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Disaster Coverage Predication for the Emerging Tethered Balloon Technology: Capability for Preparedness, Detection, Mitigation, and Response

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2017

Saeed H. Alsamhi ,
Mohd Samar Ansari  and
Navin S. Rajput
Saeed H. Alsamhi*
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics Engineering, AMU and IBB University, Ibb, Yemen
Mohd Samar Ansari
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Navin S. Rajput
Affiliation:
Department of Electronics Engineering, IIT (BHU), Varanasi, India
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Saeed Hamood Ahmed Alsamhi, Department of Electronics Engineering, AMU and IBB University, Ibb, Yemen (e-mail: s.alsamhi.rs.ece@iitbhu.ac.in).
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Abstract

Objective

A disaster is a consequence of natural hazards and terrorist acts, which have significant potential to disrupt the entire wireless communication infrastructure. Therefore, the essential rescue squads and recovery operations during a catastrophic event will be severely debilitated. To provide efficient communication services, and to reduce casualty mortality and morbidity during the catastrophic events, we proposed the Tethered Balloon technology for disaster preparedness, detection, mitigation, and recovery assessment.

Methods

The proposed Tethered Balloon is applicable to any type of disaster except for storms. The Tethered Balloon is being actively researched and developed as a simple solution to improve the performance of rescues, facilities, and services of emergency medical communication in the disaster area. The most important requirement for rescue and relief teams during or after the disaster is a high quality of service of delivery communication services to save people’s lives.

Results

Using our proposed technology, we report that the Tethered Balloon has a large disaster coverage area. Therefore, the rescue and research teams are given higher priority, and their performance significantly improved in the particular coverage area.

Conclusions

Tethered Balloon features made it suitable for disaster preparedness, mitigation, and recovery. The performance of rescue and relief teams was effective and efficient before and after the disaster as well as can be continued to coordinate the relief teams until disaster recovery. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2018;12:222–231)

Keywords

Tethered Balloon technologydisaster mitigationpreparednessrescues and researchdisaster coverage area

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Type
Original Research
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Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , April 2018 , pp. 222 - 231
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2017 

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