KMITL’s Suggests Under Ground Monkey Cheekt to Fix BKK Flood .
13-6-2019–Today at KMITL Dr.Suchatchawee Suwansawad President of Conucil of Engineers and Rector of King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL)
suggests Under Ground Monkey Cheek to solve Bankok repeated flooding.He said that the current structure of Bangkok is like a pan, the road level is lower than the water source. Moreover, the drainage pipe is higher than the road, especially at the densely-populated soi area, causing the problem of water drainag and flooding in the rainy season till disturb people’s lives.
Although Bangkok has a giant tunnel draining as a tool to solve the flood problem. But with limited drainage capacity, such as pump failure problems, not ready to work and clogging problems causing the inability to convey water to the drainage tunnel.
Therefore, the origin of the concept of technology that will be used to solve such problems is to create The underground monkey cheek in accordance with the royal initiative of King Rama IX.
BKK underground monkey cheek is an innovative underground reservoir which uses a soil opening method as a water storage tank, by using the inner soil boring tool to create a large underground reservoir, which does not affect the use of soil on the surface.
The strategic points that can be done immediately, such as the Chatuchak Park area, the Tobacco Factory area, which can be used as a water storage area during the rainy season.Especially the risk of repeated flooding zone, including Ladprao, Bang Sue, Ramkhamhaeng, Pathumwan, Ploenchit, Sukhumvit, which is the heart of water management during the rainy season That can link the use of BKK underground monkey cheeks is Using a small pump to drain water to the nearby underground tunnels before draining to the Chao Phraya River during the time when the sea level is not so high, using the principle of drainage according to the law of gravity to increase the efficiency of drainage.
With the use of sensor technology to monitor the operation of water pumps at various points, which can be done immediately with low cost so that the drainage is not interrupted and help to improve the quality of life for Bangkok people in a sustainable way.
It can be replaced the old system that uses the principle of pumping water to withstand the gravity. To know the working situation of the pump and also helps in assessing the potential of the pump from the center.
The staff will have time to assess the readiness in case of equipment failure. Which can decide to move equipment from nearby areas to be used in the areas that are more necessary to helps the drainage system not to be broken.
The model would sustainly solves the problem of Bangkok flooding.
KMITL is also continues to establish a “Smart City Innovative Research Academy” (SCiRA) to help elevate Bangkok to be an intelligent city By using intelligent management system.Which is a combination of information technology and Artificial Intelligenc and advanced innovation.
The institution is developing a comprehensive “Bangkok City Report System” feature both weather reporting systems, road flood report traffic report and road accident, as well as the CCTV connection system, traffic conditions report through scirakmitl.net for the public and related agencies to have the database utilized to monitor the condition of Bangkok and help planing to solve management problems that affects the city people.
