Floods are a major challenge for many countries today. Over the last few years, the UK has suffered badly from a series of violent storms that have caused widespread flooding, both in terms of coastal areas and river floods. Industry experts predict that due to the effects of climate change, these types of storm are likely to continue over the next decade and beyond, with the economic cost to the UK being as high as ￡6 billion. Despite significant achievements in the UK's river flood forecasting and early warning systems, there is still a need for effective tools and measures, either to prevent the floods or to at least decrease their negative impact on agricultural and urban areas. This information can be used by stormwater and flood pumping stations to avoid the damage that can occur after the flood. One of the main issues is the condition monitoring of these pumping stations. In some cases, these stations are not ready for an instant response to natural disasters such as floods. In order to prevent unexpected failures of the drives or the pumps themselves, it is necessary to monitor the condition of the equipment. One method of achieving this is to install condition monitoring devices on the pumps and motors to provide advanced warnings of any impending bearing failures.
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