Customer: Service Central d’Hydrométéorologie et d’Appui à la Prévision des Inondations (SCHAPI)

Programme: Risk Management

Supply Chain: SCHAPI > CS Group SPACE

Context

CS Group responsabilities for National hydrometric data supervisor are as follows:

• System specification and design
• Development
• Deployment of the system in SCHAPI and SPCs
• Training
• Maintenance

The features are as follows:

• Customized maps display for hydrologolical situation follow up
• Hydrologolical data visualisation with tables and graphics. Data analysis function.
• Database access through WebServices
• Alarms management and automatic call to on duty personal.
• Remote acces through Web technologies.
• Sites multi-criteria search (alert level, name, river, hydro conditions)
• Advanced management function of the desktop
• log book, events book
• Forcasts display

Project implementation

The project objectives are as follows:

• Supervision of hydrometric and meteorological data, in cartographic, graphic and tables.
• Visualization of forecasts from models and the creation of expertise.
• Management of hydrological, technical and system alarms.

The processes for carrying out the project are:

• Incremental V Cycle

Technical characteristics

The solution key points are as follows:

• The architecture model is Client Server (n-tier) with a thin client.
• Main components are :
  • Man Machine Interface (MMI)
  • Background tasking service
  • Alarms Diffusion
  • Supervisor Database management
  • Monitoring Service

The main technologies used in this project are:

Domain	Technology(ies)
Operating System(s)	Linux
Programming language(s)	Php 5.3, JAVA, C, C++, JavaScript
Interoperability (protocols, format, APIs)	XML
Production software (IDE, DEVOPS etc.)	SVN
Main COTS library(ies)	PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Mapserver, pMapper, Openlayer