International Journal of Engineering Trends and Technology (IJETT) – Volume 67 Issue 11- Nov 2019

A Literature survey on Internet of Things based

Flood Detection and Monitoring System Using
Raspberry Pi
Sheikh Haroonsafdar¹ ,Malashree G²
ASP & HOD, Dept. Of EEE,Assistant professor,Dept.Of EEE
HKBK College of EngineeringHKBK College of Engineering
Nagawara Bengaluru -45Nagawara Bengaluru -45

ABSTRACT II. OBJECTIVES

This project describes the design and implementation of i)To monitor rise in water level.
a wireless sensor network for Flood detection and
monitoring. The sensor network was deployed in a ii)To reduce losses in flood prone areas.
commercial windmill or near the sea shore. The sensor
node was developed using off-the-shelf components iii)To avoid spread of false information.
and consists of sensors like wind speed sensor,
Humidity sensor, Accelerometer sensor, Temperature iv)To provide an accurate and reliable alerting system.
sensor and Raspberry pi powered with IOT. Real- time
III. LITERATURE REVIEW
data enabled the operators to characterize the
operating parameters at the seashore and also to
1.ThinagaranPerumal, MdNasir Suleiman, C. Y. Leong.
respond immediately to any changes in the controlled
IoT Enabled Water Monitoring System IEEE Explore,
parameters.
2015
I. INTRODUCTION
In this paper [10],[11],[12] proposed an IoT based
water monitoring system that measure water level in
The objective of this project is to design a simple, easy
real time. The prototype is based on idea that the level
to install, Raspberry pi-based circuit to monitor and
of water can be very important parameterwhen it comes
record the values of sensors at the natural environment
to the flood occurrencesespecially in disaster prone
like sea shore and river side that are modified and in
area. A water level sensor is used to detect the desired
case of flood or tsunami and so on.. The processor used
parameter and if the water level reaches the parameter
is a low power, cost efficient chip manufactured by
the signal will be freed in real time to social network
NXP of on-chip memory It communicates with the
like Twitter. A cloud server was configured as data
various sensor modules in real-time in order to monitor
repository. The measurement of water level are
the wind speed, moisture , temperature efficiently near
displayed in remote dashboard. The proposed solution
sea shore.. Here the data can be read through IOT to
with integrated sensory system that allows inner
any of the remote place using Internet of things and also
monitoring of water quality. Alerts and relevant data
parameters can be passed from IOT enabled mobile
are transmitted over the internet to a cloud server and
phone to sea shore in the form of voice guidance to
can be received by user terminal owned by consumer.
make the people alert.. In this project we going use
The outcome of water measurement is displayed in web
Raspberry Pi, which is the current dominant processor
based remote dashboard.
in mobile based products and software development
Tool. 2. Amjath Ali J 1 , B. Thangalakshmi 2 , A. Vincy
Beaulah3 1 Lecturer, Department of Electrical and
Electronics Engg., Ibra college of Technology,

Disaster-LINK is a smart IoT device that acts as an

alarm and monitoring system during natural disasters
that operates by communicating over internet. It comes
with Wi-Fi support for internet connectivity and uses an

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IoT cloud platform which helps to control, monitor and environment using onboard sensors and send early
manage the device. The device senses its local warnings to family, friends and colleagues immediately
when it finds a disaster situation. It is also able to proposed system accurately detect flood alert compared
receive such warning alarms from other similar devices to the existing flood alert system.
available on the internet and provide the user with
voice, flashing light, SMS and E-mail alarm 4. Edward Udo, EtebongIsongArticle · January 2014
notifications. The ultimate aim of the project is to
spread the disaster warning information quickly through Nigeria as a whole and Uyo, a southern province in
internet and make it available to those who need it as Nigeria, in particular is facing a serious challenge with
early as possible. The fact that internet is faster than the an increasing frequency of flood in recent years. It is
seismic waves of an earthquake, and much faster than a therefore crucial to utilize the state-of-the-art sensing
flood or tsunami, helps the device to deliver the alert and communication technologies to monitor and detect
message much before the actual calamity reach the flood occurrences The role of the designed Flood
user’s location giving that vital extra time to take those Monitoring and Detection System (FMDS) based on
precautionary emergency measures. WSN is to continuously monitor, detect and report the
environment's status to a control unit using relative
3.Syed NazmusSakib ; TanjeaAne ; NafisaMatin ; M. humidity, temperature, water level and amount of
Shamim Kaiser rainfall as flood indicators, whose values are gathered
by sensors in the sensor field. The flood monitoring and
This paper presents a neuro-fuzzy controller based detection system monitors and know the development
flood monitoring system using wireless sensor network. of floods and then send flood notification SMS to the
The distributed sensor nodes use IEEE 802.15.4 inhabitant of such zones for necessary action. The
protocol, also called low rate wireless personal area developed Flood Monitoring and Detection System
network, to collect the sensor information such as water (FMDS) covers 15 flood prone regions in Uyo
level data from the river, rainfall, wind speed and air metropolis in AkwaIbom State, Nigeria. The GIS map
pressure data from a selected site. In order to validate of the flood prone zones is incorporated into the FMDS.
the proposed flood monitoring system, Chadpur, a flood The system is composed of three major modules which
prone district of Bangladesh, has been considered as are the sensor field module, surveillance module and
selected site. The sensors information are sent to the the phone module. The system was developed using
distributed alert center via Arduino microcontroller and Java Programming Language built into surveillance
the XBee Transceivers. At the distributed alert center, module of the system. The developed system is robust
XBee Transceiver and a Raspberry Pi microcomputer and gives timely alert of flood occurrences.
are used to generate flood alert based on sensor
information and two decade flood data and these data IV. SOFTWARE COMPONENT
are stored in a database. Sensor information are
analyzed by the intelligent neuro-fuzzy controller used 1. Embedded c
in Raspberry Pi microcomputer to announce the flood 2. Python
alerts. The wireless sensor network is connected as 3. Keil-c compiler
mesh topology which can send signals over far 4. Flash magic burner software.
distance. The performance evaluation reveals that the 5. IOT based App
6. Linux

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V. BLOCK DIAGRAM
Server

Monitor

Temp sensor
IOT S
Vibration sensor
PC
Wind speed
Humidity Sensor Raspberry Pi sensor

VIII. ADVANTAGES

VI. HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS 1.Impact of flooding is reduced

1. Raspberry Pi 2.Warning give people time to move positions upstairs,

2. Wind speed sensor put (sandbags in position and to evacuate).
3. Humidity Sensor
3.Low maintenance solution for detecting natural
4. Vibration sensor
calamities applications.
5. Temperature sensor
6. IOT 4.The timely operation of flood control structures (e.g.
7. Monitor gates, temporary flood defenses) preventing inundation
of property and land.
VII. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION
5.The removal of property to somewhere above the
1. Operating voltage of embedded circuitry is flood level or out of the flood plain.
3.3vdc
2. Current consumption of device in active mode IX. APPLICATIONS
200mill amp
3. Operating frequency of device is 10MHZ to 1.It can be used to detect earthquakes.
60MHZ
2.It can be used to monitor natural calamities.

3.It can be used to predict the floods and Tsunami.

4.Ability to alert multiple mobile users.

5.To avoid wastage of water.

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X. FUTURE WORKS college of Technology, Iot Based Disaster Detection And

Early Warning Device, IEEE Explore, 2014.
[3] Syed Nazmus, Sakib M. Shamim, Kaiser. An intelligent Flood
The system provides a real world application of internet Monitoring System for Bangladesh using Wireless Sensor
of things and offer services like accurate level Network, ResearchGate, May 2016.
monitoring directly and indirectly. [4] Edward Udo, EtebongIsong.FloodMonitoring and Detection
Precise and accurate detection of water level will System using Wireless Sensor Network, ResearchGate, and
January 2014.
improve the data collection system for the monitoring [5] JagadeeshBabuMallisetty and Chandrasekhar V.Internet of
station. Things BasedReal Time Flood Monitoring and Alert
The flood alert information’s can be displayed on LED Management system, May 2012.
display boards for road users and for safety reasons [6] JaymalaPatil, AnujaKulkarni.Wireless Sensor Network Using
Flood Monitoring, IJCSMC, Vol. 2, Issue. 11, November
could be placed at strategic locations. 2013.
The Flood Observatory System will be easy to install [7] RaihanUl Islam. Wireless Sensor Network Based Flood
and maintained if it is powered by solar cells. Prediction Using Belief Rule Based Expert System, Luleå
University of Technology 2017.
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[2] Amjath Ali J 1 , B. Thangalakshmi 2 , A. Vincy Beaulah3 1 Disaster Management (Gi4DM), 18–21 March 2018, Istanbul,
Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engg., Ibra Turkey.

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