IOT System: Water Level Monitoring for Flood Management

Abstract

The present of natural disaster such as flood cause loss of life, property, devastation of livestock and agriculture. Flood is known as yearly disaster in Malaysia because of the monsoonal rainfall. Therefore, a system that provide an informative flood notification system that give early warning need to be develop to reduce the losses and early notification to the community in the affected area. The notification system will involve GSM network due to the coverage of GSM network is widespread and mostly available in any places in Malaysia. The notification messages will be sent to user in that area, such as head of village, police station and nearest safety agencies. System architecture designed using Arduino UNO acts as microcontroller of system that will perform various actions such as to observe height of water, temperature and humidity and send SMS through GSM shield. In order to validate the accuracy of proposed system, experiment was conducted using small scale prototype to simulate the real flood conditions. The system will provide real time and reliable measurement of water height and send SMS notification.