Intellectual and remotely self monitored Flood Observatory System for high frequency flood prone locations

摘要

One of the most devastating natural disasters in the world is flooding. Flooding is a great treat towards mankind in many ways especially in damaging agriculture land, residential areas and cities with high cost of lives. Flooding also has a great impact towards the economy of a country. Countries with a high frequency of flooding have to spend a large amount of money on flood mitigation plans. Most flood mitigation plans are expensive and only some plans can be implemented based on priority. Cost and safety are prime concerns and many researchers around the world were engaged to develop the most efficient ways of monitoring and innovating early flood warning system. This paper highlights one of a possible flood detection and warning system to efficiently monitor critical flood prone locations on a real time basis.A Flood Observatory System is developed to send water level or water rise information from remote flood prone locations, where human excess is limited due to distance and weather factors, to a more centralized location. The ability to receive real time information on water levels in flood prone locations would enable both government and private organizations to react to the imminent danger in an effective manner. When the real time flood information can be received instantly, public safety organizations and other emergency managers can effectively plan their resource deployment within the limited time of alert. The water rise information from flood prone locations could be used to save life's and properties in many ways. This simple Flood Observatory System with stand-alone features could then be a practical flood alert system.