Flood Monitoring and Alerting System

Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Flooding is a phenomenon that almost always occurs every year in various regions throughout Indonesia with a variety of cycle variations. In the rainy season, high rainfall and narrowed watersheds and silting up are no longer able to accommodate the flow of water, causing flash floods. Flood Warning Systems operate with traditional local wisdom that is highly dependent on the availability and responsiveness of the personnel assigned to oversee the river. Therefore, the development innovation of the existing system is expected to be able to provide information and data regularly and be an early warning to flash floods in order to minimize the impact. This research was conducted to design, create and implement an image-based flash flood early warning system prototype based on an Android cellular phone so that the public is expected to be able to access information on possible flash floods through their respective cell phones. Image processing is the basis of this development innovation through the Background Substraction method which is carried out to automatically detect High Levels of Water (TMA) on the control board (Peil) via an IP Camera which is an input parameter for the system and is processed into information for interested parties. The results of analysis of the detection of water level (TMA) on the peil board carried out on the server computer, become input parameters for determining the status of the dam water level. Flood early warning application that is installed on Android smartphone devices receives data from the server computer via the internet network .

2015

This paper demonstrates the design process, implementation and experimental verification of an SMS based Flood Monitoring and Early Warning system. With tools such as credit top-up and storing contact numbers will be done via SMS. Updates on the height of the water level would be texted upon users' request. The system provides timely information and alerts at-risk or threatened populace and relevant authorities by means of SMS when the level of water surpasses the user defined threshold value. The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) module is used for sending the mobile text messages while the Arduino Uno microprocessor is used to read in the input from the pressure sensor and then calculate the height of water. This simple yet effective warning system is deemed to be one of the fastest and cost effective method of alerting the relevant authorities and the vulnerable residence.

The Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (IJEECS), 2023

Floods are a common natural hazard in Malaysia during the monsoon season. It affects millions of people each year that leads to severe deaths and infrastructure destruction. In recent time, flood warning system (FWS) has been a notable topic but it has not been extensively implemented in Malaysia. In this study, we developed a FWS that can interface with connected vehicles in order to provide alerts to drivers while also sending warnings to end users. This type of FWS enables vehicles to connect with one another within a particular radius to broadcast flood information via long range (LoRa) communication technology. When the water level rises over a certain point, the system sends a warning to drivers indicated through a mobile application. Drivers have the option to take alternative route, reducing the likelihood of damage when driving into or near a flooded area. The developed application demonstrates that the warning was able to be instantly displayed to the driver if there is a significant increase in water level. Experimental evidence shows that the driver was able to receive the water level alert and a visual interpretation of the immediate area affected by flood through the application.

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 for Research in Applied Science & Engineering Technology (IJRASET), 2022

Flooding is considered one of the most destructive natural disasters in the world. In countries like India with climatic conditions occurrence of heavy rain fall and subsequent discharge of water leads to Flood. Flooding creates major damages to life, their habitats and the economy By installing of flood alerting systems near major waterways vital information can be provide so that lives and property can be protected. Normal Weather monitoring and alerting systems are not quick and accurate enough to predict floods in time to prevent personal or environmental damages. The government has to spend tons of money in flood mitigation plans to help the victims and also to reduce the number in the long run damages that can occur after flooding. Since Most of the flood alerting systems involves high cost they are deployed on select locations based on priority. In this project we make use of a cost effective system using raspberry pi board and sensors, to measure rise of water level in rivers and water bodies and alert government authorities and people instantly by transmitting information using IOT. In the present work we have used thingspeak-IOT platform and GSM module. The data can be accessed from android smart phones using things View mobile application at anytime from anywhere in the world where GSM module is used to send the alert message to the people.

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.

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.

—In France, government and specific services (SCHAPI) survey overflow stream floods (100.000km²) but flash floods characterized by fast, quick and dangerous responses (other 100.000km 2) remain delicate to predict and difficult to monitor. It's about to explore the conditions of establishment of a proactive and innovative alert system via smartphones, to cope the risks associated with flash floods. The solution must be thought in way to achieve a major challenge: reducing the gap between a state approach (TOP-DOWN), which positions and imposed the state as the main official alert source, and the citizen action (Bottum-UP) which establishes the individual as "Citizen sensor" (both in go up or disseminate information) through the use of its smartphone.Addressing this challenge is indispensable if we hope effectively minimize material and human damages especially when high temporal acuity phenomena such as flash floods happen. Consequently, we propose to use Smartphone technologies: to reduce the time required to alert and to protect population; to enhance information observed by any people at local scales; to built automatic vigilance based on these " citizens-sensors " ; to use field experiment to improve knowledge on flash floods actually available after damaged events; to use geo-location of transmitter sources to alert people located at 5 km around.

CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research - Zenodo, 2022

Flooding is one of the most dangerous natural disasters that can occur due to rising water levels. The damage caused by the flood will be more harmful and the time taken for recovery will take a long period of time. The only way to reduce the damage and save the lives of people is to frequently detect the water level. The level of the water in systems such as dams, reservoirs, etc., is to be frequently tested and monitored. The water level can be predicted by the proposed system. The Internet of Things (IoT) is an embedded system of hardware and software. Where hardware includes chips and sensors and software includes data storage and analysis, the communication between any systems is done through wireless sensor networks. IoT always connects the physical world to the internet with the help of sensors within or connected to it. Where in this system, IoT is connected to some sensors to have a real-time calculation. These level predictions are transmitted to the application developed with the help of Android to have an alert. In developed countries like the US, Japan, and so forth, the flooding issue is limited altogether and doesn't influence much because of the accessibility of the crisis framework. Yet, the agricultural nations like India, Brazil, and so on are enduring a ton during the flood. The number of people who have died as a result of flooding in various parts of our country has been steadily increasing. Two years prior, the flood that happened in Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu, came about with an immaterial death toll and property. At whatever point, flooding happens, living regions close to the riverbank and downstream territory are more seriously influenced than others. They should be alarmed significantly sooner to have an additional opportunity to clear it right away. During the Chennai flood in 2015, counterfeit word got out. For example, a bogus message which said two lakes had penetrated and Chennai had been cut off from the rest of the areas spread frenzy among workers, particularly those that were abandoned for quite a long time on the blood vessel Mount Road on Monday night. To keep away from the present circumstance, we need an approved admonition framework. Our framework gives such data so that individuals can keep away from bogus news. Furthermore, the framework utilizes voice call as it is useful for individuals who don't have a clue how to peruse the instant message. The Flood Monitoring System research is totally based on the GSM sim900A module, which will be interfaced with the most well-known microcontroller, the "ATmega328", the equivalent microcontroller which is utilized in the Arduino Uno. A water level observing sensor will likewise be associated with this microcontroller to monitor the water level. As of now, I have chosen to utilize the

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.

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2017

Design and field test equipment of river water level detection based on ultrasonic sensor and SMS gateway as flood early warning

In Malaysia, floods are the natural disasters that happen every year during the monsoon season from November until January. These flood caused serious damage to houses, roads, businesses, public facilities and even killed people. Though many steps have been taken by the government in order to prevent these incidents, but it seems went unsolved. Here, the Flood Detection and Warning System (FLoWS) is proposed in helping to monitor and manage this critical situation by providing crucial information (i.e. flood conditions, plan and preparation, and many others) to the public and the local authorities at the affected area. The system is able to measure the water level and alert the public and the local authorities by sending a notification (i.e. SMS and MMS) regarding the flood conditions. Furthermore, the system enables the public and the local authorities to see the live graph data of the water level using the Android application on the mobile phone.

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2018

Floods are the most damaging natural disaster in this world. On the occasion of heavy flood, it can destroy the community and killed many lives. The government would spend billions of dollars to recover the affected area. It is crucial to develop a flood control system as a mechanism to reduce the flood risk. Providing a quick feedback on the occurrence of the flood is necessary for alerting resident to take early action such as evacuate quickly to a safer and higher place. As a solution, this paper propose a system that is not only able to detect the water level but also able to measure the rise speed of water level and alerted the resident. Waterfall model is adopted as the methodology in this project. Raspberry Pi is used to collect data from the water sensor and transmit the data to GSM module for sending an alert via SMS. The analysis will be done to show how the Raspberry Pi will be integrated with the smartphone to give an alert. The system is tested in an experiments consist of two different environment in order to ensure that the system is able to provide accurate and reliable data. The project is an IoTbased which significantly in line with the Industrial Revolution 4.0, supporting the infrastructure of Cyber-Physical System.

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2020

Flooding is one of the biggest natural disasters that occurs frequently around the world. It can occur without warning and the after effect of it leaves great damage to the surrounding environment and exposes life threatening to citizen. Therefore, early flood detection and monitoring system with the implementation of Internet of Things and Global Positioning System is proposed in order to reduce the risks that may cause flooding. The aim of this project is to provide the information of a current water level in a drain. When water level increases to a certain level, the system will send a warning notification to users indicating three categories of water level, which are safe, warning and critical level. This system contains an ultrasonic sensor to detect the current water level and at the same time allows users to observe the period of the water level from their phone so that users are more aware of when flooding ought to happen. Moreover, the system consists of a flooding avoidanc...

International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology IJRASET, 2020

As Maharashtra faced recent devastating flood in Kolhapur, Sangli and Satara there arise a need of efficient flood monitoring systems. Flood are the most damaging natural disaster , on the occasion of heavy flood ,it can destroy the community and killed many peoples.. The government would spend billions of to recover the affected area. It is important to develop a flood control systemas a mechanism to reduce the flood risk .Providing a quick feedback on the occurrence of the flood is necessary for alerting resident. Flood forecasting and the issuing of flood warings are effective ways to reduce damage. The proposed system will be good because it has better coordination of monitoring and transmission technologies which are adaptable to flood conditions. This system would be beneficial to the community for decision making and evacuation planning .