Khan Taslim Arefin, Toha Tarik Reza, Salim Saiful Islam, Tahmid Md Toki, Islam A B M Alim Al
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Heliyon. 2022 Apr 29;8(5):e09314. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09314. eCollection 2022 May.
The number of disasters, accidents, and casualties in disasters is increasing, however, technological advancement has yet to ripe benefits to emergency rescue operations. This contrast is even more prominent in the Global South. The consequences are a huge loss of wealth and resources, but more importantly, the loss of lives. Locating victims of disasters as quickly as possible while speeding up rescue operations can lessen these losses. Traditional approaches for effective victim localization and rescue often requires the establishment of additional infrastructure during the construction period. Which in the context of countries of the global south such as - Bangladesh, is not followed for most of the industrial and household constructions. In this paper, we conduct a study to better understand the challenges of victim localization in emergency rescue operations and to overcome them using "whatever" resources available at hand without needing prior infrastructure facilities and pre-calibration. We design and develop a solution for this purpose and deployed it in several emulated disaster-like scenarios. We analyze and discuss the results obtained from our experiments. Finally, we point out the design implications of an infrastructure-independent and extensive emergency rescue system.
灾害、事故以及灾害中的伤亡人数正在增加，然而，技术进步尚未给应急救援行动带来成熟的益处。这种反差在全球南方更为突出。其后果是财富和资源的巨大损失，但更重要的是生命的损失。尽快找到灾害受害者并加快救援行动可以减少这些损失。传统的有效受害者定位和救援方法通常需要在建设期间建立额外的基础设施。而在孟加拉国等全球南方国家的背景下，大多数工业和家庭建筑并未遵循这一点。在本文中，我们进行了一项研究，以更好地理解应急救援行动中受害者定位的挑战，并利用手头现有的“任何”资源来克服这些挑战，而无需事先的基础设施和预校准。我们为此设计并开发了一种解决方案，并将其部署在几个类似灾害的模拟场景中。我们分析并讨论了从实验中获得的结果。最后，我们指出了一个独立于基础设施且广泛的应急救援系统的设计意义。
