Flood Monitoring System Using Mobile SCADA Based on Multiple Environment Indications

Abstract

The impact of mitigating flood occurrence in the rural and urban areas has become crucial as it has affected government policies for countries that are prone to flood disaster. Efforts and funds have been put up to a higher level of capabilities to ensure that coping and managing flood disaster could be resolved. Several initiatives made in managing flood are: effectively monitoring the potential at-risk inundated area, improving the river water irrigation and drainage and undertaking the environmental pollution. This chapter basically focusses more on the improvement of flood monitoring system device at the potential flood area. The approach of ubiquitous mobile SCADA offers a low-cost, portable, and small in size flood monitoring system device with easily accessible data. An easy web monitoring of environment surrounding anywhere and at any time offers a real-time data updated with a very minimum delay of each and every environment data required. There are several sensors like ultrasonic, sound, temperature and humidity, water drop and vibration sensors are equipped together with one small monitoring system platform. The alert of water level condition is notified through a beeping buzzer and light LED notation of various colors of green, yellow and red, which notify any increase of water exceeded. The platform is powered by a rechargeable battery that allows the platform to be mobile and portable. Hence, flood monitoring system platform promotes a low-cost, easy-to-handle and ubiquitous data updated device for a better monitoring system platform.

Citation

Sa’at, N.I.M., Daud, S.M. and Mantoro, T. (2018), "Flood Monitoring System Using Mobile SCADA Based on Multiple Environment Indications", Improving Flood Management, Prediction and Monitoring (Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management, Vol. 20), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 113-120. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2040-726220180000020019