Within a sustainable management of disaster risks, the installation of an early warning system is often a cost-effective risk mitigation measure, and in some instances the only suitable option. Landslide instrumentation and real-time monitoring can provide insight into the understanding of the dynamics of landslide movement. In addition, landslide monitoring in real time can provide immediate information on the landslide activity that may be critical to protect lives and properties. Reliable landslide warning systems, the outcome of systematic landslide instrumentation and real time monitoring, require accurate short-term forecast of landslide movement which in turn demand a detailed understanding of present field conditions and a quantitative framework for interpreting these conditions. The proposed project aims at the development of a low cost sensor networking and data acquisition system for automated monitoring of landslide for the purpose of early warning. It will encompass the identification of the main causative parameters of the landslide processes, development of monitoring schemes, and development and testing of elements of systems for automated monitoring. Therefore, specific work plans can be enumerated as: (i) Development of low cost sensors for ground-based monitoring of displacement/tilt, soil moisture and piezometric pressure with respect to precipitation; (ii) Low cost IOT Sensor networking with high efficiency solar energy harvesting system; real time data acquisition and processing; (iii) Field deployment and experimental validation of readily available MEMS sensors and other systems with subsequent deployment of developed indigenous low cost MEMS sensor systems; (iv) Efficacy evaluation of the low cost wireless instrumentation and real time monitoring of landslide and (v) Development of landslide early warning system for its societal use.
Beneficiaries/ Stakeholders: National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), Uttarakhand State Disaster Management Authority (USDMA), State PWD, Border Road Organisation and Uttarakhand State Administration.
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2. Financial Details


3. Project Objectives, Deliverables and Monitoring Indicators
Total Grants (in Rs.) Rs. 2,13,90,480/- (Rupees Two Crore Thirteen Lakh Ninety Thousand Four Hundred Eighty only)
Project Objectives Quantifiable Deliverables Monitoring Indicators
Development of low-cost sensors for ground-based monitoring of displacement/tilt, soil moisture and piezometric pressure with respect to precipitation; with real-time (RT) data acquisition and processing; Low-cost Landslide Early Warning System for Himalayan Landslides; Periodic Submission of Assessment Reports with analytical findings (Nos);
Testing and validation by field deployment of readily available MEMS sensors with subsequent deployment of developed indigenous low-cost MEMS sensor systems; Low-cost IOT Sensors with real time data collection and networking with high efficiency solar energy harvesting system; No. of New Database/ Datasets generated on the identified dynamics for RT Monitoring and Early Warning System (No.);
Efficacy evaluation of the low-cost wireless instrumentation and real-time monitoring of landslide; and Development of a scheme of ground-based wireless real-time monitoring system for critical landslides with its capability of replication in different areas; Periodic submission on region-specific demonstrative models/ Scheme(s)/ Methodologies (No.), etc.;
Development of landslide early warning system for its societal use. Workshop/s on landslide early warning system involving local people and officials for 4 districts of Uttarakhand. No of sensor developed and tested on ground for efficacy
Policy framework/ draft (No.) for assisting the regional decision-making in scaling up the process, particularly on RT Monitoring and Early Warning System;
Other Publications and Knowledge Products (Nos.).
No of beneficiaries involved in the program
S.No. Name (Sanctioned Post) Qualification Designation Salary (Sanctioned)
1. 01 RA-III @ Rs.40,000/- + HRA
2. 01 SRF @ Rs.28,000/- + HRA
3. 03 JRF @ Rs.25,000/- + HRA
S.No. Name of Equipment (Sanctioned equipment) Details Cost (in INR) (Sanctioned Budget)
1. VW Piezometers (VW Piezometer (3 sensors)
2. Node for VW Piezometer (3nos) and 4 core cable
3. Cable Celling Compound & Cable Splicing Kit
4. In Place Inclinometers System (Bi-axial IPL Sensors (15 nos)
5. IPL Sensor Node (4 nos)
6. Accessories (Top Caps & Botto
7. Caps
8. Top Support assembly
9. Inclinometer access tubes
10. Extension Tube
10. Wheel Assembly
11. Coupling
12. Mastic Tape & 6-Core Cable for IPL Sensors
13. Automatic Rain Gauge
14. Gateway/ Data Acquisition system (Gateway, Solar Panel, Inverter & Battery)
15. Web Based Monitoring software for data Acquisitions monitoring & Processing
16. Drilling of NX Size Boreholes (120 m) (Mob/Demob of equipment & personnel at site for drilling of borehole & installation of ABS Casing
17. Shifting and erection of drilling rig
18. Drilling in all type of soil/boulders/rocks strata by DTH drilling method to the specified depth and Installation of ABS plastic casing including grouting using prescribed grout of cement and bentonite)
19. Cloud server & Graphic User interface for cloud data handling
20. Installation of Instruments including
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