Design and Implementation of a Heterogeneous Sensor-based Embedded System for Flood Management

Abstract

Floods are one of the most common forms of natural disasters in the world, and cause huge loss of life, and property. There is a critical requirement for development and installation of enhanced flood forecasting sites in various commonly flooding regions of the world. In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of a novel heterogeneous sensor-based embedded system for flood management. This embedded system enables various types of electronic gages to be deployed at remote locations, wherever mobile network is available. Acquisition of hydrologic data occurs at user defined intervals of time, and is uploaded to a database, through the internet. Information acquired into the database can then be easily viewed from anywhere, used for analysis, and running flood forecasting simulation models. The overall system architecture, module description, and results are described here.