Monitoring and automation of the sewage system in the city of Maceió

Abstract

Flooding in urban basins is due, mainly, to excessive soil subdivision with the consequent sealing of surfaces, the occupation of riparian areas, inadequate drainage works and the obstruction of channels by debris and sediments. Considering the concepts of sustainability of urban drainage, the approach to solutions must consider a good characterization of the region, relating the occurrence of events with their causes and analyzing the effects in the regions of occurrence. One of the ways to obtain such answers is the characterization of problems related to flooding through interviews with the population that occupies affected areas. Aiming at the problem, this work deals with the assumption and practice of a flood risk supervision system, enabling its consistency with sensor networks to assist risk analysts in identifying and warning of the possibility of flooding, triggering the notification service through mobile devices of the interested community. It seeks to minimize, mainly, the social and financial losses caused by floods by predicting the flooding of coastal areas. The proposal of this work is to present a monitoring control of the garbage accumulated in manholes and its automatic removal in the city of Maceió.