Flood Warning and Monitoring System (FWMS) using GSM Technology

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.

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...

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...

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering

The frequency of floods that often occur in Indonesia has made floods one of the national disasters designated as national priorities. The flood disaster has caused many casualties and material losses. For the government to anticipate more flood victims, a flood information system is needed that can provide real-time flood information in the form of location information and the level of flood level. Based on these problems, this research article aims to build a flood disaster information system in real-time location-based information using data communication based on Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). The system design is built in two systems, namely the client system or flood detector consisting of ultrasonic sensor components as input modules, Arduino Uno microcontrollers as processing modules and SIM900 modules as output components. Next is a server system consisting of Wavecom GSM Modem as input component and PHP Engine software, mySQL database, Apache Web Server as data processing. In processing flood information, the client system sends location and water level data using SIM900 in the form of SMS to the server system. The server system processes the data so that it produces information on the location and height of the flood that can be distributed through the website. This study produced a location-based flood disaster information system prototype with data communication between flood detectors and flood information system servers using Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) media.

Flood is one of the natural disasters which cannot be avoided totally. Every year, death rate due to flood increases because of absence of early warning. To solve this problem, this paper demonstrates the idea and implementation of a Flood Monitoring and Alerting system using Internet of Things (IOT) technology. This system comprises of three parts. The first part measures the height of the water using ultrasonic distance measuring sensor. The second part is sending the height information to web page using the Ethernet shield. The third part is making call to residences to alert them about flood through voice message. The call is made through the most popular mobile standard Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) and ARP33A3 is used to play the recorded voice message.

International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (IJRTE), 2019

Flooding is one of the national disaster tragedies that currently often occurs in various countries. Therefore the government encourages various government, private and community institutions to develop disaster mitigation systems. Disaster mitigation systems are short-term programs aimed at reducing disaster victims. Therefore, this paper aims to describe the results of research in building flood monitoring information systems by developing flood data visualization systems in many locations. The system as a whole consists of two systems namely a flood detection system as a client and a flood monitoring information system as a server. the two systems communicate in sending flood data using GSM services, namely SMS. Flood detection systems are designed using ultrasonic sensors, temperature sensors, rain sensors, Arduino Uno microcontrollers and GSM modules. While the flood monitoring information system server was designed using a GSM modem, web server application, mySQL database, PHP...

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.

International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE), 2019

The early warning systems for flood management have been developed rapidly with the growth of technologies. These system help to alert people early with the used of Short Message Service (SMS) via Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). This paper presents a simple, portable and low cost of early warning system using Arduino board, which is used to control the whole system and GSM shields to send the data. System has been designed and implemented based on two components which is hardware and software. The model determines the water level using float switch sensors, then it analyzes the collected data and determine the type of danger present. The detected level is translated into an alert message and sent to the user. The GSM network is used to connect the overall system units via SMS. 1. INTRODUCTION Flood is commonly occured natural disaster around the world. It will cause unsafely manner to human by causing death, injury, damages and great property losses. In Malaysia, flood is considered as norm disaster that happen escpecially during monsoon season at the end of the year. As Malaysia located near the equator, the most worst climatic related natural disasters are monsoonal flood. Communities living around the low-laying area are facing high risk of losses caused by flooding. This natural disaster is inevitable but with advance warning system and early response, the destruction can be minimized. Forecasting and warning systems is one of the methods that could significantly mitigate the impact of losses. Alerting or warning to notify the public about the upcoming disaster in the early stages is very important as safety measures can be taken to prevent unwanted mishaps. The early warning system must be able to provide timely warning of imminent dangers, which gives the local authorities time to prepare for effective response. There is a lack of concern in the substantial of an early warning system eventhough the technologies are widely available. Warning might fail to reach the local authorities and sometimes it may not be understood due to ineffective or unsuitable alert tools of communication channels. However, with the advance of technologies produce simple and low cost tools that can be used to solve such problems. This paper focuses on flood disaster monitoring system to help local authority to provide more systematic solution. The designed system can detect the floods and give continuous alert or information. The information of water level can be detected by the sensors. The goal of the system is to alert the community, so that safety precautions can be taken to protect their life and properties. The developed system utilizes GSM and SMS to transmit data from sensors to the respective users through their mobile phone. By using GSM module, GSM network can be used since it is much more accountable during flood season. An Arduino UNO

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.

Development of flood early warning technology has grown rapidly. The technology has led to improvements in terms of communication and information technology. The use of the Internet of Things model (IOTs) has provided significant development to the development of early warning information systems. In this article is the development of a prototype model of flood monitoring information systems using Android has been designed by combining ultrasonic sensors as a water level detector, rain sensor, temperature sensor and moisture sensor. Arduino Uno Microcontroller Module used as sensor data processor, U-Blox Neo 6m GPS module as location detection and Ethernet module as sender of sensor data to station of flood early warning information system. The design of the prototype produces information on flood elevation, rain conditions, ambient temperature and soil moisture along with its location based on Google Maps interface on mobile android.

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

International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology (IJERT), 2013

https://www.ijert.org/natural-disaster-alert-system-using-gsm-network https://www.ijert.org/research/natural-disaster-alert-system-using-gsm-network-IJERTV2IS90917.pdf Natural disasters like floods & earthquakes are the great threats towards the mankind which cannot be prevented but careful planning of the emergency measures by 'alert' system can often reduce disastrous consequences. Recent technological advances in communication made new trends in the disaster monitoring system. The system focuses on monitoring water level & earth vibrations via sensors, & generates alert signal when water level or level of earth vibrations crosses a threshold. Alert message is Voice Message Service to the concerned authorities through their mobile phones. It also includes Public address (PA) system to broadcast the messages to the local people, nearby the river side. The module can also send status of water elevation to anyone who knows the system's modem number. This module would be beneficial to the community and act as a precautionary action to save lives in the case of flood or earthquake disaster.

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

Flood disaster is a disaster that often occurs in various countries today. Indonesia is one of the countries that have frequent frequency of flood disasters. Based on these problems, the government encourages the role of government and private institutions to jointly reduce disaster victims by increasing research and development models to reduce disaster victims. This study aims to integrate disaster monitoring information systems with geospatial information systems for flood disaster locations. The prototype was developed in two systems namely a flood detector system and a flood monitoring information system with the addition of a geospatial information system. In the flood detector system using input components, namely ultrasonic sensors, temperature sensors, rain sensors. The processing component uses the Arduino Uno microcontroller and the output component is the GSM SIM900A module. the flood monitoring information system uses Apache Web Server, PHP, MySQL database, Gammu and Google Maps API. The results showed that the flood detector system was able to send sensor data to the flood monitoring information system server using the SMS Gateway service. Sensor data that has been processed by the server produces flood location information based on Google Maps accompanied by information on flood height, temperature and status of rain conditions at the location of the flood detector. The information is distributed to users in web form. And information is sent by the flood detector periodically and updated in real-time by the flood monitoring information system server.