Flood monitoring and community based flash flood warning system for flood prone region

Civil Engineering Department, Mangalore Institute of Technology & Engineering, Moodabidri, India

^* Corresponding author: suraj@mite.ac.in

Abstract

Flooding is one of the major disasters occurring in various parts of the world. Due to the high density of buildings, flash floods are prevalent in cities. Floods in India is a huge obstacle to achieving economic growth in the country. Monsoon induced Flash floods hit the Southern Coast of India every year. The flood destroyed thousands of houses and swept some of them down into the sea killing hundreds of peoples, injured many, along with causing several landslides. Southern Coast of India Flood marked in a row of severe monsoon flooding. As a solution to this problem, this proposed work an approach to develop a hypothetical flood alarming system. This research work discusses a proposed solution for the problem by alerting the residents to move to safety before water level rises and also to take necessary precautions to reduce the local risk of flooding via mobile phone which is sent through Short Message Service (SMS) using GSM module. The rainfall and discharge values (flow rate) of the flood affected area are collected and sorted on the daily values. From the rainfall values, flow rate is calculated. It has been observed and estimated discharges were compared analytically and graphically using IoT (Arduino UNO) system.