low cost system for detecting leakages along artificial dikes with wireless sensor networks
Recently, the number of floods has been increased worldwide enormously. Especially, the damage along flooded rivers cannot be significantly avoided with current techniques. That leads to a high demand for new approaches to detect leakages in the dike body early. Therefore, we present our work in progress on developing a "Leakage Detection System" (LDS). After this system has been installed alongside a dike, it operates autonomously and alarms the headquarter if the water level exceeds a critical threshold. This allows rescue workers to strengthen drenched regions preemptively. Real world experiments in a reconstructed dike environment demonstrate the feasibility of our system approach.
wireless sensor networks dike leakage detection applications disaster prevention