The convergence of AI, IoT, and big data for advancing flood analytics research
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Floods are among the most destructive natural hazards that affect millions of people across the world leading to severe loss of life and damage to properties, critical infrastructure, and the environment. The combination of artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and the Internet of Things (IoTs), has the potential to more accurately predict these extreme events and accelerate the convergence of advanced techniques for flood analytics research. This convergence—so called the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)—is transformational for both technologies and science-based decision making since AI adds value to IoT through interpretable machine learning (ML) while IoT leverages the power of AI via connectivity and data intelligence. The aim of this research is to discuss the workflow of a Flood Analytics Information System (FAIS; version 4.00) as an example of AIoT prototype to advance and drive the next generation of flood informatics systems. FAIS integrates crowd intelligence, ML, and natural language processing (NLP) to provide flood warning with the aim of improving flood situational awareness and risk assessments. Various image processing algorithms, i.e., Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), were also integrated with the FAIS prototype for image label detection, and floodwater level and inundation areas calculation. The prototype successfully identifies a dynamic set of at-risk locations/communities using the USGS river gauge height readings and geotagged tweets intersected with watershed boundary. The list of prioritized locations can be updated, as the river monitoring system and condition change over time (typically every 15 min). The prototype also performs flood frequency analysis (FFA) by fitting multiple probability distributions to the annual flood peak rates and calculates the uncertainty associated with the model. FAIS was operationally tested (beta-tested) during multiple hurricane driven floods in the US and was recently released as a national-scale flood data analytics pipeline.
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The convergence of AI and IoT has the potential to accurately predict floods and accelerate the convergence of AI models and techniques to advance flood analytics research.
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- Authors
- Samadi, S.
- Affiliations
- Clemson University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Samadi, S.
- ORCID
- Samadi, S.
- Venue
- Frontiers in Water
- Publisher
- Frontiers Media SA
- Published
- 2022-07-15
- Volume
- 4
- ISSN
- 2624-9375 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4285592288
- Cited by
- 25
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 3
- FWCI
- 1.79
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- journal article
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- en
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- gold
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- Frontiers in Water (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
- Social Sciences › Transportation › Energy and Environmental Systems
- Keywords
- AIoT, Internet of Things, big data, flood warning systems, flood risk assessment, crowd intelligence, geo-tagged tweets, convolutional neural networks, flood inundation mapping, flood frequency analysis, probability distributions
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