My safety, My locator, Locator Master and The Interceptor.
The major obstacles we face with the problem of disasters are:Poor flow of pre and post information about
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Early warning
Understand the disaster and its magnitude
How to prepare for it
What are possible injuries and how to give first Aid from person to person during and after the
disaster.
Which are safer locations during disaster at your area depending on the disaster
Locating missing persons
Calling for rescue and requesting emergency aid
Poor Identification of request for food, water, shelter and medical aid.
Poor management of resources in a manner that some resources do not reach the most in need groups.
These problems can be solved by the use of set of software and devices working antagonistically as
follows.
My Safety-is a open source application that is platform independent which contain data about all form
of possible disasters, early signs and what to do once you see these signs. It contains maps of possible
area of safety during the disaster but also show climate, landscape, winds and water details of user
environment .
My Locator-This is a device used to locate people in disaster area so as to simplify rescuing missions
hence the user wear the adjustable device in a form like a hand watch in which can be turned on
manually or as it detects human body temperature.
Locator Master-For coordinating emergency aid and response teams so what is needed when and
where can be knows, since the device can be used even in absence of internet by the walkie talkie
technology used in world war2 to transmit data in form of radio waves.
The Interceptor-This is web based advanced database system that keep track of request management,
help organizations registrations, give maps that shows medical facilities, offices, landscape of disaster
area showing safe zones and danger zones, registry of persons and victims, chatting interfaces,
continuously synchronizes information on food request, hospital system, shelter and organization
services so as proper utilization of resources and coordination management during the disaster.
My safety
This is an open source application which should be available to devices including all mobile platforms so
as to cover individuals of different economic standard but also available at computers and other ICT
gadgets.
Functions
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Should contain data about all possible disasters, early signs and what to do when you see these
signs.
Instructions on how to handle first Aid to a victim depending on type of disaster, This will save a
lot of lives since people will have a guidance on how to save each other prior to external help .
It should hold maps and possible area of safety depending on location of individual and type of
disaster. Example it should locate higher grounds or higher buildings in the area when user go to
category of flood disaster.
It should contain landscape, climate and water details depending on location its intended to be
used.
It should act as Weather forecast receiver center for a user.
Warning acceptor and once warning had been detected it should show which disaster in this
software is concerned so user to know what to do/how to respond to that warning.
Options to request assistance and emergence aid.
Capable of locating medical centers and camps available prior and after the disaster .
Properties of the application.
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Small and robust since it contain major text documents and maps.
Platform independent (should be available to all ICT devices).
Free source application in a way that users can modify data in a program to fit those required at
their location and environment, Example maps, landscape, climate and weather details.
Web based as well as mobile sms based for synchronization of data.
Offline availability in a manner that data in the application can be viewed even if no Internet is
available at a specific area.
Data in the software can be updated using normal sms broadcasted to an intended area where
application holding device is available. This comes in handy at Africa interior places where
Internet access is but a mere dream.
My Locator
This is a device used to locate people in disaster area so as to simplify rescuing missions and enabling
easy supply of services to the people in the specific area affected.
Device description
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The device will be small in a design more like a hand watch or a ribbon, so to be wear on hand.
The device will contain GPS tracer or a small device that release a radio frequency of a certain
wavelength(frequency must be agreed upon in production so as to be universal declared for this
device) .The GPS is more effective at places where Internet is available but at interior parts of
underdeveloped countries(Africa) the radio frequency technique is more effective.
The switching on of the device should be manually or auto switch once the human body
temperature is detected.
Power source is a C-MOS battery, These batteries are very small and have capability of lasting
for years, they are the ones we use on our watches and on computer motherboards .
How to be used
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The devices are to be wear once signs of natural disasters occurs, Once individual wear they
auto activate due to human body temperature detection or manual switching on.
The devices must be supplies to families, schools and available at public places or buildings so as
an incidence occurs they can be easy accessible.
This device will come much handy even in water travel as passengers should wear them on
entire journey, so to assure location of each and everyone once an incidence occurs.
General feature of the device
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Power supply independent
Adjustable so to be fit even to small children
Water resistance
Capable of remain unaltered due to abnormal changes of temperature range
Locator Master
This will be useful in coordinating emergency aid and response teams, so immediate help can be given
to those who urgently needs it but also give response team full idea of what help is needed so they can
be full equipped before they go to give help in the affected area.
Device description
The device must be able to accept data both from the internet (if internet cervices are available) but
should be able to act as a Walkie talkie(especially in deepest parts of Africa or in the sea where internet
is unavailable ) the device must be able to transmit data in radio waves (based on technology of walkie
talkie ”handheld transceiver” used in second world war for military communications) Hence these radio
frequencies should be agreed upon to be used at disaster times.
Hence the device must have capability of accepting, displaying and sending messages.
In interior poor parts of the poorest countries like many African and Latin America countries where
internet access is totally unavailable the Locator master can be highly modified to have multipurpose
functions in a manner that:
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It should receive weather forecast, climate, landscape, wind and water details as well as
accepting warnings in form of radio wave signals that would be broadcasted from weather
station in a dedicated frequency.
Also these data can be received though mobile SMS if mobile network is available.
There must be one or more dedicated Locator Master that is always on (capable of utilizing
batteries as well as UV light as power source) so as to give a village update data on weather or
warnings associated with climate change or possible disaster and what to do.
This can be placed at local village authority like the village council or to the head of the village
for better monitoring and insurance of flow of information.
The Interceptor
This is a web based advanced database system that will be used to do the following:
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Keep track of Support requests from a disaster area(Request management) so as to know how
to organize services for the support needed and to identify the capacity of the problem.
Keep track by registering organizations that comes to give help and support so as give proper
distribution of tasks and for easy monitoring .
Provide maps that’s give the location of medical facilities, hospitals, necessary offices and
landscape of the disaster area showing safe zones and danger zones
Registry of person and contact information are done by this system in which it is capable of auto
matching information of person in database so to simplify family and coworker unification.
Should have chatting interface that will allow people to communicate so to share information
and to find each other.
Should have continuous synchronous information on hospitals, medical facilities and camps so
as to know the progress and detect shortages in those facilities.
Keep track of food request after rescuing mission so as to know where and when supply is
needed and for which quantity.
System should keep track on disaster victims identification and relating the data of victims to
those of persons registered in database so as to find family ,members and co workers.
All shelters should be registered in system together with persons ling on them the to have
better management of flow of people and resources management.
NB: The data synchronization will be done between this database system and My safety program as
much of their functions needs coordination during disaster such as user information and to give
notification to the user.