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An experiment with reflective middleware to support grid-based flood monitoring

✍ Scribed by Danny Hughes; Phil Greenwood; Gordon Blair; Geoff Coulson; Paul Grace; Florian Pappenberger; Paul Smith; Keith Beven


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
224 KB
Volume
20
Category
Article
ISSN
1532-0626

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Abstract

Flooding is a growing problem, which affects more than 10% of the U.K. population. The cost of damage caused by flooding correlates closely with the warning time given before a flood event, making flood monitoring and prediction critical to minimizing the cost of flood damage. This paper describes a wireless sensor network (WSN) for flood warning, which is capable of not only integrating with remote fixed‐network grids for computationally intensive flood modelling purposes but also performing on‐site grid computation. This functionality is supported by the reflective and component‐based GridKit middleware, which provides support for both WSN and grid application domains. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.