An Appropriate Flash Flood and Landslide Warning System for Developing Countries: A Review
| Author(s) | : | Bansari Joshi, Prof. Yogita Sojitra |
| Institution | : | PG Fellow, ECD AITS, Rajkot, Gujarat, India. |
| Published In | : | Vol. 2, Issue 14 — January 2015 |
| Page No. | : | - |
| Domain | : | Engineering |
| Type | : | Research Paper |
| ISSN (Online) | : | 2348-4470 |
| ISSN (Print) | : | 2348-6406 |
The system that is proposed is an early warningsystem that can provide valuable minutes that would help inmitigation of disasters like landslide and flash floods. Thesystem comprises of a wireless sensor network established onslopes of a mountainside which are prone to landslides andflash floods. The network established is based on a zig bee treetopology. For purpose of demonstration, a two node system hasbeen proposed. The nodes will measure precipitation using atipping rain gauge and landslides using buried microphones orpeizo elements that measure pressure changes. These nodeswould report to a base station which would have a zig beecoordinator as a receiver. This unit, called the base unit willcommunicate with a master unit using a long range RFtransmitter. This unit will be suitably located at a location, say,for example at the di strict collector. When rain detected by thenodes is larger in a given time period, so as to produce a flashflood, this information is sent to the base unit which in turnsends it to the master unit. The master unit sounds an alarmand sends SMS to related officials via a GSM module interfacedwith it.
Bansari Joshi, Prof. Yogita Sojitra, “An Appropriate Flash Flood and Landslide Warning System for Developing Countries: A Review”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 2, Issue 14, pp. -, January 2015.
