RMS to fund new Florida hurricane detector

Risk Management Solutions (RMS) is to fund technology improvements for the Florida coastal monitoring programme.

RMS said the system would provide data to identify methods to reduce hurricane wind damage to residential structures using mobile collection towers.

"The previous cellular data relay system was dependent on the storm picking a 'good cell' region for landfall and relied on cell phone towers to remain online during the storm," said University of Florida associate professor of civil and coastal engineering Kurt Gurley

"The new satellite relay system will function reliably regardless of where the storm comes ashore.”