Connected Vehicle Communication Concept for Flood Level Warning Using Low Cost Microcontroller

Abstract

In Malaysia, there are some areas that frequently have flood due to ditch blockage or sudden rising of river’s water. Most floods can cause vehicles and other infrastructures to be damaged. The victims of every flood that occur could be reduced if they receive any message through a communication medium to alert in advance. Therefore, this study aims to develop a prototype system to send a message on flood detection via wireless connection using ESP8266 as a means of communication. This prototype is specifically applied for vehicles to be warned much earlier. The outcome shows that sending flood detection message by using the communication medium is possible and took less than a minute to transmit the message. The flood detection data are saved in Firebase cloud.