In Australia, floods can threaten lives and bring widespread damage to homes, businesses and critical infrastructure. The CSIRO reports that floods are the most costly natural disasters in Australia, averaging AU$8.8 billion per year (as of 2017) for insured, tangible and intangible costs. Yet 35% of these losses could be avoided if effective prevention and crisis-management measures were in place. This is a critical point, especially considering that annual flood damage is expected to increase by more than 60% by 2050.
Vigie Risk by Egis
In the face of increasingly frequent flooding, regions must combine intelligence and resilience. To achieve this, they can rely on Vigie Risk, Egis’ integrated solution for managing river overflow and coastal flooding across the entire timeline of risk (before, during, and after), helping to protect people and property.
Taking flood risk into account is essential but knowing how to manage it when it actually occurs is just as important.
Addressing and managing flood risk.
AU$8.8 billion in damages
caused each year in Australia - CSIRO
35% of annual damages
could be avoided through effective prevention and crisis-management measures
60% increase
in annual damage levels expected by 2050
With Vigie Risk, don’t just endure floods — take action!
Vigie Risk is a Data as a Service (DaaS) solution that covers the entire timeline of flood risk:
- Statistical flood-extent mapping to identify the most vulnerable areas and implement appropriate prevention measures (structural measures, vulnerability reduction).
- Real-time and predictive flood-extent mapping based on data from sensors (stations, cameras) and users (technical services, emergency responders, citizens) to prioritise crisis-management actions (road closures, evacuations, etc.).
- Event retrosimulation to support the return to normal operations through post-event feedback, critical analysis of crisis management, and the implementation of continuous improvement plans.
Vigie Risk also enables monitoring of flood impacts through vulnerability indicators, dynamic statistical analyses, damage estimations, and synthetic dashboards.
How does it work?
· Vigie Risk can be used from a computer, tablet, or smartphone.
· To ensure the reliability of real-time and predictive flood maps, they are generated using multiple sources of field data: sensors, river monitoring stations, surveillance cameras, and user inputs (technical services, emergency responders, citizens, and social media).
· An innovative technology maps flooded areas and provides real-time information on how the situation is evolving.
· By combining these data with territorial exposure types (housing, economic activities, public facilities), the system generates vulnerability indicators, automatically highlighting the most impacted areas and the associated damages.
A team effort behind this connected and collaborative software.
Vigie Risk is the result of four years of R&D, supported by Banque des Territoires. It was developed by Egis’ Water digital teams.
The solution is part of the Aquamunia ecosystem, which brings together interoperable services covering the entire flood-risk management chain:
- Real-time river monitoring with vorteX-io micro-stations
- Real-time and predictive flood-extent mapping with Vigie Risk by Egis
- Protection of people and assets through the shared crisis-management interface provided by Numérisk
Why wait for the next heavy rainfall? Discover now what Vigie Risk can offer your organisation with the support of our experts.
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