The project aimed at the development of an interdisciplinary platform of a sensor-actuator-based early-warning system for disaster prevention in extreme weather conditions. On the sensor side a combination of conventional and newly developed cost-effective measurement systems contribute to an improved local forecast and impact assessment due to extreme weather. On the actuator side, besides the precise warning of persons concerned, also automatic systems for disaster prevention (e.g. building services engineering) are included. This functionality has been successfully proven in the case of a severe thunderstorm in May 2009 in the pilot region. Due to the numerical calculations, locally confined flooding has been predicted and information individually distributed to affected citizens about 15 to 20 minutes prior to the occurrence.
