Smart Bridge| A Flood of Ideas

A Flood of Ideas

Your challenge is to develop a new methodology or algorithm that leverages Earth observation and critical infrastructure datasets to estimate damages to infrastructure caused by flooding. Make a measurable impact on the resilience of nations by helping the Earth observations community contribute to the United Nations’ primary effort to reduce disaster risk!

Smart Bridge

Summary

With this project we will be able to avoid disasters such as loss of life and material goods. A good result will be achieved with some satellites and materials to complete the project.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Our proposal is to #help communities that live near a river, which sometimes due to intense rains can overflow and can damage houses and other material things for people, also making it difficult for vehicles to circulate through the streets roads.

How We Developed This Project

Our solution is the following: on the bridge there will be 2 sensors that measure the water level, when the water level reaches the first sensor an alarm will sound to warn the community about what is happening, if it reaches the second sensor The bridge will have folding barriers incorporated that will be 2m high to cover the bridge and the sides of it, so the river will not be destroyed and we will #protect people's homes. In addition, there will be another sensor that will determine if the bridge is in use or not so that the barriers can go up without accidents with an early warning for the different means of transport.

How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

The idea of Smart Bridge was born from providing help and a solution to those who lose material goods due to the #floods, as well as the sensitive loss of human lives, which will help us to reduce or prevent the impact of heavy rains. In addition to taking as a reference the satellites that #JAXA is creating specialized in Meteorology and Telecommunications

Project Demo
Data & Resources

Our raw material would be the humidity sensors since these will be of vital importance to us because they are "the heart" of the project. With the help of meteorological satellites such as those that Jaxa is creating or the NOAA satellites launched by #NASA, they would tell us in which regions of the world they can be on alert for strong tropical waves. in addition to #The Messir Vision which consists of a complete weather forecast workstation system for use by weather professionals and can receive your data from any compatible source, such as WAFS / ISCS, GTS, MSG, Ethernet LAN, Internet, etc. , it integrates a large amount of data in a single system that provides the forecaster with a wide range of tools to display, manipulate and combine this data in graphic or text form.

Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.