Implementation of Flood Emergency Response System with Face Analytics

Abstract

Disaster management system is developed to monitor flood, tsunami and earthquake, which is effectively preparing for and responding to the disaster. In fact, Malaysia is building the emergency response system for managing the flood disaster since it is highly occurred. However, the current flood emergency response system has limitations, which, has no integration that data entered into spreadsheets and transferred to different storages, and, data analytics that assist in data collection and decision-making. Even though flood emergency response system have been improved, which introducing sirens and loudspeakers to reach flood victims but still difficult to access the basic facilities and receive flood responses. Therefore, this study implements a flood emergency response system with face analytics to assist data acquisition, which analyze flood victim’s faces using CCTV infrastructure with HOG algorithm that incorporated with a dashboard. The dashboard categorizes the number of flood occurrence, maximum flood period (days), the number of displaced flood victims and loss assessment. Findings have shown that the dashboard helps the enforcement agencies to implement the real-time information about flood victims. Based on the number flood frequency occurrence in Malaysia from 2017 to 2021, the percentage produced was 27%, 19%, 12%, 19% and 23%. Moreover, the duration of floods has been decreased from 30% to 17% in 5 years that shows the flood emergency response helps the Malaysia government to improve the infrastructure. The significant of this study beneficial to the local enforcement unit and evacuation centers in identifying the flood victims.