IOT based Flood Monitoring and Alerting System

Abstract

Abstract: Flooding is considered one of the most destructive natural disasters in the world. In countries like India with climatic conditions occurrence of heavy rain fall and subsequent discharge of water leads to Flood. Flooding creates major damages to life, their habitats and the economy By installing of flood alerting systems near major waterways vital information can be provide so that lives and property can be protected. Normal Weather monitoring and alerting systems are not quick and accurate enough to predict floods in time to prevent personal or environmental damages. The government has to spend tons of money in flood mitigation plans to help the victims and also to reduce the number in the long run damages that can occur after flooding. Since Most of the flood alerting systems involves high cost they are deployed on select locations based on priority. In this project we make use of a cost effective system using raspberry pi board and sensors, to measure rise of water level in rivers and water bodies and alert government authorities and people instantly by transmitting information using IOT. In the present work we have used thingspeak-IOT platform and GSM module. The data can be accessed from android smart phones using things View mobile application at anytime from anywhere in the world where GSM module is used to send the alert message to the people.