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For our senior project we are going to develop a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) prototype system which will monitor water level in a certain flood-prone area in Naga City. For this, we have chosen Zigbee as the technology to use. The title of our study is "Zigbee-based Water Level Monitoring and Data Acquisition System" which is based on a previous study developed by another set of senior year students in our university two years ago. The system delivers great features like SMS flood forecasting but since it was built from the traditional wired communication, certain limitations hinder its successful implementations. These limitations are a) scalability and b) flexibility in terms of distance and locations. Thus, our group aims to overcome these limitations by developing a wireless prototype of the said system. However, we are not going to include the SMS feature of the previous system and instead focus on the deployment of the wireless network with reliable data acquisition. ...