WaveGuard: A flood monitoring and rescue system

IF 2.4 4区计算机科学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

SoftwareX Pub Date : 2025-09-22 DOI:10.1016/j.softx.2025.102361

Aritra Naha Likhan, Anirban Roy, Md. Shahidul Salim, Sk Imran Hossain

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Abstract

Floods hit millions of people every year around the world. In Bangladesh, flooding is a common phenomenon that is often caused by heavy rainfall, monsoon river flooding, and tropical cyclones. In Bangladesh, during the recent floods in 2024, more than 5 million people were affected due to inadequate early warning systems, coordination of rescue operations, and relief distribution. To address the requirements for sophisticated technologies and interconnected systems to monitor, manage, and contribute to flood-based disasters, we present WaveGuard. WaveGuard is a flood monitoring and rescue system web application embodying volunteer and victim authentication, dashboard for managing personal information, sharing nearby rescue locations, and effective collaboration between victims and volunteers, real-time location-based flood situation sharing, and providing alert insights about those locations with 77.57% accuracy in location recognition as a named entity and 94.41% accuracy in severity classification. A donation system, integrated via the bKash online payment interface, also aids fundraising. WaveGuard is developed using widely adopted technologies and frameworks, making it adaptable to other disaster response scenarios beyond floods.

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WaveGuard：洪水监测和救援系统

世界各地每年都有数百万人遭受洪水袭击。在孟加拉国，洪水是一种常见的现象，通常是由暴雨、季风河流洪水和热带气旋引起的。在孟加拉国，在最近的2024年洪水中，由于早期预警系统、救援行动协调和救济分配不足，超过500万人受到影响。为了满足对复杂技术和互联系统的需求，以监测、管理和应对洪水灾害，我们提出了WaveGuard。WaveGuard是一款洪水监测和救援系统web应用程序，体现了志愿者和受害者身份验证，管理个人信息的仪表板，共享附近的救援地点，受害者和志愿者之间的有效协作，基于实时位置的洪水情况共享，并提供关于这些地点的警报洞察，在位置识别中准确率为77.57%，在严重程度分类中准确率为94.41%。通过bKash在线支付界面集成的捐赠系统也有助于筹款。WaveGuard采用了广泛采用的技术和框架，使其适应洪水以外的其他灾害响应场景。

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SoftwareX COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING-

CiteScore

5.50

自引率

2.90%

发文量

184

审稿时长

9 weeks

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