CRISIS MANAGEMENT USING AD HOC BIONIC HANDSET NETWORK

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CRISIS MANAGEMENT USING AD-HOC BIONIC HANDSET

NETWORK

S.Mythili1, E.Shalini2

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PG Scholar, Dept. of ECE, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, TamilNadu, India

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Assistant Professor, Dept. of ECE, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, TamilNadu, India

Abstract- A chaotic world has become a ground for numerous natural disasters and man-made disasters. Natural disasters like Tsunamis, flood, earthquakes, hurricanes and storms or human caused events like large scale terrorist attacks or nuclear disasters, traditional communication systems can be totally destroyed and make the poor communication. This situation makes the rescue operations extremely difficult to help the trapped survivors. Getting ‘Right data at a right time’ is a tough challenge in case of any pre and post crisis situation. An antidote for this is to create a Smartphone ad-hoc network (SPAN) by creating ‘Bionic warrior’ as a classic application on the Android platform and deployed it on the readily available smart phones for emergency communications using the short range radio Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi). The proposed Bionic warrior application has developed by using the JAVA platform. This application assist the users to communicate each other by setting up an ad-hoc network for rescue

operations even when there is no network coverage in the mobile phone. This network is independent of freelancer and robust to failure during any calamity to pass the rescue messages at the right time.

Keywords- smart phone, crisis management, android applications

1. Introduction:

Smartphone attracts the users and increasing its popularity in world- wide due to its powerful processing and wireless network capabilities. The number of smart phone users in India is estimated to reach around 204.1 million by the end of 2016. It enables users to communicate and share information in easily convenient way. Apart from its in-built features many additional android applications are developed which helps the society flexibly by providing proper gathering of data and information exchange process as a corner stone for everything.

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In an emergency, an individual who is already in crisis seems to be helpless to report the emergency to a response team. It believes that using latest tool and technology like smart phone provides a better way for it. The role of smartphone technology in emergency management has involved in tracking

emergency zones, along with users‟ location via enabling the GPS. By using Internet connection, users can send and receive updates related to any disaster situation. Modern smart phones have computational platform with embedded sensors to detect the location through maps, to sense the strength of geomagnetic field and automatically updates with the response teams.

In this project, proposed Bionic Warrior is an android application which can respond efficiently and effectively in the risky situations which in turn inform in a timely manner using the ad-hoc network which can be created on-the-fly. Data Communication is carried out among the trapped survivors and rescue team using the short range radio called Wi-Fi hotspot which supports in constrained and infrastructure-less scenarios.

It is also an energy efficient method for the survivors to discover rescue workers and send out emergency messages using the Bionic warrior application. The main contribution of this project is the design and implementation of Bionic warrior app after some kind of evaluation made on it. It consists of a messaging system and emergency calling system simply called as self-rescue system. The messaging system can carry out some text transmissions with affordable delay using Wi-Fi hotspot. Emergency calling system is to provide information to the emergency contacts about

the crisis and the status of the trapped survivors.

1.1 Problem statement

Person trapped in any crisis will not be able to inform the rescue team immediately and wait for their help perhaps he/she try to flee if they are conscious and know about emergency. More dangerous situations occur when person is not able to take action against emergency for example physically handicapped person or old age citizen who cannot step down immediately from emergency place. So there is a need for a handy tool which works in those critical situations to inform the status of the victims to others.

1.2 Objective

The Primary objective of the project is to  Develop an android application which will work in Emergency, and will record & report emergency in real time.

 Able to convey the crucial information like Person in emergency, emergency type and emergency location.

 Utilizing short range wireless radio – Wi-Fi

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Figure 3.1 Block diagram of proposed Architecture

3. Application Flowchart

Bionic Warrior is an Android application, it follows standard framework of android application development and its conventions. It has main Activity and respective layouts where it follows the order of standard callback methods for Activity flow. The main activity of Bionic Warrior consists of on Start callback where reference of mobile hotspots in Smartphone is used for handling further communication with other devices. It reports handy information about emergency and send it to the app user at starting of this application. Rescue messages and Emergency Calling are the two high lightened things of this application. Sending and Receiving the Rescue messages are possible in case of no network coverage whereas the emergency calling feature needs the network coverage but the advantage is time taking for search and call is minimum when compared to normal calling facility.

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The Bionic warrior application flow will follow as

Figure 4.1: Flow of Bionic Warrior Application

4. Design and Implementation

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5. Testing Scenario Results and its Discussion

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This section briefs about the different test scenarios that are tested on Bionic Warrior application for emergency reporting. The testing has been performed using Lava Iris 503 with operating system Android v4.2.2 (Jelly Bean) and kernel version of 3.4.5. It has an internal memory of 2 GB and 512 MB of RAM. The app can be used on other versions of Android as well.

Figure 5.1 Inclusion of Bionic Warrior in the Application List of Android mobile

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The Splash screen of Bionic Warrior app consists of several buttons like Rescue Message button, texting button, send button, Contact number button and Emergency calling button, Aero symbol button as shown in fig.5.2

Figure 5.2 Home screen of Bionic Warrior App

 „Text‟ button allows user to enter the rescue messages and send it to nearby user via clicking the „send‟ button

 The user can make call by selecting any of the emergency contacts from the saved items and press the „Emergency calling‟ button

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Figure 5.3 Snapshot of Communication between two users

The message can be communicated between the users via IP address of the device which lies in the wifi coverage area of approximately 100 feet distance. The text communication does not need any of the network, it works even without sim card.

Figure 5.4 Snapshot while calling one among the emergency contact list

Emergency call is possible through the Bionic Warrior App during any crisis but the only thing needed here is network coverage. If the contact will not be in the list then it will send the error message like “Call not sent”. Emergency call is the facility that enables users to make a call at instant of any emergency using normal phones. The emergency number may be anything from the phone contacts in addition to the traditional three digit number can be saved in prior this makes its features in an enhanced manner to support the android mobile users in a smart way in case of critical situations.

6. Statistical Analysis

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In a critical circumstances, number of users use their smart phones are represented in percentage. 50% users use their smart phones in emergency situations including local accidents, 14% users use their smart phones to notify the emergency management authorities to get help in case of any disaster, 8% users use their smart phones for medical emergency, 5% use their phones for emergency helpline like 911 or HELP ME emergency app, 3% users use fire applications [10].

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7. Conclusion

The discussed android application is expected to be a feasible and time being solution for the people who are trapped and require help in case of no network coverage during disaster. As per the problem statement defined in earlier section, proposed robust system is real time system which reports emergency and communicate this message to outside world with the help of wireless radio Wi-Fi. System implementation and their respective experiments show the positive feedback on systems working model. Various enhancement techniques can also be used in future to increase the performance of the rescue system. Bionic Warrior is developed on Wi-Fi as short range communication radio. Future work can be carried out on the other options to facilitate wide network scenario. Same way proposed system can be implemented for other mobile OS like Windows, iOS or platforms like Phone Gap.

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