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Automated Water and Rain Monitoring System with Provincial Integration

Solution Overview

The Huangshi Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau is constructing an automatic measuring and reporting system of water and rain that connects with the provincial flood monitoring system to realize information sharing through a special communication module.[1] This approach aims to realize intelligent identification and prediction of disasters to provide basis for the government or drainage control department to formulate effective preventive measures.[1] The implementation addresses critical gaps in Huangshi's current flood management, where information acquisition on flood disaster mainly relies on human beings, which is identified and verified based on experience and of low efficiency, making it difficult to predict disasters.[1]

Technical Components

The system integrates automatic water and rain measurement capabilities with provincial-level flood monitoring infrastructure through dedicated communication modules.[1] To enhance asset management, the project developed a smart system that integrated a geographic information system database and online monitoring system, which surveyed 812 km of the urban wastewater network.[2] Comparable implementations demonstrate the technical scope possible, as Fuzhou's Water Intelligent System covers 1000 reservoirs, lakes, pools, rivers, gates, stations and underground rainwater and sewage pipelines.[4]

Implementation Details

The automatic measuring and reporting system establishes direct connectivity with provincial flood monitoring infrastructure to enable real-time information sharing across jurisdictional boundaries.[1] The geographic information system database and online monitoring system surveyed 812 km of the urban wastewater network as part of the asset management enhancement.[2] This implementation addresses Huangshi's current reliance on human-based information acquisition, which operates at lower informatization levels and makes disaster prediction difficult.[1]

Benefits and Impacts

The intelligent identification and prediction capabilities provide basis for the government or drainage control department to formulate effective preventive measures.[1] Nationally, the annual average number of deaths and missing persons caused by flash floods has decreased by nearly 90% compared with the period before the system was built.[3] By the end of 2022, China has built the world's largest and most extensive flash flood disaster monitoring and warning system, covering more than 2,000 counties in 31 provinces.[3] Advanced warning systems demonstrate operational efficiency, as delivery time of high-level alerts to decision-makers averaged less than 1 minute, measured as the average time taken for the highest-level red alert to be delivered from the platform to the communication terminals of designated emergency managers at all levels.[5] Annual reach of early warnings totaled 28 billion instances, representing the total number of warning messages delivered annually across all channels.[5]

Climate Adaptation Relevance

The automatic water and rain measuring system directly addresses flood hazards through intelligent disaster identification and prediction capabilities that enable proactive response measures.[1] The provincial connectivity ensures coordinated flood monitoring across broader geographic scales, enhancing regional resilience to extreme precipitation events.[1]

Business Analysis

China operates a unified national emergency warning information release system that is vertically connected at the national, provincial, municipal and county levels, horizontally connected with 22 ministries, and uses the Common Alert Protocol.[5] This institutional framework supports coordinated implementation across jurisdictions, as CMA issues risk warnings of geological hazards and flash floods jointly with ministries of natural and water resources.[5] Comparable urban flood control investments demonstrate the financial scale of comprehensive systems, with Fuzhou's Water Intelligent System requiring total investments over 8.5 million EUR to cover 1000 reservoirs, lakes, pools, rivers, gates, stations and underground rainwater and sewage pipelines.[4]

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