FloodAlerts

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 )

• Uniquely, Shoothill Ve-Locity receives the raw data feed from the EA and converts the data into Bing Maps polygons as 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

What is Shoothill FloodAlerts?

Flood Alerts GUI

Current Alerts Banner

Find a location

Map controls

Alert Icons

My Location

My Alerts

All Flood Alerts

My Location dialog

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?

Postcode is reversed GEO code

Pin is able to be ‘moved’ (drag and drop) to any point on the earth so giving pin-point accuracy

Registering ‘my’ location

...or the radius slider

Radius (area to be monitored) can also be adjusted by using the radius tool

Registering ‘my’ location

Flood Alerts GUI

My Location

My Location dialog

‘My Alerts’ – none at present

Pin moves accordingly to an area near a village called Nesscliff

Change the postcode to SY4 1AP

Registering ‘my’ location to a current flood

What happens when I get an alert?

...with the current alerts affecting my location

‘My Alerts’ dialog opens

Alert can be viewed on a map

What happens when I get an alert?

...Current alert affecting my location

‘My location”

What happens when I get an alert?FaceBook notification and a post the the wall

EA ‘What to do now’ text and EA helpline

Initial design of Flood Alerts warning email

Colour represents severity of Alert

Click here to be taken to the alert on the BING map

Facebook Wall

Email Smartphone

On a an IPhone

Additional Versions of FloodAlerts

System Topology

Azure Services

Web Server

Alerting GatewayAlerting Gateway

Facebook Web AppFacebook Web App

FloodAlerts APIFloodAlerts API

IP Access List

(No Public Access)

Facebook User

(Encrypted Channel)TCP:1433

2…NScale Out

Worker Roles

VE –Locity Shape File Processor

VE –Locity Shape File Processor

TCP:443

Environment Agency XML

Feed

Environment Agency XML

Feed

TCP: SFTP

(Encrypted Channel)TCP:1433

Load BalancerLoad Balancer

HTTP(S)

Traffic ManagerTraffic Manager

VE –Locity Flood Alerts Processor

VE –Locity Flood Alerts Processor

Notifications ProcessorNotifications Processor

XML Feed PollerXML Feed Poller

Blob StorageAzure TablesAzure Queue

2…NScale OutNotifications ManagerNotifications Manager

Public Internet

SQL Server