Abstract
The importance of preventing damage from pluvial flooding has been increasing under global climate change. The discovery of premonitory symptoms of pluvial flooding enables effective evacuation and inundation prevention activities. However, apparatuses that automatically detect this in real time are not widespread. There are difficulties in the cost of installing them and the agreements made by the parties concerned, especially in cities. To solve this problem, we devised an apparatus to be installed inside a catch basin that detects its water level. The water level in the catch basin may indicate a sign of pluvial flooding, and the number of people involved in operating the catch basin is smaller than that of facilities on the ground. In order to reduce the cost of installation and operation, we adopted Low Power Wide Area (LPWA), which is a communication method that enables wireless transmission of detected information over long distances for a long time using batteries. So far, for catch basins, a wireless transmission experiment was conducted using LoRa, which is part of LPWA. However, Sigfox, which uses the same frequency as LoRa but has a different wireless system, has not been verified. In this study, the reliability of wireless communication was assessed by apparatuses using LoRa and Sigfox side by side in each catch basin in two places in a densely populated city. The number of experiment days and transmissions differed depending on the apparatus, with the number of days ranging from 97–151 and the number of transmissions from 2328–3748. The reliability in the experiment ranged from 99.97–99.53%. The experimental results showed that wireless transmission was possible with high reliability using either the LoRa or Sigfox system from inside these catch basins. This study expands the options for communication infrastructure that can be used for apparatuses that detect premonitory symptoms of pluvial flooding. This will enable a reduction in installation costs and will expand the range of areas of potential installation.
Funder
the Council for Science, Technology, and Innovation
the Cross-Ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program
Japan Science and Technology Agency
Publisher
Fuji Technology Press Ltd.
Subject
Engineering (miscellaneous),Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
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