Study on a Method for Gathering, Sharing, and Propagating Disaster Victim Information in Disrupted Communication Service Areas

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26730050
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Information network
• Research Institution: Nara Institute of Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: Kashihara Shigeru 奈良先端科学技術大学院大学, 情報科学研究科, 助教 (60380739)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ドローン / UAV / 災害情報 / DTN / D2D / IoT / スマートフォン / アプリケーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In the research, to gather, share, and propagate disaster victim information in disrupted communication service areas, we studied the following topics, (1) an information sharing method with saving battery under a large number of disaster victims, and (2) a method for searching disaster victims by a drone. In (1), we showed that the proposed method increases battery life of smartphones and reduces time to share information. In (2), we also showed that the proposed method has a potential to search disaster victims via Wi-Fi packets from their smartphones.

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