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Flood Alerts

Flood Alerts. Flood Facts. One in six homes in England is at risk of flooding This is 5.2m properties at risk : 2.4m threatened by rivers and the sea A further 2.8 million at risk from surface water flooding from overflowing drains.

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Flood Alerts

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  1. FloodAlerts

  2. Flood Facts • One in six homes in England is at risk of flooding • This is 5.2m properties at risk : • 2.4m threatened by rivers and the sea • A further 2.8 million at risk from surface water flooding from overflowing drains. • Almost half a million homes, offices, factories and warehouses are at a significant risk of flooding from rivers or sea, with a greater than one in 75 chance of being flooded in any year. • The highest number of properties at significant risk are in the south-east of England, where 111,356 are threatened with flooding • Boston, Lincolnshire, has the greatest number of properties at high risk – 23,700 – of any local authority. Source Environment Agency Statistics: (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/19/uk-homes-risk-flood )

  3. What is Shoothill FloodAlerts? • Uniquely, Shoothill Ve-Locity receives the raw data feed from the EA and converts the data into Bing Maps polygonsas a Bing Maps tile layer (on the fly) • Alert data is updated every 15 minutes (24 X 7) • Flood Tiles are displayed (in situ) on Bing Maps as different coloured ‘shape’ file tiles representing the severity of each Flood warning • Flood Alert tiles are fed live via Shoothill servers to be displayed on any website / phone device • Any ‘pins’ (i.e. properties under surveillance for flood) placed within the flood alerts warning areas can be highlighted to inform the end user that they are under potential risk (email, Phone app and soon...text) • End users can register a 1 or 2 properties for free (except SMS) • IPhone, Win P7 apps available now (Android soon) • Designed to be easily Iframe’d into any portal / partner site • Flood Alerts is connected to Twitter (profile name “Flood Alerts”) • Everything runs from the cloud (on MS Azure) • Everything working, tested and ready to go

  4. Flood Alerts GUI Current Alerts Banner Find a location Map controls Alert Icons My Location My Location dialog My Alerts All Flood Alerts

  5. Registering ‘my’ location Enter my postcode Pin moves to this property ...But this is not my property.... This is my property.... ....so how do I register that?

  6. Registering ‘my’ location Pin is able to be ‘moved’ (drag and drop) to any point on the earth so giving pin-point accuracy Postcode is reversed GEO code

  7. Registering ‘my’ location Radius (area to be monitored) can also be adjusted by using the radius tool ...or the radius slider

  8. Flood Alerts GUI My Location ‘My Alerts’ – none at present My Location dialog

  9. Registering ‘my’ location to a current flood Change the postcode to SY4 1AP Pin moves accordingly to an area near a village called Nesscliff

  10. What happens when I get an alert? ‘My Alerts’ dialog opens ...with the current alerts affecting my location Alert can be viewed on a map

  11. What happens when I get an alert? ...Current alert affecting my location ‘My location”

  12. What happens when I get an alert? Facebook Wall FaceBook notification and a post the the wall Smartphone Email Initial design of Flood Alerts warning email Colour represents severity of Alert Click here to be taken to the alert on the BING map EA ‘What to do now’ text and EA helpline

  13. On a an IPhone

  14. Additional Versions of FloodAlerts

  15. System Topology Azure Services TCP:443 (Encrypted Channel) TCP:1433 Web Server SQL Server Worker Roles FloodAlerts API (Encrypted Channel) TCP:1433 IP Access List Facebook Web App VE –Locity Shape File Processor (No Public Access) Alerting Gateway VE –Locity Flood Alerts Processor 2…N Scale Out Notifications Processor Load Balancer XML Feed Poller Notifications Manager 2…N Scale Out Traffic Manager Azure Queue Azure Tables Blob Storage Public Internet TCP: SFTP Environment Agency XML Feed HTTP(S) Facebook User

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