Do you know that floods cause about $150 billion yearly in destruction, damaging infrastructure, facilities, and even trade routes? While floods in certain instances are inevitable, a preventative strategy reduces your risks of damage, improves safety, and lets you start evacuating the area sooner.
Ideal for cities and low-lying areas, many such strategies involve measuring water surface levels with a liquid level sensor. Frequently operating wirelessly, it sends out a message once water or another fluid reaches a certain level, letting you know to get prepared or leave the area. What should you be aware of?
Functionality
Liquid level sensors for floods typically have no moving parts and, logically, are not a conductivity-based solution. Rather, a typical device senses the water’s surface, as well as any salt or oil, but is insulated and isolated from the liquid.
When the water comes in contact with the system, it sends a message wirelessly, usually as an SMS text or email, to an alarm, siren, or monitoring station. The message immediately warns those observing the area of potential flood risk; should the area be particularly large, a signal repeater may broadcast it to cover and alert the entire region. From there, your team has the knowledge that a flood could hit soon, so it’s best to start your evacuation plan right away.
Uses
For which types of flood risks might your system need a sensor?
- Monitoring tanks that could spill
- Monitoring a river or another body of water that could overflow its banks
- Alerting a facility to faulty plumbing
- Shutting down a water supply
- Environmental monitoring
- Water conservation
- Mechanical float replacement
- Wastewater applications
Because of these general uses, you may want to install a liquid level sensor for flood prevention in or along:
⋅ Commercial and residential basements ⋅ Farms
⋅ Car parks and parking lots ⋅ Ship decks
⋅ Riverbanks ⋅ Rain barrels
⋅ Gardens ⋅ Reservoirs
⋅ Parks ⋅ Aquariums
⋅ Offices ⋅ Electronic toilets
…and any low-lying flood-prone areas
For submersible sensors designed for wastewater applications, optical sensors with no moving parts, and other flood control solutions SMD Fluid Controls has your applications covered.