Abstract Flooding is one of the national disasters that Indonesia is currently paying attention to.

One way
that can be done to overcome flooding is by using a flood detector. With the existence of these tools the
community near the flood center can find out earlier in the disaster. But the making of these tools
requires funds that can not even take up a lot of time and long testing and not everyone can make it
because it requires special skills or is said to be quite complicated. Therefore it is necessary to design an
SMS technology based early warning system that can provide information to the people closest to the
flood location quickly. This research is focused on designing an SMS gateway based early warning system.
The prototype of the early warning system was built using ultrasonic placed on the paralon pipe as input
of water level data, Arduino Uno microcontroller as water level data processor and Wavecom GSM
Modem as the sending output of flood information via SMS. From this study, the system prototype has
been able to send SMS to the public if there is an increased flood height. Keywords: Flood Early Warning
System, Arduino, Ultrasonic Sensor, GSM Modem