Emergency Monitoring System Research Articles

Emergency monitoring system and countermeasure for sediment disaster due to the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake

Emergency monitoring system and countermeasure for sediment disaster due to the 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake

Emergency monitoring and disposal decision support system for sudden pollution accidents based on multimedia information system

As the economy and society enter the period of rapid post-industrialization, the pressures on resources and the environment are becoming more obvious. Therefore, the environmental protection work faces more challenges. There are many important elements in the environmental emergency detection system, such as emergency monitoring data, information, and command transmission. In order to deal with all kinds of sudden environmental pollution accidents in a timely manner and to reduce the damage to the environment caused by accidents, we need to ensure the safety of the environment. Therefore, we must use scientific methods to manage sudden environmental pollution accidents. In this paper, we combine Internet technology, GIS technology and multimedia database technology, and establishes a decision support system for emergency monitoring and disposal based on multimedia information systems. Its basic hardware includes environmental risk source monitoring, emergency monitoring, command and dispatch, environmental emergency network and environmental emergency monitoring center construction. The software system includes basic software environment, environmental emergency monitoring and command information sharing platform, application software and unified portal. The entire system is integrated according to an organized organizational system, providing detection systems and early warning systems for sudden environmental pollution incident prevention and emergency response. The system we designed can collect and process relevant information in a very short time. The system can quickly handle emergency decision-making and minimize the adverse effects caused by sudden environmental pollution accidents. Experiment results show the well performance of the proposed system. The multimedia based user interface guarantees the user experience.

Integrated Emergency Monitoring System in Krasnoyarsk Region

We have developed the monitoring system for the early emergency situations alarm. The system includes data warehouse, OLAP tools, web tools and the geographic information subsystem. Technology integration allows collecting, analyzing, storing and providing different kinds of data for quick automatic identification of risks and threats.

Implementation of Emergency Monitoring System using Biometric Data

Most emergencies faced by the socially vulnerable class occur in the absence of their protectors or observers. Therefore, unexpected accidents lead to taking their lives. To solve the problem, it is required to establish a system enable to notify a protector or an observer of an emergency in order to prevent and deal with an unexpected accident. An emergency monitoring system using biometric data receives biosignals from wearable devices, detects and judges an emergency with the use of emergency context awareness algorithm, and then gives a notification to a protector or an observer. The monitoring system implemented in this study is able to collect body temperature, heart rate, and work rate to recognize an emergency and to make a judgment on the basis of the received biosignals with the use of emergency context awareness algorithm.

고령자 주거환경을 위한 상황인지 기반 에너지 저감형 위급상황 감지 시스템 설계 및 구현

고령자들이 증가하면서 고령자들을 위한 다양한 IT 홈 시스템에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행 중이다. 하지만 대부분의 시스템들이 위급한 상황이 발생할 경우 데이터를 전송하는 부분에 초점이 맞춰져 있으며 주거환경에서의 에너지 저감 부분을 고려한 시스템은 찾아보기 쉽지 않다. 사실, 기존의 고령자 주거를 위한 시스템들은 시스템의 기능 수행을 위하여 오히려 더 많은 전력의 소비를 촉진한다. 본 논문에서는 에너지 저감기능을 포함한 위험상황을 모니터링 시스템을 연구 및 구현 한다. 본 시스템을 통하여 위급상황을 모니터링 하면서도 저전력 주거환경을 현실화함으로써 고령자 사회와 그린 사회의 두가지 미래 지향적인 요소를 만족할 수 있을 것이다. As increasing the number of the elderly people, various IT-based home systems for the elderly are actively studied. However, while most systems for the elderly focus on systems detecting emergency cases, systems considering energy reduction in the elderly housing are rarely found. In fact, the systems for the elderly housing consumes rather more electric power for their functions. In this paper, a emergency monitoring system including the functions to reduce energy useage is studied and it is implemented. Though the system, we can achieve both of future-oriented functions for the aged and green society, which are emergency monitoring and energy reduction.

Design of ICT-based Agricultural Safety Monitoring System Models

Objective: This study carried out base research to build an agricultural safety monitoring system through ICT convergence to reduce safety accidents and enhance welfare in life in the agricultural field.BR Background: The functions and values of rural villages as the space of living are recognized anew, but occupational accident rate due to farm work accidents is on the rise each year. Therefore, the seriousness of such a problem emerges. The convergence technology combining ICT is recently applied to industries overall, and therefore better services are offered. However, studies on ICT convergence has not yet been applied to the agricultural safety field.BR Method: This study identified ICT convergence service technology trends and representative serious accident types mainly occurring in agricultural activities. This study defined the major factors of farm work accidents and ICT to solve those accident factors including the sensor technology, wired/wireless communication technology and location information service, and applied them to prototype PCB for the development of an agricultural safety monitoring system.BR Results: This study proposed an emergency monitoring system for farmers and a harmful environment monitoring system. The ICT technology to prevent farm work accidents can be summarized as sensing technology, ICT and network technology and user interface technology. This study also designed PCB module configuration and situation judgment algorithm as basic research for proposed monitoring system development.BR Conclusion: The ICT-based agricultural safety monitoring research proposed in this study is expected to become the basis to build a future real time monitoring system, and also is expected to contribute to social safety and welfare service improvement for farmers.BR Application: The ICT convergence farmer accident prevention system will make contributions to the prevention of serious farm work accidents.

Emergency Monitoring System Based on a Newly-Developed Fall Detection Algorithm

An emergency monitoring system for the elderly, which uses acceleration data measured with an accelerometer, angular velocity data measured with a gyroscope, and heart rate measured with an electrocardiogram, is proposed. The proposed fall detection algorithm uses multiple parameter combinations in which all parameters, calculated using tri-axial accelerations and bi-axial angular velocities, are above a certain threshold within a time period. Further, we propose an emergency detection algorithm that monitors the movements of the fallen elderly person, after a fall is detected. The results show that the proposed algorithms can distinguish various types of falls from activities of daily living with 100% sensitivity and 98.75% specificity. In addition, when falls are detected, the emergency detection rate is 100%. This suggests that the presented fall and emergency detection method provides an effective automatic fall detection and emergency alarm system. The proposed algorithms are simple enough to be implemented into an embedded system such as 8051-based microcontroller with 128 kbyte ROM.

Panzhihua airport landslide (Oct. 3rd 2009) and an emergency monitoring and warning system based on the internet of things

Panzhihua city (26°05′–27°21′N, 101°08′–102°15′E), located in a mountainous area, is one of the large cities in Sichuan province, China. A landslide occurred in the filling body of the eastern part of the Panzhihua airport on October 3, 2009 (hereafter called the 10.3 landslide). We conducted field survey on the landslide and adopted emergency monitoring and warning models based on the Internet of Things (IoT) to estimate the losses from the disaster and to prevent a secondary disaster from occurring. The results showed that four major features of the airport site had contributed to the landslide, i.e, high altitude, huge amount of filling rocks, deep backfilling and great difficulty of backfilling. The deformation process of the landslide had six stages and the unstable geological structure of high fillings and an earthquake were the main causes of the landslide. We adopted relative displacement sensing technology and Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) technology to achieve remote, real-time and unattended monitoring of ground cracks in the landslide. The monitoring system, including five extensometers with measuring ranges of 200, 450 and 700 mm, was continuously working for 17 months and released 7 warning signals with an average warning time of about 26 hours. At 10 am on 6 December 2009, the system issued a warning and on-site workers were evacuated and equipment protected immediately. At 2:20 pm on 7 December, a medium-scale collapse occurred at the No. 5 monitoring site, which justified the alarm and proved the reliability and efficiency of the monitoring system.

Design on Environmental Emergency Monitoring and Management System Based on GIS

Taking Wuhan City as an example, this paper studied the environmental emergency monitoring and management system (EEMMS) based on GIS technology systems and brought out the frame model of the system combined with the practice. The application of EEMMS model can provide fast, feasible methods for emergency monitoring in sudden environmental pollution accident and timely, effective, scientific technical support for decision-making of the environmental emergency management system.

The Application of Measurement Robot in Landslides Emergency Monitoring

The measurement robot (TCA2003 Total Station) has been adopted to solve the problems of landslides emergency monitoring. The working principle and characteristics of measurement robot were briefly introduced. Then a main frame of the deformation monitoring system based on measurement robot was presented and the corresponding software was designed. Based on the GPS deformation monitoring system, the measurement robot automatic emergency monitoring system were established. The application of measurement robot in deformation monitoring system for landslides of the Three Gorges was mainly studied in this paper. The method of monitor landslide by the robot deformation monitoring system has several advantages and extensive application foreground.

A novel canine influenza H3N2 virus isolated from cats in an animal shelter

The interspecies transmission of avian-origin H3N2 canine influenza virus (CIV) to dogs was first reported in 2007. The present study characterized a novel CIV H3N2 isolated from cats in an animal shelter. A comparative analysis of the deduced amino acid sequences of the A/Canine/Korea/CY009/2010(H3N2) (CY009) and A/Feline/Korea/FY028/2010 (H3N2) (FY028) strains isolated from dogs and cats, respectively, in the animal shelter identified point mutations in 18 amino acid positions within eight viral genes. Interestingly, CY009 and FY028 replicated well in specific pathogen-free embryonated chicken eggs and in mice, respectively. Mice infected with the FY028 strain exhibited significant over expression of IL-10, TNF-α, and IFN-γ (p<0.001) at 3 days postinfection. Thus, an emergency monitoring system should be developed to identify influenza mutations that occur during interspecies transmission in companion animals and for continuous public health surveillance.

UAV Platform Based Atmospheric Environmental Emergency Monitoring System Design

UAV Platform Based Atmospheric Environmental Emergency Monitoring System Design

Software modeling and design: UML, use cases, patterns, and software architectures

This book covers all you need to know to model and design software applications from use cases to software architectures in UML and shows how to apply the COMET UML-based modeling and design method to real-world problems. The author describes architectural patterns for various architectures, such as broker, discovery, and transaction patterns for service-oriented architectures, and addresses software quality attributes including maintainability, modifiability, testability, traceability, scalability, reusability, performance, availability, and security. Complete case studies illustrate design issues for different software architectures: a banking system for client/server architecture, an online shopping system for service-oriented architecture, an emergency monitoring system for component-based software architecture, and an automated guided vehicle for real-time software architecture. Organized as an introduction followed by several short, self-contained chapters, the book is perfect for senior undergraduate or graduate courses in software engineering and design, and for experienced software engineers wanting a quick reference at each stage of the analysis, design, and development of large-scale software systems.

Design and Development of Emergency Monitoring System to Sudden Air Pollution Accidents

Design and Development of Emergency Monitoring System to Sudden Air Pollution Accidents

On the design of beacon based wireless sensor network for agricultural emergency monitoring systems

In this paper, we proposed new sensor network architecture with autonomous robots based on beacon mode for real time agriculture monitoring system. The proposed scheme also offers a reliable association with parent nodes and dynamically assigns network addresses. For the large scale multi-sensor processing, the proposed system accomplished the intelligent database, which generates alert messages to the handheld terminal by means of the fire and air-based sensor data. Thus farmers can easily check out the current conditions of crops and farms at anytime and anywhere. Moreover, we also developed a robot platform with network based mobility function for mobile surveillance.

DREAM: emergency monitoring system for the elderly

DREAM: emergency monitoring system for the elderly

A Feasibility Study of Highway Traffic Monitoring using Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Traffic and emergency monitoring systems are essential constituents of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technologies, but the lack of traffic monitoring has become a primary weakness in providing prompt emergency services. Demonstrated in numerous military applications, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have great potentials as a part of ITS infrastructure for providing quick and real-time aerial video images of large surface area to the ground. Despite of obvious advantages of UAVs for traffic monitoring and many other civil applications, it is rare to encounter success stories of UAVs in civil application including transportation. The objective of this paper is to report the outcomes of research supported by the state agency in US to investigate the feasibility of integrating UAVs into urban highway traffic monitoring as a part of ITS infrastructure. These include current technical and regulatory issues, and possible suggestions for a future UAV system in civil applications.

Design of Hybrid Multimedia Telemedicine System over Heterogeneous Networks

The advancement of computing capabilities and increase of available network bandwidths have resulted in an emergency telemedicine services which can provide high quality medical services. However, existing telemedicine systems mainly have offered a one to one communication configuration instead of a multi-connection configuration. Therefore, we suggested a hybrid multimedia telemedicine system to support the multi-patients services in wired and wireless (heterogeneous) network environments. Methods: We designed the hybrid multimedia telemedicine system consisting of 4 sub-systems, a patient system, a doctor system, a emergency monitoring system, and a multi-control server system. The patient system could deliver multimedia data of a patient to the emergency monitoring system or to the doctor system according to link configuration. The link configuration was decided as 'Flowing', or 'By-passing' in accordance the connection type of patient systems or doctor systems. At this time, as the multi-control server system considers the hybrid network, it monitored the patient's multimedia data and the state of emergency telemedicine services. Results: The hybrid multimedia telemedicine system including the multi-control server system performed the best communication configuration over heterogeneous networks. This system achieved high quality emergency telemedicine services through dynamic wired and wireless networks at real-time. Conclusion: This study represented a hybrid multimedia telemedicine system over heterogeneous networks in emergency cases. We expected that the designed system could provide not only the high quality services, tele-diagnosis and tele-consultation, but also the effective emergency telemedicine services to multi-patients in the heterogeneous network environments.239

Epidemiologic Studies of Asthma Epidemics in Barcelona

The respiratory emergency monitoring system developed in Barcelona to study asthma epidemics has proved to be a useful epidemiologic tool. It has mainly contributed to (1) case finding of asthma outbreaks; (2) the development of a useful definition of asthma epidemic days; (3) the setting up of a time-ecological design; (4) the provision of a framework for subject selection in a case-control study; and (5) the design of an intervention study for the evaluation of control measures in the harbor. However, these contributions, although clearly positive, should be considered in light of the conceptual and methodologic limitations enumerated earlier. Finally, research into Barcelona asthma epidemics, employing principles of epidemiologic surveillance, has led to the identification of a specific etiologic hypothesis that has been tested using analytic designs. The validity of this hypothesis has been demonstrated and has enabled the causative point source to be removed. After this intervention, no other asthma outbreaks were observed. The respiratory emergency monitoring system developed in Barcelona to study asthma epidemics has proved to be a useful epidemiologic tool. It has mainly contributed to (1) case finding of asthma outbreaks; (2) the development of a useful definition of asthma epidemic days; (3) the setting up of a time-ecological design; (4) the provision of a framework for subject selection in a case-control study; and (5) the design of an intervention study for the evaluation of control measures in the harbor. However, these contributions, although clearly positive, should be considered in light of the conceptual and methodologic limitations enumerated earlier. Finally, research into Barcelona asthma epidemics, employing principles of epidemiologic surveillance, has led to the identification of a specific etiologic hypothesis that has been tested using analytic designs. The validity of this hypothesis has been demonstrated and has enabled the causative point source to be removed. After this intervention, no other asthma outbreaks were observed.

Emergency Monitoring, Assessment and Response System for Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant

An Emergency Assessment and Response System (EARS) has been developed which provides live-time quantifications and graphical display of radioactivity releases from the Diablo Canyon Power Plant. The EARS system consists of offsite and onsite monitors, a minicomputer for data acquisition and dose calculations, and a color graphics display network to provide plume projection maps and other assessment information to offsite locations. EARS is interfaced to selected channels of the plant radiation monitoring system, and to a mobile laboratory which has both digital and voice RF communications links. EARS calculates doses for offsite locations based on data received from the various interfacing systems. These computed isodose plume results, along with input data, source terms, and meteorological parameters, are transmitted via data communications to computational equipment located at several offsite emergency response centers. Each offsite location will have the capability to graphically display plume projection maps and data, and to provide hard copy to the user. Displays at different locations can be of an identical form for the purpose of response planning and coordination among various agencies. Displayed information may be selected from several forms of calculated data and map presentations. Mapping capabilities are provided to superimpose plume boundaries, dose rates, population densities, and evacuation routes. Color graphics and printouts are used to increase the information content and readability of information.