Kervee S. Quinto Rian Fritz D. Jalandoni XZ Louise Pauleen S. Palmares (APRIL 2015)
Philippine Science High School Western Visayas Campus – Department of Science and Technology (DOST-PSHS WVC), Brgy. Bito-on, Jaro, Iloilo City 5000, Philippines
Flood Warning Systems (FWS) update and alert people and government departments about the water level in a certain point. There are many FWS that are implemented nowadays. Each has its own ways of communicating to the persons involved. From direct manual approach to radios, these are the common ways of communicating in a Flood Warning System found currently. In this research, the Flood Warning System features the ways of communicating with the popular trend of sending via SMS and develops new means of communicating which is using social media. The SPAInFWS, just like any other Flood Warning System must have an input, a central processor and an output. Connected to the Arduino are the three sensors placed vertically at different positions to a tube relating to READY, GET SET and GO alert levels. The positions of the sensors are adjustable to whatever height it is declared. These sensors are called float switches which is like an on and off button. Whenever these sensors send an input to the Arduino, the system would send the message via Short Message Service (SMS) and through social media specifically Twitter. Float sensors one to three have different messages to send corresponds to the different alert levels. The system is named to be independent and one key factor of an independent system is an independent power supply. Solar panels are common used nowadays for continuous power supply (Hachour, 2013). Basing on this fact, the system used solar panel as its main power source.