By Daniel NanghakaFounder – ILICIT Africa, and EWERDIMA PlatformTwitter: @dnanghakaEmail: dndannang@gmail.com

Early Warning Early Response Disaster Management

Disaster Overview

A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment.

BududaIn 2011, 5 villages destroyed Many lives losts in the Landslides

Challenge of Bududa Landslides of 2011

5 villages

3,000

350

Buried

Displaced

UGX 8billion

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e Assistance

Internet of Things

Billions of smart devices instrument our world today

Interconnecting these smart devices creates a kind of global central nervous system

The Smarter Planet Solution

+ + =Instrumented Interconnected Intelligent Smarter Planet

Connectivity of Devices Applications

ApplicationsRemote Systems and

Devices

Interconnected

Instrumented

Intelligent

Web Applications and Devices

Edge Gateways Device hubs / controllers that act as hubs/ concentrators for connecting devices.

Embedded Controllers Filtering of duplicate read events

EWERDIMA Unit Spectrum Meter Unit Transmitters

Telemetry and the Internet

Telemetry technology allows things to be measured or monitored from a distance.

MQ Telemetry provides reliable, secure messaging features that can be scaled to include thousands of clients and that can interface with other technology within the enterprise, such as WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere Application Server.

Cognitive Radio

Cognitive radio (CR) is a form of wireless communication in which a transceiver can intelligently detect which communication channels are in use and which are not, and instantly move into vacant channels while avoiding occupied ones. This optimizes the use of available radio-frequency (RF) spectrum while minimizing interference to other users.

Cognitive Radio System

Introduction

EWERDIMA is a Radio based, mobile and web based platform that enables the

rescuers and humanitarian organizations during crisis get responses on victims and

communicate warnings on disasters.

MQTT Protocol

MQTT is an extremely simple and lightweight messaging protocol that uses a publish/subscribe architecture designed to implement, with up to thousands of remote clients capable of being supported by a single server.

MQTT minimizes network bandwidth and device resource requirements while attempting to ensure reliability and delivery. This approach makes the MQTT protocol particularly well-suited for connecting machine to machine (M2M), which is a critical aspect of the emerging concept of an Internet of Things.

WebSphere MQ Telemetry extends the reach to connect the smallest and most remote devices and sensors to the enterprise messaging network.

How Mobile Networks work

What Happens when No Network Connectivity

A rebroadcast Disaster mesh is created to keep the messages in flow identifying signals of response alerts.

This keeps the message in sync with the Disaster Rescue Teams

Disaster Mesh Network

The Mobile Application

Location Based Monitoring

Disaster Views

Marine

Health (etc.)…

Geological

COMMUNITIES AT RISK

hazard warning

NationalGovernment

(emergency systems)

Hydrological

Meteorological

National Technical Services

disasterresponse

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EWERDIMA Unit

Low cost customizable Device for household installations

Solar unit

Disaster Radio Broadcast

EWERDIMA Radio Units

Why EWERDIMA Early Reporting and Warning Early Response Immediate Evacuation Duplex communication in times of disaster

The Stakeholders

Government Ministries in Management of Disaster

Police section of Disaster Management for example the Police Fire Department

Amidst other Stakeholders

More countries moving from issuing hazard warnings to Multi-Hazard/Risk-based Early Warning Systems Coordination Across Many Agencies, Sectors and levels

National to local emergency plans, legislation and coordination mechanisms

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NationalGovernment

DRM agency and sectoral coordination

mechanisms

Meteorological

Hydrological

Geological

Marine

Health, Agricuture (etc.)

Capacity Development and Coordinated National

Technical Agencies

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Local Government

responsible for emergency

preparedness and response

Aligned policies, plans, resources, coordination

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Conclusion

Together we can save lives during disasters

Thank You

By Daniel Nanghaka K.Founder – ILICIT Africa, and EWERDIMA Platform

Twitter: @dnanghakaEmail: dndannang@gmail.com