India, July 26 -- To take precautionary measures and ease daily commute, the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) and India Meteorological Department (IMD) have collaborated to provide hyperlocal rain alerts, including details about possible waterlogging. The processed data will be accessible to citizens on mumbaiflood.in, which was launched on Friday.

IIT-Bombay's artificial intelligence (AI)-based weather model is set up at the Regional Meteorological Centre in Colaba. It is connected to two doppler radars located at Colaba and Veravali in Goregaon East to provide access to the weather data. "The model will process the data and send out alerts every 15 minutes and update it every eight minutes," said Professor Subimal Ghosh, c...