A study of smartphone based disaster information reporting system under disaster environment

Abstract

With the development of technology and communication network, smartphones are increasingly used in emergency platforms. Under disaster environment, however, the information reporting system may confronted with poor communication conditions or low phone battery. In this study we first defined two parameters: the communication signal and the battery status. Based on the definitions, we proposed an algorithm for smartphone based reporting system under disaster environment. With the guarantee that disasters can be reported promptly and accurately and based on the analysis of smartphone power consumption, the algorithm provides power saving mechanisms to obviously increase the system working time. At last, a smartphone based disaster information reporting system (MDIRS) is designed and applied in disaster environment.