Flood surveillance and alert system an advance the IoT

Flooding is one of the major disasters occurs in many areas of Thailand. Such an event resulting in various damages to life, property, mental state and economy of the country. So, if the concerned person can know the water information and related parameters in the areas of real-time flood risk, it allows the alarming act effectively and can reduce the damage caused. This paper proposed the flood surveillance and alert system an advance the Internet of Thing (IoT) technology to bring new products such as disaster alerts. The work of the system is divided into 2 parts: The first part is the client equipment installed in the flood risk area consists of equipment to measure the rate of rainfalls, water level, and water flow rate. The measurement data obtained from all devices will be sent to the cloud server via a wireless network. In addition, the flood surveillance and alert system get the important data value from the Thai Meteorological Department and Royal Irrigation Department Website sent to the cloud server for processing together with the value received from the client equipment. The second part is the display and notification. The flood surveillance and alert system designed to be able to display data values received from the client device via the blink and line applications. This system will help the flood warning system to be more effective and reduce losses that occur to people in flood-risk areas.