Baguio City's Calami-T an early warning system vs. landslides

Baguio City is now using an early warning system which gives disaster and risk reduction management personnel lead time to conduct preemptive evacuation.

According to Martin Javier's "Game Changer" report on "24 Oras," Project Calami-T or the Cordillera Administrative Landslide Monitoring Integrated Toolbox has six sensors installed in Baguio and Metro Baguio which sends ground conditions data to a central database.

The system was launched in July 2022 with P21.3-million funding from the Department of Science and Technology's Philippine Council for Industry, Energy and Emerging Technology Research and Development (DOST-PCIEERD).

The system can send real-time landslide data from environmental parameters such as soil moisture, temperature, rainfall intensity and ground movement.

The Baguio City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office is in charge of monitoring the data.

"It will give us a lead time to warn our constituents... in cases that we need todo preemptive evacuation," local disaster and risk reduction management officer Louie Glenne Ladrizabal said. —NB, GMA Integrated News