Flooding Detection System Based on Water Monitoring and ZigBee Mesh Protocol

Abstract

Indonesia was still many handling of natural disasters using traditional methods. Therefore increasing the ability to handle natural disasters through sharing experiences or research in this field was very important. Several studies had been conducted in the field of natural disaster detection system using internet network. But natural conditions and internet network blank spots became obstacles of the disaster detection system in remote areas. So it was needed a system with flexible network, energy efficient and accurate in data sending. This research proposes a system of flooding detection with mesh network, ZigBee device and sensors of water conditions. By using mesh network and ZigBee take an advantage to be implemented in the remote area. Sensors would detect the indication of flooding and send the data trough ZigBee. The experiment showed that mesh network with the distance between nodes max75m was the best result and condition.