10272010 rfid network as early warning system (gs radjou)
1. PROJECT TITLE: RFID SENSORS M anagement I nformation S ystem i.e. E ARLY W ARNING S YSTEM ( E.W.S. ) TO PROTECT A COMMUNITY VILLAGE FROM WATER HAZARD (SCOPE) [email_address]
2. PART I: USED CONCEPTS: +Integrated Flood Management + 100 km Risk/Hazard zones + Early Warning System
9. Early Warning Sytem (EWS) -The basic communication principle- Detection/emission (Signal sender) message medium/transmission support Detection/reception (Signal receiver) Water hazards Feed-back GS RADJOU (SENSOR COMMUNICATION SUPPORT SYSTEM PRINCIPLES Message from the sender should be clear warning ie the EWS able to convey meanings and understandings to the receiver/recipients -people at risk of flood-of the message in order to have a successful EWS ie effective and efficient EWS) Flood data Data codage Data transmision Data decodage Data interpretation
26. Project organisation (To match the supply and demand) The match between supply and demand for relief goods during recovery operations is defined by the forecast and the adjustment made by the project organization to reduce risks based on responsiveness linked to the sensor n etwork This model remove the confusion with the Economy of a crisis and the management of crisis
59. SOURCE OF UNCERTAINTIES LIKE THE UNDERCOVERAGE OR DARK ZONES DUE TO ABSENCE OR OF FORECASTS OR ORGANIZATION RESPONSIVENESS DURING UNPREDICTED FLOOD ARE REMOVED BY THE FINE TUNING OF AN EARLY WARNING SYSTEM BASED ON THE SENSOR NETWORK AND HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM GS RADJOU
It is my own design for water hazard Early Warning System based on 2 experiences: Experience 1: a technology system based on sensors, therefore the title of the project. In fact, in a situation like the one, which is described in water hazards i.e. one needs to be very close to events in a real space and time (slide coordination centres for data netwok). My feeling a good system to alert people from a likely danger from flood should be able to give them a feel to what would happen if they are caught by flood risk (slide on flood EWS communication basic principles) , thus they should take all steps to self-alleviate -or with rescue team helps-from the risks caused by floodr. Experience 2: a second characteristic of the project is going beyond flood prediction arrival times by putting these sensor network into effective and efficient use in real time by using Radio Frequency Identification Detections (RFID)
I t is about basic concepts behind the project. One would called it the science of the project. In summary, there are 3 concepts: Concept 1 : the flood concept given by the Word Meteorological Organization int the WMO flood program, which has been used and lectures during the World Water Week in Stockholm By the WMO Flood Division Director ie Mr Avinash Tyagi « used the sediments and pollution concepts » -As I feel that flood is a wide concept and for the purpose of the project design, my own defintion would retain only these elements that help to survive a flood risk. Thus, making a project for flood estuarine people or flood prone regions. Concept 2 : precisely, as the World bank meeting demonstrated with the stakeholders particpiation, precautionary measure should be applied within the 100 km overland or underground of a source of flood. Sediments and pollution travels on a long distance from the place where the flood sources. Stakeholders decided that 100km zone is a limit to precautionary measure for water safety purpose. Concept 3 : it is about effectiveness and efficiency of Early Warning Systems. We have learned lessons from failures of Dec 26, 2004 tsunamy in South East Asia Early Warning System. EWS should be able to convey the message, but also this message should have a meaning and an understanding. These are the EWS properties.
Typical geogaphycal scenarii flood disaster are the flood plains and often a river estuarine- but in my project WAER access to water ,.... there is no limits to sources for flood risks. « A surrealist poet has described the Earth surface like being a blue Orange. Eluard Poetry was real because not only the surface of the orange is blue, but inside the earth today can be compared with the flesh of an Orange ie full of the juicy liquid, which is underground waters. United Nations i.e. UN-water, UNESCO,.. found there are nearly at least 300 tranboundary known aquifers (and 270 rivers, lakes....), in the world., it means there are 99,99 times more water inside the soil undergrounds than in rivers, lakes,....and other water surface features. So, because of surface waters and aquifers are not comparmented easily, there will be much more flood risks (99.9 times more!?) in the future at the light of global warming in towns and the countryside. Integrated Flood Management (IFM ) is a subset of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM), which is about managing flood risks in a global package of solutions for a river basin -and not like in the old times with piecemeal projects- My practical concept for flood for the project design is about observing the impact sources of flood, issues and impacts on people livelyhood and properties. I mean like evrybody, all disasters have the same impacts like food/water, transportsbut I had focused primarily of the rule of thum