Method and apparatus for generating a flood event warning for a flood prone location
AssigneeHERE Global B.V.
InventorsAlex Averbuch, Kun Lee, Leon Stenneth
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Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer program product for activating a flood event warning are described herein. In the context of a method, a location may be identified as a flood prone location. Data relating to the flood prone location may be received from one or more remote devices. The method may determine a flood confidence for the flood prone location based upon the data. The method may identify an active flood event for the flood prone location based on the flood confidence and cause a flood event warning to be activated in an instance in which the active flood event is identified.
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A computer-implemented method for generating a flood event warning for a flood prone location, the method comprising:
- identifying, by a server, a location in a database as the flood prone location, wherein the location is identified as the flood prone location based at least on historical data;
- receiving data comprising at least location and sensor data associated with the flood prone location from one or more remote devices, wherein the data comprises images received from image capturing apparatuses of the one or more remote devices;
- storing the images received from the image capturing apparatuses of the one or more remote devices according to predefined time intervals in an image repository;
- searching the image repository for images taken during a particular time interval at the flood prone location;
- identifying flood conditions within at least a portion of the images received by analyzing the images within the image repository for the particular time interval to determine a number of images within the particular time interval that include the flood conditions;
- determining a flood confidence of the flood conditions for the flood prone location based upon the data, wherein the flood confidence of the flood conditions is established based on a number of images in which the flood conditions are identified during the particular time interval relative to a total number of images received during the particular time interval less a number of images received during the particular time interval where the flood conditions are indeterminate;
- identifying an active flood event for the flood prone location based upon the flood confidence;
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- causing the flood event warning to be activated in an instance in which the active flood event is identified.
An apparatus configured to activate a flood event warning for a flood prone location, the apparatus comprising processing circuitry and at least one memory including computer program code instructions, the computer program code instructions configured to, when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the apparatus to:
- identify a location in a database as the flood prone location, wherein the location is identified as the flood prone location based at least on historical data;
- receive data comprising at least location and sensor data associated with the flood prone location from one or more remote devices, wherein the data comprises images received from image capturing apparatuses of the one or more remote devices;
- store the images received from the image capturing apparatuses of the one or more remote devices according to predefined time intervals in an image repository;
- search the image repository for images taken during a particular time interval at the flood prone location;
- identify flood conditions within at least a portion of the images received by analyzing the images within the image repository for the particular time interval to determine a number of images within the particular time interval that include the flood conditions;
- determine a flood confidence of the flood conditions for the flood prone location based upon the data, wherein the flood confidence of the flood conditions is established based on a number of images in which the flood conditions are identified during the particular time interval relative to a total number of images received during the particular time interval less a number of images received during the particular time interval where the flood conditions are indeterminate;
- identify an active flood event for the flood prone location based upon the flood confidence;
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- cause the flood event warning to be activated in an instance in which the active flood event is identified.
A computer program product configured to activate a flood event warning for a flood prone location, the computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program code instructions therein, the computer-executable program code instructions comprising program code instructions configured, upon execution, to:
- identify a location in a database as the flood prone location, wherein the location is identified as the flood prone location based at least on historical data;
- receive data comprising at least location and sensor data associated with the flood prone location from one or more remote devices, wherein the data comprises images received from image capturing apparatuses of the one or more remote devices;
- store the images received from the image capturing apparatuses of the one or more remote devices according to predefined time intervals in an image repository;
- search the image repository for images taken during a particular time interval at the flood prone location;
- identify flood conditions within at least a portion of the images received by analyzing the images within the image repository for the particular time interval to determine a number of images within the particular time interval that include the flood conditions;
- determine a flood confidence of the flood conditions for the flood prone location based upon the data, wherein the flood confidence of the flood conditions is established based on a number of images in which the flood conditions are identified during the particular time interval relative to a total number of images received during the particular time interval less a number of images received during the particular time interval where the flood conditions are indeterminate;
- identify an active flood event for the flood prone location based upon the flood confidence;
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- cause the flood event warning to be activated in an instance in which the active flood event is identified.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.