Information Sharing by Smartphones and Its Application in Disaster : Aiming at the Realization of an Emergency Rescue Evacuation Support System (ERESS)

Abstract

When a local disaster such as a fire occurs, it is difficult to know, in real time, the location of the disaster and information on road closures in the surrounding area. If disaster evacuees are not aware of the occurrence of a disaster and are seriously injured owing to evacuation delay, there is a high possibility that they will lose their lives. To solve this problem, we have proposed and are conducting research and development on the Emergency Rescue Evacuation Support System (ERESS). This system automatically detects disasters at an early stage by collecting sensor information from smartphones through an ad hoc network and provides necessary information to evacuees and evacuation support. We will introduce an overview of this system and examples of the research results we have conducted so far.