River Monitoring System for Headwater Phenomena Using Long Range (LoRa) Communication(BUOY ONE)

The unpredictable force of nature, occasionally poses a threat to human beings and the environment. The headwater phenomena are one of the most frequent life-threatening events at river and waterfall spots. In order to reduce the risk, the research aims to create waterfall alarm system for headwater phenomena or named Buoy ONE. The research consists of two systems which are monitoring and data collection communicate through LoRa-RFM communication. The system consists of three sensors which are water flow sensor, ultrasonic sensor and piezo vibration sensor. All these sensors will produce the data when the behavior of river changes in flow speed and debris vibration in the river. The whole system will be control by Arduino UNO R3 as a microcontroller of this project. The data collected will be save in the SD card for further research. Based on the carried-out test, this alarm system has met the objectives set out in the project.