The Wireless Sensor Network(WSN)is a promising technology that could be used to monitor rivers’water levels for early warning flood detection in the 5G context.However,during a flood,sensor nodes may be washed up or ...The Wireless Sensor Network(WSN)is a promising technology that could be used to monitor rivers’water levels for early warning flood detection in the 5G context.However,during a flood,sensor nodes may be washed up or become faulty,which seriously affects network connectivity.To address this issue,Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)could be integrated with WSN as routers or data mules to provide reliable data collection and flood prediction.In light of this,we propose a fault-tolerant multi-level framework comprised of a WSN and a UAV to monitor river levels.The framework is capable to provide seamless data collection by handling the disconnections caused by the failed nodes during a flood.Besides,an algorithm hybridized with Group Method Data Handling(GMDH)and Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO)is proposed to predict forthcoming floods in an intelligent collaborative environment.The proposed water-level prediction model is trained based on the real dataset obtained fromthe Selangor River inMalaysia.The performance of the work in comparison with other models has been also evaluated and numerical results based on different metrics such as coefficient of determination(R2),correlation coefficient(R),RootMean Square Error(RMSE),Mean Absolute Percentage Error(MAPE),and BIAS are provided.展开更多
基金This work was supported by Ministry of Higher Education,Fundamental Research Grant Scheme,Vote Number 21H14,and Faculty of Information Science and Technology,Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia(Grant ID:GGPM-2020-029 and Grant ID:PPFTSM-2020).
文摘The Wireless Sensor Network(WSN)is a promising technology that could be used to monitor rivers’water levels for early warning flood detection in the 5G context.However,during a flood,sensor nodes may be washed up or become faulty,which seriously affects network connectivity.To address this issue,Unmanned Aerial Vehicles(UAVs)could be integrated with WSN as routers or data mules to provide reliable data collection and flood prediction.In light of this,we propose a fault-tolerant multi-level framework comprised of a WSN and a UAV to monitor river levels.The framework is capable to provide seamless data collection by handling the disconnections caused by the failed nodes during a flood.Besides,an algorithm hybridized with Group Method Data Handling(GMDH)and Particle Swarm Optimization(PSO)is proposed to predict forthcoming floods in an intelligent collaborative environment.The proposed water-level prediction model is trained based on the real dataset obtained fromthe Selangor River inMalaysia.The performance of the work in comparison with other models has been also evaluated and numerical results based on different metrics such as coefficient of determination(R2),correlation coefficient(R),RootMean Square Error(RMSE),Mean Absolute Percentage Error(MAPE),and BIAS are provided.
