By Daniel Nanghaka Founder – ILICIT Africa, and EWERDIMA Platform Early Warning Early Response Disaster Management

Disaster Overview A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction, loss of life, or drastic change to the environment. Bududa In 2011, 5 villages destroyed Many lives losts in the Landslides

Challenge of Bududa Landslides of villages 3, Buried Displaced UGX 8billion 10,000 SpentImmediate Assistance

Internet of Things Billions of smart devices instrument our world today Interconnecting these smart devices creates a kind of global central nervous system

The Smarter Planet Solution Instrumented Interconnected Intelligent Smarter Planet

Connectivity of Devices Applications Applications Remote Systems and Devices Interconnected Instrumented Intelligent Web Applications and Devices Edge Gateways Device hubs / controllers that act as hubs/ concentrators for connecting devices. Embedded Controllers Filtering of duplicate read events EWERDIMA Unit

Telemetry and the Internet Telemetry technology allows things to be measured or monitored from a distance. MQ Telemetry provides reliable, secure messaging features that can be scaled to include thousands of clients and that can interface with other technology within the enterprise, such as WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere Application Server.

Cognitive Radio Cognitive radio (CR) is a form of wireless communication in which a transceiver can intelligently detect which communication channels are in use and which are not, and instantly move into vacant channels while avoiding occupied ones. This optimizes the use of available radio-frequency (RF) spectrum while minimizing interference to other users.

Cognitive Radio System

Introduction EWERDIMA is a Radio based, mobile and web based platform that enables the rescuers and humanitarian organizations during crisis get responses on victims and communicate warnings on disasters.

MQTT Protocol MQTT is an extremely simple and lightweight messaging protocol that uses a publish/subscribe architecture designed to implement, with up to thousands of remote clients capable of being supported by a single server.

MQTT minimizes network bandwidth and device resource requirements while attempting to ensure reliability and delivery. This approach makes the MQTT protocol particularly well-suited for connecting machine to machine (M2M), which is a critical aspect of the emerging concept of an Internet of Things.

WebSphere MQ Telemetry extends the reach to connect the smallest and most remote devices and sensors to the enterprise messaging network.

How Mobile Networks work

What Happens when No Network Connectivity A rebroadcast Disaster mesh is created to keep the messages in flow identifying signals of response alerts. This keeps the message in sync with the Disaster Rescue Teams

Disaster Mesh Network

The Mobile Application

Location Based Monitoring

Disaster Views

Marine Health (etc.)… Geological COMMUNITIES AT RISK hazard warning National Government (emergency systems) Hydrological Meteorological National Technical Services disaster response Many countries are still in response and relief mode! hazard warning Local government Disaster response hazard warning

EWERDIMA Unit Low cost customizable Device for household installations Solar unit Disaster Radio Broadcast EWERDIMA Radio Units

Why EWERDIMA Early Reporting and Warning Early Response Immediate Evacuation Duplex communication in times of disaster

The Stakeholders Government Ministries in Management of Disaster Police section of Disaster Management for example the Police Fire Department Amidst other Stakeholders

More countries moving from issuing hazard warnings to Multi- Hazard/Risk-based Early Warning Systems Coordination Across Many Agencies, Sectors and levels National to local emergency plans, legislation and coordination mechanisms

National Government DRM agency and sectoral coordination mechanisms Meteorological Hydrological Geological Marine Health, Agricuture (etc.) Capacity Development and Coordinated National Technical Agencies feedback Community Preparedness warnings feedback A different view …. Local Government responsible for emergency preparedness and response Aligned policies, plans, resources, coordination 1 warnings

Conclusion Together we can save lives during disasters

Thank You By Daniel Nanghaka K. Founder – ILICIT Africa, and EWERDIMA Platform