Evaluating FLOODIS: Mobile sensing for a flood emergency service in the cloud

Abstract

Despite the growing development of space-based systems aimed at monitoring and studying natural hazards, floods continue to harm humankind worldwide, causing enormous human and economic losses. In a view of improving the timeliness of existing flood emergency systems, we propose FLOODIS: a novel service that exploits existing space technologies together with mobile sensing and state-of-the-art cloud computing platforms in order to provide a fast, flexible and scalable flood emergency system. We evaluate the performance of our service oriented cloud-based architecture with a real prototype, achieving real-time performances at scale.