Aurassure: Platform For Environmental Awareness

Data Collection

Data Collection is fragmented and not freely available...

Data Collection

Data Collection is fragmented and not freely available.

Manual and time consuming process to collect and consolidate flood data.

Lack of real time system to analyze and monitor flooding events.

Forecasting

Existing models for flood forecasting are coventional and simple...

Forecasting

Existing models for flood forecasting are coventional and simple.

Weather forecasting remains uncertain due to lack of precise data.

Absence of computational and analytic tools to predict an event of flood.

Warnings

Lack of any relevat flood warning and notification system...

Warnings

Lack of any relevat flood warning and notification system.

The available flood warning systems are conventional and slow resulting delay in arrival of informations.

Deploy

Can be easily clamped to any pole, walls, in critical regions of the city like dams, canals, streets etc.

Visualize

Visualize real-time data on water levels, GPS location etc. captured by the sensors.

Warn

The data is analyzed continuously and people are warned of the risks for flooding.

The Aurassure solution for flood monitoring is an automated flood warning and prediction system for cities and communities, providing real-time warnings to reduce flood related disasters by utilizing IoT and Big Data technologies.

Sensors for sensing and monitoring water, inundation levels, rainfall, precipitations and other environmental parameters are deployed at critical zones of the city like traffic posts, dams, pumphouses, canals etc. These sensors continuously transmit data acquired from the surrounding for storage to local or a central server through available mode of communication such as GSM, GPRS, Wi-Fi etc. The application server analyses and procsses ad data received into meaningful information's in real-time and makes them accessible to different departmets, organizations, communities and peoples to notify them in case of any alerts and assist in disaster mitigation and disaster preparedness of the city.

Pumping Station Status

Sump and Penstock Waterlevel, Pump On/Off, Rainfall, Hooter.

Canal Level Sensors

Open and Gated Canal-level Sensors.

Street Inundation Sensors

Raingauge

GPS Vehicle Tracking

The sensor nodes installed at sewerages, drainages and pump stations will monitor the operational status of the pump (on/off) and also the water levels at penstock & sump. The sensors are equipped with local triggers and alarms to warn the pump operators whenever the water levels go beyond the acceptable levels.

Every city drainage system has sumps & penstocks to store the excess runoff of surface water during heavy rainfalls. The water is filtered & conveyed to canals, rivers whenever it reaches acceptable limits.

The sensors are installed to monitor the operational status of the pump weather on/off.

The nodes can be installed to monitor water levels of rivers and canals during and after extreme rainfall events. The sensors will monitor the water level for both open and gated canals. At gated canals the nodes can be installed on both sides of gates to monitor flood water, whenever the water overflows the danger mark the excess waters will be released to the rivers, the sensors will also monitor the gates opening and closing status.

Inundation sensor nodes can be deployed at the most vulnerable spots of the city such as traffic junctions, schools, hospitals, govt. offices, shops, & residential areas to measure the inundation of streets/roads. These sensors will be accompanied by environment sensors for year-round environmental monitoring providing information on temperature, humidity and air quality across the city.

Intutive Dashboards

24 / 7 Monitoring

Prompt Alerts and Notifications

Actionable Insights

Detailed Reports

User Management

Citizens

Citizens can make use of valuable data to take preventive measures to reduce impact of poor air quality and can protect their homes, business from ﬂood damage.

Civil Socities & Academia

Civil society can use data to develop awareness programs to make the city ready for extreme weather events. Academia can conduct research works to develop risk informed urban planning.

Communities

Communities can plan responses based on earlywarning and real-time inundation status and can disseminate flood warning and evacuation information to vulnerable peoples.

Private Sectors

Private sectors can develop context specific innovative products to deal with flood related hazards, air pollution etc. improving people-specific needs before and during extreme events.

City Officials

City ofﬁcials will get valuable data sets to develop ﬂood risk informed urban plans in synergy with other initiatives for a more resilient city. Flood prediction will help authorities evacuate people and property away from downstream in time.

Shops & Vendors

Shops and vendors can monitor ﬂooding near their establishments and can reduce ﬂood vulnerability of assets by installing shop-front sensors.

Stakeholders

Stakeholders can become more empowered and engaged by taking ownership of the system and ensuring regular data collection and sustainability of the system.

Vehicle Tracking

Vehicle tracking through GPS will inform motorists the easy routes to dodge ﬂood and trafﬁc on streets also the informations can be disseminated through large screen displays, websites etc.

URBAN FLOODS DISARRYAING LIVES

Challenges in Flood Monitoring

Data Collection

Data Collection

Forecasting

Forecasting

Warnings

Warnings

Aurassure (Real Time Flood Management System)

Deploy

Visualize

Warn

Architecture

Figure: Aurassure Flood Monitoring Architectural Diagram

Sensor Components

Pumping Station Status

Canal Level Sensors

Street Inundation Sensors

Raingauge

GPS Vehicle Tracking

Pumping Station Operation

Sump/Penstock

Sump/Penstock

Pump Operation Status

Pump Operation Status

Canal Level Sensors

Street Inundation Sensors

Software Solution

Intutive Dashboards

24 / 7 Monitoring

Prompt Alerts and Notifications

Actionable Insights

Detailed Reports

User Management

Solution Benefits

Citizens

Civil Socities & Academia

Communities

Private Sectors

City Officials

Shops & Vendors

Stakeholders

Vehicle Tracking