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1. Title of Invention: Rain Precipitation Landslide Monitoring Sensor 2. #hat technolo"!/product/process/field does !our invention relate to $ e specific if !ou can%: 3. Include several &e! words to descri e the technolo"! area of the invention in addition to ' 2 a ove: (. )ta"e of development $i.e. concept* + complete* protot!pe* etc.%: ,a. -as a description of !our invention een $or planned to e% pu lished: If it has een pu lished* please identif! the pu lication* the date pu lished and attached a cop! of the paper with this disclosure form: , . -as a description of !our invention een $or planned to e% disclosed to an e.ternal part!: If /E)* was there an active 0DA with the e.ternal part! at the time the disclosure was made1 If so* please provide a scan cop! of the 0DA. ,c. -as !our invention een used internall! or e.ternall!* or are there plans for use of the invention internall! or e.ternall!1

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Concept/Summary of the Invention There is a correlation between prolonged rainfall and structure failure of the soil which leads to the occurrence of landslide especially in areas such as bare lands or lands which used by human before for activities such as excavation, deforestation and others. These activities change the original structure of the soil and make them easily experience landslide once induced by triggering factor such as rainwater. Thus, a Ta!lor2s 3niversit! 4onfidential .

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landslide monitoring sensor which is able to act as a forecaster of the landslide for a particular area is brainstormed. Before the this sensor is being used on a specific land, data such as 10 days antecedent rainfall amount for each landslide area and cumulative amount of rainfall to trigger landslide are gathered and calculated. Based on the amount obtained, the sensor is then positioned to a height where amount of water once exceed this height will cause landslide to occur. Once the amount of water go beyond this critical level, alarm will bu ed and it can only be turn off manually by the user. Background There are many types of detector !geophone, strain gauge and soil moisture detector" available which capable of discover any microscopic changes in soil for instance like moisture, pore pressure and vibration and then react to alert the nearby people. # geophone is a device which converts ground movement !displacement" into voltage, which may be recorded at a recording station. Besides, a strain gauge is used to measure the strain of an ob$ect !a metallic foil pattern which supported by an insulating flexible backing" which caused by the movement of the soil. %astly, soil moisture sensor measures the water content in soil since water has a high dielectric constant& high water concentration causes a higher average dielectric constant for the soil. The average dielectric constant can be sensed by measuring the speed of propagation along a buried transmission line. These detectors are competent of detecting minuscule changes or infinitesimal processes occur in soil and however they are a costly one. Thus, rain gauge !is a cylinder which measures precipitation in millimeters in a certain amount of time" selected as a prior product' art, basis of design of our landslide monitoring sensor and modifications and improvement are made to it so that its functionality and operative methods is dissimilar to the rain gauge. Value of the Invention & Commercialisation The landslide detector is intended to predict the occurrence of landslide and thus reduce fatalities. (owever, not everyone can afford these highly cost advanced landslide detectors especially the poorer community, and thus fatalities continue to rise to a $eopardi e level. )urthermore, some of these detectors are designed in such a way that corresponds to the root cause of landslide in which the root cause might not be the triggering factor of landslide in other countries. )or instance, geophone is designed to detect vibration of soil due to earth*uake but this can only be found in some western countries especially in those earth*uake active regions. Tropical country such as +alaysia, ,ndonesia, Thailand and others is free from this region. Thus, our landslide detector not only affordable by everyone but at a same time it provides a better solution to prevent the landslides to occur in +alaysia. )irst and foremost, our landslide monitoring sensor is a life saving device. Based on research, there are -.0/ number of fatalities due to landslide triggered by rainwater across global each year and this is not the complete number yet. +any forests and lands near hillside have been excavated to meet the demand of populated people increasing every year. #s a conse*uences, structure of land changed and becomes highly unstable once contact with rainwater. Thus it is expected more landslides will happen and more fatalities and loss of property due to landslide, hence our landslide monitoring sensor is the solution we offer to this problem. 0ext, compare to current technology such as geophone, unnecessary, expensive parts and other maintenance costs can be avoided with the use of simple, efficient and yet cost effective device such as our landslide monitoring sensor and estimation of 1+ 112340 can be salvaged for a particular area every year with the use of our invention. #s mentioned, more residential and industrial areas are build near hillside and if landslide is a trending phenomenon as what we observing right now, land development companies and city councils are most likely to infringe our patent as this invention will favor them the most. The infringements could be detected in a various way. )irst, periodically visiting hillside areas and scanning the lands for similar technology as our patent. 5econd, the end product of the manufacturing Ta!lor2s 3niversit! 4onfidential .

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method of our patent is distinguishable especially the circuit and the hole si ed 0./mm. Thus, we can examine competitors6 factories or assembly lines. Of course, a competitor is unlikely to provide access to its facilities, especially for the purpose of inviting a patent infringement lawsuit. 7e may therefore be forced to resort to alternative methods for detecting infringement, such as scouring competitors6 websites or technical documentation for admissions evidencing infringement.

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;iagram 1< ,sometric view and side view of the landslide monitoring sensor The invention is not exactly same as the prior product !rain gauge", and thus it is considered as novel. )rom the functionality of both devices, rain gauge is only used to measure precipitation of !ater without discharging the water out, however precise calculation is being made to our invention so that discharging water is controlled and allow accumulation of water to take place in the container. Our invention is intended to predict occurrence of landslide with constant flowing out of water. Besides, the 2= standard rain gauge has three components< # large outer container called the overflow can, which is 2 inches in diameter and almost .4 inches tall& a brass or clear plastic measure tube, which is ..: inches in diameter and .0 inches deep& a copper or white plastic collector !funnel", which is 2 inches in diameter. 8ontrast to our invention, it does not have the overflo! can and funnel and has additional features such as wire holder which carrying . bare wires connected to a circuit box which comprises an integrated circuit which could not be found in a rain gauge. +oreover, the si e is different to suit our calculation. "orking mechanism >1? #n area is picked and analysis regarding the rainwater to trigger landslide is done to get the average amount of rainwater on a monthly or weekly basis re*uired to induce landslide. >.? The wire holder !." is positioned to the height based on the amount calculated in step 1. >/? # hole with depth of 1:0mm is dug and the landslide monitoring sensor in placed into the hole. >4? The landslide monitoring sensor is then left to collect water. >:? ,f the rainwater of that day less than the average amount, the container will drain out all the water& ,f the rainwater is more than the average amount, and then it will start to accumulate water. >-? 8ontinuous or heavy rainfall will cause the accumulation of the water until it reaches the critical level. >@? The bu er will produce sound once the critical level is exceeded and it can only be turned off manually by the user. This is to ensure that the landslide monitoring sensor gives enough time to the nearby people by alerting them to react and escape from the upcoming landslide. Circuit

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;iagram /< 8ircuit in A8B board and circuit design in Bltiboard The circuit comprises of the following component< @404 ,8 and @40. ,8, two 0A0 /304 transistor, two :-0kC resistor, 4@0kC resistor, bu er, %D;, two voltage sources and connecting wires. 7hen the water level reaches the critical level, the alarm will bu continuously even though when the water level falls below the critical level. This can be done by using a flip flop circuit with two 0O1 Eates.

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