Intelligent River® Bridge Flood Monitoring System to Improve Transportation Mobility

Bridge flooding can dramatically impact mobility, and climate change impacts are expected to increase flooding frequency in the future. There is an urgent need to develop technology to provide accurate, near real-time water level information from bridges. The Clemson Intelligent River® project has developed an innovative low-cost platform for water level monitoring from bridges. This “BridgeBox” uses radar technology to measure water level and then sends this data over Internet of Things (IoT) cellular networks to a cloud-based system that can share water levels and flood alerts with DOT professionals to help improve public safety and vehicle flow to improve mobility during extreme precipitation and flooding events. This proposal supports several key aspects of testing and refining the bridge water level monitoring system. Water level distance accuracy would be validated through careful laboratory and field structures. A Global Positioning System (GPS) would be integrated to help validate installation location. Multiple bridge mounting systems would be developed to enable rapid, non-destructive mounting on various bridge structures. Installation surveying methodology would be developed. Finally, twenty test deployments would be done in collaboration with the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) as well as the South Carolina Office of Resilience (SCOR).

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $341689
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747117

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Clemson University

  216 Lowry Hall
  Clemson, SC, SC  United States  29634

  Benedict College

  1600 Harden Street
  Columbia, South Carolina  United States  29204
• Managing Organizations:

  Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility

  Clemson University
  Clemson, SC  United States  29634
• Performing Organizations:

  Clemson University

  216 Lowry Hall
  Clemson, SC, SC  United States  29634

  Benedict College

  1600 Harden Street
  Columbia, South Carolina  United States  29204
• Principal Investigators:

  Post, Christopher

• Start Date: 20240103
• Expected Completion Date: 20240930
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Bridges; Floods; Monitoring; Real time information
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Data and Information Technology; Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01907173
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Center for Connected Multimodal Mobility
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747117
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Feb 6 2024 5:48PM