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DisRes for Crowd sourcing of Crisis InformationAuthors: Neelima Satyam,vishnukumar nekkanti Conference: 2nd world congress on Disaster Management Location Andhra University, Waltair Junction, Vishakapatnam, A.P., India Date: 2015-11-19 Report no: IIIT/TR/2015/57 AbstractThe principle of crowdsourcing is that more heads are better than one. By canvassing a large crowd of people for Information will result in superior, faster inflow of disaster data to our database. The aim of this project is to model crisis communication scheme from the perspective of community, individuals and crisis management groups. The project aims at developing an efficient model and implementation of the model for efficient functioning of various rescue and recovery subsystems by providing them to and fro communication channels, so that they function efficiently on an individual basis and also interact properly with one another to ensure rapid measures during any crisis. The course of action taken and plans to chalk down a recovery model becomes easier for people as the project implementation provides them a wealth of information to mine from. The disasters that are so far considered for prototype are Earthquake, Fire, Could bursts, Flash Floods and Cyclone. Also, we built a mobile app on Android Platform and web app prototypes. The main channel to report a disaster is the mobile application, but its validation is verified based on the number of sos, Social media posts (twitter, Facebook) thus this verification system from crowdsourced information helps to handle false alarms. There is an offline search feature for the mobile users to get the location and contact information of the rescue organisations in their locality. We get the relief organisations to register with us and form an aggregate database of all such groups. Such a database is very useful for coordination of rescue activities. We store data related to all notifications and messages from different sources namely rescuers, organisations and disaster affected people so that such data can be used to better understand and cope up with the situation. To enable rescue organizations better utilize resources for their operation. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has a wireless crowdsourcing disaster-recovery information services with an application that lets users pinpoint damage using their smart phone's GPS, and also provide a detailed report of disaster to help the government plan the recovery. We include the same features and also plan on including a bluetooth/wifi beacon system to ease up the rescue of people stuck under debris. Full paper: pdf Centre for Earthquake Engineering |
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