CENTAUR – Cost Effective Neural Technique for Alleviation of Urban Flood Risk
Project Overview
The EU-funded CENTAUR (Cost Effective Neural Technique for Alleviation of Urban Flood Risk) project has developed an autonomous and decentralised system ready for commercialization. CENTAUR has shown that it is possible to obtain additional protection against urban flooding with existing pipeline networks.
Project Results
The project provided an innovative, cost-effective and locally autonomous sewer flow control system to reduce the risk of flooding in urban areas. CENTAUR is the acronym for the full title of the project: Cost-effective neural technique to reduce the risk of flooding in urban areas. CENTAUR uses data driven real time control (RTC) strategies to activate existing in sewer storage at the local scale. Sophisticated computational techniques have been combined with specially designed communications modules and flow control devices to reduce flood risk.
The CENTAUR project finished in August 2018, it has produced a market-ready system for flood risk reduction. The CENTAUR.loc tool has been developed by EAWAG and is stored on GitHub. The November 2016 CCWI conference paper “Where to install flow control gates in order to maximise in sewer storage and reduce urban flood risk?” uses this tool, as does the November 2017 Journal of Hydrology paper: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2017.11.020 (subscription required) or see Green open access version.