2P1-M07 Development of a sensor node with double-spherical mechanism for gathering disaster area information

Abstract

After the earthquake, it is very important to grasp the situation of the disaster area as soon as possible. This research, aims to develop a novel sensor node for gathering disaster information. Developed sensor node equips a double-spherical mechanism for setting the direction of build-in camera uniformly. It also has a small Linux computer, with GPS adaptor, wireless LAN and omni-directional camera an&so on. Therefore, the sensor node can transfer captured images with location and time information. In this paper, developed sensor node is introduced and its performance is experimented using prototype.