Building a Smart City: A Conceptual Approach to Real-Time Urban Flood Control System

Flooding is one of the major disasters occurring in various parts of the world. To reduce the effect of the disaster, a flood warning and monitoring are needed to give an early warning to the victims at certain place with high prone to flood. By implementing Internet of Thing technology into the system, it could help the victim to get an accurate status of flood in real-time condition. This project is developed flood monitoring and early warning system using wireless sensor node at a high prone area of flood. Basically, the sensor node consists of ultrasonic sensor and rain sensor and flow sensor controlled by   the microcontroller of the system which placed at the identified flood area. Buzzer and LED started to trigger and alert the victim when the flood had reached certain level of hazard. Data detected from the sensors are sent to the web server. The flood level’s sent to the notifications could help various organizations for further improvement of the system and flood forecasting purposes. After a test had been conducted, it was found that this prototype can monitor, detect and give warning with notification to the victim earlier before the occurrence of floods.

Keywords: Flow sensor, ultrasonic sensor, GSM