SMS based flood monitoring and early warning system

This paper demonstrates the design process, implementation and experimental verification of a Flood Level Monitoring system. The main objective of the proposed system is to be able to read the water level at every second, display it to the supervisor and alert the affected populace and relevant authorities by means of an alarm and short message system (SMS) when the level of water surpasses a user defined threshold. Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network has been used for sending the mobile messages. Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC) microprocessor is used to read in the input from the sensor and then display the result. The measuring system is based upon the theory of pressure being applied to liquids. Furthermore, the collated data is useful to the meteorologist for investigating and monitoring the cause of flooding with respect to time and weather patterns. This warning system is deemed to be a faster method of alerting the relevant authorities and the vulnerable residence.

This study aimed to develop a flood warning system via SMS notification capable of disseminating information to the community about an impending flood. At present, the dissemination of information or warning the people in the community about an oncoming flood is done manually. The researchers did some document reviews, interviews and observations in order to obtain reliable and accurate information. The researchers discovered that disseminating information especially in the flood prone areas is difficult. In many countries flood warning systems (FWS) have been introduced to minimize losses in lives and properties by warning people in flood prone areas to evacuate and protect their property on time. The proposed system introduced a computerized flood warning system that could easily send information to the people. The system intended to organize the current system and provide assistance to the people in disseminating information. This proposed flood warning system via SMS notification is highly recommended to the office that is in-charge of warning the community about the occurrence of a flood. This proposed system is expected to improve the methods of informing the community every time there is an impending. It could also bring technological advancement not only for the office but also for the people.

Early flood alerts system is use to create a tool to measure water level, which powered by solar cell panel. The system is supported by microcontroller and GSM modem to send the measured data via SMS (Short Message Service) into two specific clients' phone numbers that have previously been inputted into the system. Besides the capability to predict the remaining time before the flood, this system can also detect three types of water level: early flood level, flood level and low tide level after the flood with a maximum water level detection of four meters. This system focused on an accurate measurement of the height of the water level and sending a warning message of the threshold height set before to the clients. For each of water level, the system will send three messages for each client number. The setting for client phone numbers and the water level can be programmed by sending the SMS that has been formatted in the system. The early flood alerts system is based on ATMEL AT89S51 microcontroller and the measurement of the water level is processed by ultrasonic HC-SR04.

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

Flood disaster has become a national disaster that often occurs in the world today. Indonesia is one country that has a lot of flooding. The cause of the flooding is human error in environmental care. To overcome floods in the short term is to build a flood disaster mitigation system to anticipate more victims. This study aims to create an SMS gateway-based flood notification system. This mitigation system was built using ultrasonic sensors and rain sensors as input components, Raspberry Pi mini-computers as processors and GSM modems as outputs. This research resulted in a prototype of a flood notification system that can send SMS when floods occur. Tests have been carried out by varying the height of the water, which is between 0cm to 20cm. SMS will be sent to users when the water level is at 5cm, 10cm, 15cm, and 20cm. In prototype testing used a scale between 0 cm to 20 cm. From several tests conducted, the system has been able to send SMS to users. This research has provided inno...

International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology, 2019

Flooding is a national disaster that often occurs in Indonesia. Flood disasters require long-term and short-term action. In the short-term system, the government currently emphasizes state and private institutions to jointly reduce flood victims by developing a flood disaster early warning system. Therefore, this study discusses the making of flood early warning information systems by utilizing GSM communication systems as a means of communication between clients and servers. The GSM communication service used is the SMS Gateway. The SMS gateway service is used for the first time sending data from a flood detection system to a flood information system. Second, disseminating flood information to the public. In this study, the flood warning system for flood early warning works with the integration of three modes.The three systems are flood detection systems, flood alarm systems, and flood early warning information systems. Flood detection systems are built using ultrasonic sensors and...

This research is proposed to produce prototype of a system called Intelligent Flood Information System via SMS (IFIS). The purpose of this system is to provide an earlier warning to the residents or user who always face flood problem at the particular areas. This system is developed using water level sensor that gives information to a particular user via SMS and also the information can be viewed by the client. It can be used by anyone who has a mobile phone and has a Local Area Netwok (LAN) connection. The user will receive the SMS alert if flood occurs and the client can view the information at the front end application interface provided to check the current situation. The alert will be sent to them according to their area. This project is developed using specific hardware and software such as; built-in water level sensor, Siemens MC35i GSM Modem, Windows XP Professional, Microsoft Visual Basic, VMWare and Eagle.

2020

Floods are natural disasters that occur due to climate factors. The impact of floods on property and lives can be too high, resulting in the need to establish a monitoring system. FWMS is a personal flood monitoring system that has the ability to call and send warning via SMS. The warning was sent to not only system users, but also directly to the Fire and Rescue Station as floodwaters rose rapidly to dangerous levels. FWMS is developed using Arduino Uno microcontroller, ultrasonic sensor (HC-SR04) and GSM SIM900A module. Using FWMS, users can apply for flood status in their area in real time via SMS. In FWMS, there are three different levels of flood warning system. The first is the "normal" level, when the situation is normal. The second is the "warning" level, where an SMS will be sent to the users each time a flood is detected. Meanwhile, the third is known as the "danger" level, which will be sent when the depth of the flood that occurs is detected to be higher. For both levels of "warning" and "danger", a loud buzzer will be issued as a warning sound notification to users. Three types of tests were performed on the FWMS to measure its level of performance. These tests were functional tests, prototype system tests, and GSM network performance tests. They were done to ensure that FWMS can be used and function properly as required. The tests have produced positive results and it is potentially to be further enhanced.

2020

Floods are natural disasters that occur due to climate factors. The impact of floods on property and lives can be too high, resulting in the need to establish a monitoring system. FWMS is a personal flood monitoring system that has the ability to call and send warning via SMS. The warning was sent to not only system users, but also directly to the Fire and Rescue Station as floodwaters rose rapidly to dangerous levels. FWMS is developed using Arduino Uno microcontroller, ultrasonic sensor (HC-SR04) and GSM SIM900A module. Using FWMS, users can apply for flood status in their area in real time via SMS. In FWMS, there are three different levels of flood warning system. The first is the "normal" level, when the situation is normal. The second is the "warning" level, where an SMS will be sent to the users each time a flood is detected. Meanwhile, the third is known as the "danger" level, which will be sent when the depth of the flood that occurs is detected...

2015 International Symposium on Mathematical Sciences and Computing Research (iSMSC), 2015

The occurrence of flood causes millions of Ringgit in damages, along with the loss of life and property, and the devastation of agricultural and livestock. Therefore, an effective pre-flood warning system must be developed to mitigate flood losses and lessen the flood effects. However, when developing a warning system for flood disaster, limited communication during the occurrence of floods and the availability of electricity supplies should be taken into account. Thus, this paper proposes a conceptual framework with three (3) main stages: monitor water level, alert flood victims on flood danger status and inform flood victims to relocate to the nearest relief centre with regards to their mobility. This is done by leveraging on the Mobile Telephone Switching Office (MTSO), where warning SMS is broadcasted only to the cellular numbers logged at the affected base station. A system architecture has been designed and a prototype system is developed. The prototype system is made up of a medium sized aquarium tank, a hand pump, HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor, Arduino UNO R3 and IComsat GSM shield. To validate the proposed prototype system, an experiment with controlled water rising effect is conducted in a lab scale setup. The results prove that the proposed prototype system is reliable as it is able to measure water level accurately and broadcast warning SMS immediately to flood victims. Thus, by having an effective real time pre-flood warning system, immediate action can be carried out in order to save lives and minimize the damages caused by flood disaster.

2015 Ninth International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems, 2015

In the region of the Vale because of its natural relief, flood is recorded along the basin of the Itajai River since 1850. Floods are natural phenomena that are often devastating bringing great damage to man and nature. Flee the human capacity, to prevent such phenomena occur. However, it is possible to develop preventive measures to minimize these impacts. Basically there are two types of preventive measures: structural (dams, dikes, river enlargements, reforestation, etc.) and non-structural areas of zoning-based vulnerability and monitoring and warning systems. Monitoring and warning systems are essential to minimize the human and material damage, particularly in urban areas, as they allow the community to be informed (warned) in advance of an extreme event with danger of causing a natural disaster. Thus, the monitoring and warning system enables decisions to be made before the event occurs. In this sense, was created in 1984 through the project Crisis, the monitoring system and alert the Itajai Valley since then operated by Alert System Operation Center of the Regional University of Blumenau (CEOPS / FURB). The monitoring system of Vale held every time the collection and shipment of hydrometeorological data in seventeen points of the basin, allowing perform the hydrometeorological monitoring activities in real-time in bowl. In addition to the telemetric network, make up this system, hydrological forecasting models, calibrated to various parts of the basin, these models help in the decision making process for a flood event. The transfer of information generated in an early warning system are of fundamental importance both to the defense organization, and the community in general. Observing this need, it is proposed to develop a tool alerts so that the information can be transferred in less time possible clearly. If a community is in flood risk areas, the system will facilitate the realization of a register of interested via mobile devices or through a Web service. Initially, this system will be based on devices with Android operating system from Google. This is currently the most popular platform for mobile devices around the world. The objective of this paper is to present a software tool for mobile device applied to the warning system aiming to disseminate real-time information generated by CEOPS thus enabling information and flood warnings to people quickly and easily through text messages. In order to inform people there will be automated routines running every hour so that people can be informed in real time. This information will be available through a Web Service that returns the data from the CEOPS servers.