Portable Disaster Monitoring and Escape Guidance System

This paper presents a novel system for disaster prevention, relief, and escape in response to extreme weather threats, thus the losses caused by extreme weather disasters can be reduced. During extreme weather situations, previous measures have been unable to prevent disasters or meet the needs of members of the public and relief personnel. Through integrating information and communication hardware with software technology, we developed a portable disaster-monitoring device in this study to speed up disaster information integration and notification. Additionally, by developing a mobile phone disaster monitoring application (APP), people can use their mobile phones to report disasters and receive real-time disaster information, providing them with sufficient information to determine subsequent actions. This means that by integrating people power and governmental efforts (disaster-prevention equipment development), we can maximize the benefits of civil defense/disaster relief and escape.