Design of Wireless Sensor Network for Drainage Monitoring System

Abstract

Drainage is defined as the infrastructure for drying the land from the excess and unutilized water; rainwater and waste water. Drainage conditions should be monitored in order to maintain its proper function. In fact, not all areas have drainage monitoring team. It leads to irregular monitoring of the drainage condition. The irregular monitoring has contribution on the clogging of the drainage that imply to the siltation which trigger flooding in the neighbourhood. Manual monitoring is also inefficient. It needs a lot of dedicated persons who are only able to record limited report with low accuracy. These weaknesses lead to the slow handling for problems in drainage. This paper discuss about the design of drainage systems intended to monitor conditions at several points in drainage system using wireless sensor networks. Some sensor nodes are deployed at several determined points to be connected each other.  The recorded data will be stored into a database that is visualized by Geographical Information System (GIS). The monitoring parameters are water levels in drainage, water discharge and rainfall conditions around the drainage area. This system is expected to monitor the drainage conditions real time continuously, and to store the data properly. The presenting data through GIS is expected to be a reference for determining drainage master plan in an area.

Keywords: Drainage, Node sensor, wireless sensor network