Flood Monitoring and Warning System

Flood is one of the natural disasters that occurs every year in Malaysia and also worldwide. It destroys the infrastructure and causes fatalities. Flood monitoring system can monitor the flood level and warn people upon the danger of the flood. Existing flood monitoring techniques include multi-satellite analysis, image classifications and wireless sensor networks. Unlike the existing systems, this project intends to develop a more robust and durable system which can withstand the wet weather condition. It aims to monitor the water level and alert the authorities as well as notifying victims. In order to do this, the system needs to have the basic information such as water conditions, water level and precipitation level to detect the increase of water level during flood. Two major components consisting of the sensor network and the data transmission were designed in this project. A Global Systems for Mobile communication (GSM) was used as the means of transmitting the water level to the user and rescue team to alert the flood condition.