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Disasters are characterized by the destruction of infrastructure that support communication, rendering communication impossible. This project seeks to design and develop a mobile application to create an opportunistic network using mobile phones as nodes, to identify the location of victims and to establish communication between rescuers and victims. The system was designed using Android application...
The recent advancements in mobile network technologies and terminals have enabled ubiquitous Internet coverage, opening novel possibilities for public safety applications, and especially public warning and alerting. In this paper, we present the most recent results of the Austrian national project PASA (Public Warning and Alert System for Austria), the aim of which is to design, prototypically develop...
Recent events of multiple earthquakes in Nepal and resulting loss of life and resources bring our attention to the ever growing significance of disaster management, especially in the context of large scale nature disasters such as earthquake and Tsunami. In this paper, we focus on how disaster management can benefit from recent advances in wireless communication technologies and protocols, especially...
In urban emergencies and disasters, Internet connectivity is commonly unavailable to a large number of civilians in the affected area since the cellular network infrastructure and WiFi systems are either congested, or they have partially or completely failed. In this paper, we discuss how short-range wireless communications among mobile devices, e.g., smartphones, can be leveraged to construct an...
In the aftermath of major disasters such as earth-quakes, locating individuals is crucial for passing on vitalinformation, for example warnings and safety announcements. However, large scale disasters cause extensive damage to thenetwork infrastructures and a generalized loss of communicationsin the chaos that ensues. This position paper presents a prelim-inary study for a geolocation service that...
The information required in the disaster will change over time. In early stage the emergency information is required. Then evacuation life information in shelter is required. The next required information changes to reconstruction information subsequently. Two-way communication is necessary between the affected area and support center in those time periods. When information infrastructure is destroyed...
The Disaster and Emergency Warning Network (DEWN) is a last-mile disaster early warning system based on a suite of mobile technologies. It alerts citizens of impending disasters through SMS/Cell Broadcast activated remote-alarm devices, cell broadcasting to handsets and multi-lingual SMS.
Most of controlling disaster management focus on how to rescue people from a disaster area. In this paper, we propose an emergency escape system that helps people escape by themselves effectively from a disaster area in which each person owns a mobile device. We define a scenario for the proposed system in which there are five system states; they are Idle, Discovery, Subscription/Publication, Execution,...
This paper presents a system based on electronic equipments, standard mobile phones and WLAN networks for managing evacuation routes, or for obtaining information about victims' location and status, whenever a building collapses due to a disaster like earthquakes. The system is based on the standard Blue tooth specification to guarantee their application in indoor areas. The electronic equipments,...
There is an emerging focus on real-time data stream analysis on mobile devices. A wide range of data stream processing applications are targeted to run on mobile handheld devices with limited computational capabilities such as patient monitoring, driver monitoring, providing real-time analysis and visualization for emergency and disaster management, real-time optimization for courier pick-up and delivery...
Mobile government (m-Government) is the next inevitable direction of evolution of e-Government. A mobile-based emergency response system (MERS) is one of the important m-Government services. A MERS under m-Government platform is a mobile-based information system designed to let people get help from the government in an emergency situation. It also makes the use of mobile technologies to assist the...
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