Designing and Building a Low-Cost IoT Solution for Natural Disaster Monitoring and Mitigation: An Experience Report

Abstract

Mitigating natural disasters is a global concern and a social challenge, and new technologies and social inclusion mechanisms have been applied to improve prevention and response to these events. Several initiatives seek to mitigate natural disasters and rely on technologies such as the Internet of Things, crowdsourcing, volunteer training, society involvement, among others. Although there are many initiatives in this regard, building a model enabling real mitigation of natural disasters remains a major challenge. This study aims to present a Natural Disaster Mitigation model, which combines different technologies through the construction of a multidisciplinary group composed of researchers, students, civil defense technicians, and the municipal school network. The goal is to develop and implement a meteorological monitoring network using low-cost technological artifacts installed in school systems in the target cities.