And hackers love clean data too, so when [Felix]’s sump pump water level data was made useless by a new pump controller, he just knew he had to hack the controller to clean up his data.

Sump pumps typically sit on the basement floor or reside in a pit set below the floor. Once standing water reaches a certain level, the pump turns on and pushes groundwater out and away from the ...

[Stephen] has a basement that depends on a sump pump. What that means is if ... The initial plan was just to have water level sensors reporting data over a modified CATS packet radio transmitter.