Decision Support System in Thailand's Dam Safety With a Mobile Application for Public Relations: DS-RMS (Dam Safety Remote Monitoring System)

Abstract

This paper describes the decision-making based on civil engineering expertise of the Dam Safety Remote Monitoring System: DS-RMS, which decides on action-based advice depending on every-day scenarios and special occurrences such as earthquakes and floods. The system has been in full operation since 2016 and automatically evaluates 35 failure modes for 3 major dam types 24 hours a day. Key benefits include quick and reliable access to current information about the dams and being a reliever to dam executives in critical situations. In further development, parts of the real-time dam information were selected and made available to the public together with dam safety evaluation results automatically and continuously via a mobile application.