{"id":216893,"date":"2026-05-19T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/galveston-county-installs-ai-powered-flood-sensors-in-friendswood-league-city\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T04:15:14","slug":"galveston-county-installs-ai-powered-flood-sensors-in-friendswood-league-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/galveston-county-installs-ai-powered-flood-sensors-in-friendswood-league-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Galveston County installs AI-powered flood sensors in Friendswood, League City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/20\/galveston-county-installs-ai-powered-flood-sensors-in-friendswood-league-city\/\">Galveston County installs AI-powered flood sensors in Friendswood, League City<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/20\/galveston-county-installs-ai-powered-flood-sensors-in-friendswood-league-city\/\">https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/20\/galveston-county-installs-ai-powered-flood-sensors-in-friendswood-league-city\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 23:17:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.click2houston.com\">www.click2houston.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new flood warning system incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) is now online in parts of Galveston County, Texas.<\/li>\n<li>The system uses seven flood sensors installed by the Galveston County Consolidated Drainage District in Friendswood and League City to track water levels in real time.<\/li>\n<li>The sensors, supplied by Simplicity Integration, merge real-time data with rainfall totals, stream gauge readings, and weather station data, using AI to predict flood conditions.<\/li>\n<li>AI tools analyze historical floods, current rainfall, upstream water conditions, and soil saturation levels to offer proactive flood management insights.<\/li>\n<li>The system includes a public web portal where residents can view real-time information and sign up for alerts about specific creeks or monitoring locations.<\/li>\n<li>Currently available in Friendswood and League City, officials plan to extend the technology to other parts of Galveston County to enhance flood preparedness ahead of severe weather events.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galveston County installs AI-powered flood sensors in Friendswood, League City https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/news\/local\/2026\/05\/20\/galveston-county-installs-ai-powered-flood-sensors-in-friendswood-league-city\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-19 23:17:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216894,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/d1mg6ar6hlkkf8.cloudfront.net\/kprc\/3e5bde52-aead-489a-969d-ff3f52b6854e\/image.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-216893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216895,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216893\/revisions\/216895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}