Tracking the Status of Critical Services during a Disaster (IMAGE)

U.S. National Science Foundation

Tracking the Status of Critical Services during a Disaster

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Over the last seven years, a Florida International University (FIU) team has been working in collaboration with government and industry partners (such as the Miami-Dade and Palm Beach Offices of Emergency Management, WalMart, Home Depot, Verizon Wireless and many others) to build an FIU-hosted and community-driven service for information sharing and exchange to operate during and after a hurricane recovery period. This image shows a snapshot of the current web-based prototype that displays in an intuitive and user-friendly manner the information collected from various sources. In this project, leveraging their prior research results and a new corroboration with researchers from the University of Tokyo, the team will develop intelligent, context-aware and user-specific solutions to address the critical information exchange needs in disaster affected networks.

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Tao Li, School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University

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