TOWARDS AN IP-BASED, ENERGY EFFICIENT AND ADAPTABLE RIVERINE FLOOD MONITORING SYSTEM

Abstract

Riverine flooding has been a critical environmental problem faced by most developing countries around the world today due to the lack of adequate and efficient flood monitoring systems. Such flooding claims several lives annually and destroys farmlands and other properties. However few systems that exists to monitor flood in the developing countries are either expensive, require high energy, inadequate, inefficient or totally depends on complex middleware to connect with existing internet infrastructure for wider public information outreach. Power consumption, complexity, coverage, correctness and adaptability are the key parameters that define the efficiency of any real-time flood monitoring system. In this paper, we proposed an architecture for the development of a real-time, energy efficient, adaptable, simple and globally accessible riverine flood monitoring system using 6loWPAN based Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Our proposed evaluation is to use OMnet++ and TinyOS SIMulator (TOSSIM) WSN simulators based on energy utilization per packet, throughput and response time.Large scale implementation of the proposed system will provide relatively cheaper and affordable flood monitoring system for use in developing countries.