Dear All,
We at Internet Policy Observatory Pakistan are running an initiative called TOPS (Tactical Operations) activated during disasters across Pakistan. Basically our tactical operations provide the following:
I would be happy to share further insight in to out planning and deployment if needed.
Best,
Arzak Khan
Suggest that there are two (at least) genres that need to be merged --
treated together. Emergency services (reach to fire/ ambulance/
police/ ...) is the other genre. In a disaster, expect a push to build
out both.
Emergency services communications is one of the bastions of non-IP
technologies. P25 is an example of a protocol heavily pushed by
various emergency services agencies. But it's non-routable. Much of
the development has been colored by the perceived need to jam whatever
comms link is concocted into the narrowband Land Mobile Radio channels
(25kHz and less).
The economics is that the two genres end up costing twice for the
infrastructure. This is true both for permanent infrastructure and
quick-build into disaster areas.
Warning: this is an area of acrimonious debate, often sadly lacking in
facts. But it is a debate that needs to be joined.
On Tue, 2017-10-03 at 17:40 +0100, Arjuna Sathiaseelan wrote:
> Hello Steve,
>
> the IEEE global humanitarian technology conference is a good venue to
> look at for the latest research/deployment experience papers:
>
> last year: http://sites.ieee.org/ghtc/event-2016/call-for-papers-2016
> /
>
>
> this looks like a good journal to keep an eye on when the papers get
> published: http://ieeeaccess.ieee.org/special-sections-closed/mission
> -critical-public-safety-communications-architectures-enablin g-
> technologies-future-applications/
> regards
>
> a decent survey paper:
> http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/87438/5/Survey_of_wireless_co mmunicati
> on_technologies_for_public_safety.pdf
>
> regards
>
> On 3 October 2017 at 17:25, Steve Song <stevesong@nsrc.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Are there any particularly good web resources and/or academic
> > papers that
> > profile the range of disaster relief technologies / solutions both
> > planned
> > and currently in use?
> >
> > Many thanks... Steve
> >
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