Building a Smart City: A Conceptual Approach to Real-Time Urban Flood Control System

Abstract

Controlling urban flooding is a difficult issue for municipal planners. In order to handle the calamity, current research has focused on flood prediction, detection, monitoring, and warning systems. This research study proposes the water sensitive storm water network model. Based on water sensitive storm water network model, the real-time urban flood control method is proposed. The approach is based on real time flood data for water catchments that were gathered by using sensors and autonomous smart controller. The methodology of a smart flood resilient system prevents the surface flood water and is scalable to smart cities, which employ real-time parameters to automatically control urban floods. The proposed method optimizes the action of actuators in the sub catchment area in terms of early control of flood water.