DEVELOPMENT OF DISASTER PREVENTION INFORMATION SYSTEM USING FM RADIO AND FIELD EXPERIMENTS IN SHIMANTO CITY KAWANOBORI DISTRICT

Abstract

When the disaster occurs, securing a reliable disaster prevention information system becomes an important problem. In this paper, we propose a new information system using mini-FM network. This system acquires disaster prevention information on the web by the automatic operation, and converts it into voice information. In addition, convert the sentences into the voice and transmit to the radio of a local area as FM electric wave.

From the field experiments of about five months conducted in Kochi Prefecture Shimanto city Kawanobori district by using this system, we found the possibility of a new information service to reduce flood damage.