Design of prototype decision support system for flood detection based on ultrasonic sensor

Sekolah Tinggi Teknologi Garut, Department of Informatics, Jl. Mayor Syamsu No. 1, Garut 44151, Indonesia

^* Corresponding author: yseptiana@sttgarut.ac.id

Abstract

The system of awareness of the overflow of river water that causes flooding cannot work automatically and in real time in providing a warning about the elevation of river surface that potentially flood. It's caused residents who live around the river area do not know the situation when the river overflow. There are several alternatives to detect river overflow, one of them is by using microcontroller ultrasonic sensor based. The research aims to design prototype decision support system based on the ultrasonic sensor for flood detection that works automatically detects the river overflow. The software development model used is Prototype Model. The result of this research is a prototype in the form of microcontroller ultrasonic sensor based which can be used as flood detection decision support system that will know the height of river surface designed to detect certain level about flood potency with a low-level error.