Cost-Effective Flash Flood Warning System To Provide Early Alerts
Taipei, Taiwan — Flash floods are occurring in ever-increasing frequencies all over the world. According to NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), flash floods are caused by heavy or excessive rainfall in a short period of time, generally less than 6 hours. They can occur within minutes or a few hours of excessive rainfall. With its usual occurrence at night, the flash flood generally causes serious damages in the urban areas.
Hence, beyond computer-aided forecast systems, web-based data acquisition systems and ALERT and flood risk assessments, a timely, accurate, handy warning system for instantly, continuously reporting the real status of rainstorm around a relevant site would allow the neighboring people to take action for disaster mitigation, thus immensely saving lives and reducing damages.
Innovated and developed by TWSI (Taiwan Water & Soil Instrumentation, Inc., a leading and prestigious instrumentation lab in Taiwan), the "Local Early Warning System for Flash Flood" is meant to satisfy this urgent need. It alerts with a buzzer at multiple, easy-to-set warning thresholds, allowing for people to take timely preventive measures. Via the input(s) from a remote or on-site tipping bucket rain gauge and an optional float-driven level transmitter, its smart, easy-to-read 25mm character in height LED panel gathers and simultaneously tabulates multiple, dynamic rainfall intensities, for disaster forecasting purposes, as well as multiple, dynamic water levels, for demonstrating there real-time water rising status at a designated site. Moreover, it is equipped with smart power-saving and built-in backup batteries, allowing it to provide the 24-hour-strong warning capability during any possible power failure. An optional GSM modem is also available for the SMS (Short Message Service) application.
With its convenient system installation made possible by its unique feature of wireless transmission up to 1km, it might be cost-effectively adopted in a variety of applications, such as, Urban flash Flood Warning System for Lives, Urban Flood Warning System for Below-grade Parking Garage, Pump Station Monitoring System, Debris Flow Warning System, Water Intake Control System, Real-time Landslide Monitoring System, etc.
Established in 1979, Taiwan Water & Soil Instrumentation, Inc. (TWSI) has been dedicated to researching, developing and manufacturing instruments applicable for water measurement, water resource management and environmental monitoring systems.
In addition to providing its own-branded instruments, e.g., data loggers, level and flow transmitters, RF telemetry, on-line water quality monitoring system etc., TWSI has completed over 70% of water resource management projects available in Taiwan. All TWSI products are designed to be user-friendly, easy installation, and high precision. Meanwhile, TWSI keeps on developing innovative products for improvement on environmental protection instruments in addition to those granted patents in USA, UK, Japan, China & Taiwan.
SOURCE: TWSI