Wireless sensor network based flood/drought forecasting system

Early warnings with respect to natural disasters, specially floods and drought predictions play a vital role in saving precious lives and assets. Most of the population of Pakistan gets affected by the floods/drought every year. A huge loss associated with the natural disaster includes finance, asset and precious lives. In this paper we present a novel wireless sensor network (WSN) based flood/drought forecasting system (FDFS) for Pakistan to help authorities gain early information regarding flooding/drought possibilities and take timely measures for the relief. The proposed system has been simulated and tested using Network Simulator (NS).