Wireless sensor network (WSN) based early flood warning system

Water is one of the most essential and necessary element that we require in our daily life, although it may become life threatening for the people living near to the river bank. In many cities of Pakistan, controlling the flood situation is a major problem. Due to the poor management and lack of dams, the chances of flood may increase exponentially. First priority is to save the lives of the people living close to the river bank, hence technology can play an important role in this regard to solve this problem at some extent. In this paper, a Wireless sensor network (WSN) based system is proposed to warn the nearby villages about the impending flood situation so they may take precautionary step to save their lives. Four nodes are introduced for four different river locations to constantly monitor the flow and the level of the river water. These four nodes will deliver their information to a master node holding all the necessary information and will generate a warning in case of flood. © 2018, Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Computer Applications and Management.