Design and Implementation of Monitoring and Early Warning System for Urban Roads Waterlogging

Waterlogging happens almost in every rainstorm in city roads and the concave type of overpasses in Beijing. It causes to serious effect for the security of people's daily travel. For resolving this kind of problem, this paper designed a monitoring network by water level sensors and other technologies of internet of things, and developed a monitoring and early warning system for detecting the real-time information of waterlogging conditions in urban roads. This system can capture the real time information of waterlogging depth, make a fast query statistics for certain road or area, and also provide the short message service for the public. It is very convenient for the managers working in department of flood control and command center to collect the real-time information of waterlogging status around urban roads. This is helpful for the local government to perform the correspondingly emergency plan and issue waterlogging information for the public, so as to reduce the impact on the security of people's travel caused by the suddenly bad weather.