Wireless sensor networks for flash-flood alerting

Author

Castillo-Effer, M. ; Quintela, Daniel H. ; Moreno, Wilfrido ; Jordan, Ramiro ; Westhoff, Wayne

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2004

fDate

3-5 Nov. 2004

Firstpage

142

Lastpage

146

Abstract

This article presents the ongoing effort in providing the population of the Andean region of Venezuela with a flash-flood alerting system by making use of state-of-the-art wireless communications and information technologies. A key component of the project is a wireless sensor network (WSN) that is used for monitoring the environment and tracking the disaster while it evolves. Currently, the project is at its conceptual inception and system-level design is being carried out. Major design constraints and solutions are presented with an emphasis on the monitoring system based on the WSN.

Keywords

condition monitoring; disasters; floods; geographic information systems; geophysics computing; wireless sensor networks; disaster tracking; flash-flood alerting; information technologies; monitoring system; wireless communications; wireless sensor networks; Contacts; Disaster management; Floods; Geology; Information technology; Monitoring; Rivers; Terrain factors; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Devices, Circuits and Systems, 2004. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Caracas Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8777-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCDCS.2004.1393370

Filename

1393370