This means that any measurement done within 1250 meters of a station should be the same as the measurement done by the station itself. The total area of the district is 80,000,000 meters squared. Stations have the ability to collect data at different time intervals. They can be set to collect data every 5 minute or at every 60 minutes or every four hour. Data is transmitted from the stations via cellular phone to a central computer.
More data means longer phone calls.
Each byte, on the other hand, is made out of eight bits of information. Our cell phones and modem connections can transmit 4800 bits per second. When set to collect data every five minutes, a station collects 288 lines of data in one day. One hundred centimeters equals one meter. To supply power to the stations they can be plugged into an electrical outlet only if they are less than 5,000 meters from the HMDC main building.