Flood Location and Alerting

To address NOAA’s need for a weather-ready nation, Intellisense Systems, Inc. (Intellisense) proposes to develop a new Flood Location and Alerting (FLOA) software system based on integrating data from IoT flood sensors such as Intellisense’s AWARE in combination with publicly available data, into Waze, a mobile-based navigation application, as well as FEMA’s IPAWS. Specifically, the innovation in an extensible software platform capable of ingesting sensor and publicly available data and its compatibility with Waze and other mass notification systems (MNS) will improve the process of disseminating flood hazard information and ultimately reducing loss of life, property, and disruption from high-impact events, as well as improving transportation efficiency and safety. As a result, this system offers extensibility to integrate future sensors while being easy to deploy and capable of integrating with multiple notification systems, which directly addresses NOAA program requirements. In Phase I, Intellisense will demonstrate the feasibility of FLOA by building its core architecture and functionality, then demonstrating its end-to-end capability of ingesting sensor data and generating hazard notifications. In Phase II, Intellisense plans to build upon FLOA’s architecture, add new functionality, and obtain approvals to demonstrate in a representative environment.