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UBIQUITOUS NETWORKS IN DISASTERS & EMERGENCIES

7th Korea Communications Conference, Seoul, KoreaMay 12 , 2011 (version of May 4, 2011)

update: February 17, 2013

by Gerhard FasolEurotechnology Japan KK

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COMMUNICATIONS FOR DISASTERS• How does it feel in a disaster? - Why we need to prepare

• Why warning systems save lives

• Communicating during disasters:

• Which information do we need? “Situational awareness”

• What do we need to communicate?

• How can we communicate and why we need social networks and twitter

• Some lessons learnt from Japan’s March 11, 2011 triple disasters

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HOW DOES IT FEEL IN A DISASTER?• Earthquake:

• no time, no escape, uncertainty of what is next, afterquakes (yoshin)

• Tsunami, broken dam, flooding

• most people had no idea what a giant Tsunami is, run for your life to a high location as fast as you can

• Nuclear disaster :

• radiation is invisible, need for measurements, need for warning

• Vulcano

• Storm, hurricane

• Sudden military attack, terror attack

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WHY WE NEED TO PREPARE NOW• When disaster strikes, there is no time at all.

• Communications saves lives, especially in the case of Tsunami

• Harden communication systems against breakdown

• Design communication systems to be resilient

• Protect the communicators

• (during Japan’s March 11, 2011 tsunami disaster, several emergency communication system operators died because the emergency communication system command centers were unprotected against the tsunami)

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WHY WARNING SYSTEMS SAVE LIVES

• especially important for Tsunami

• there is some time (a few minutes, up to one hour) between quake and Tsunami

• you must run as fast as you can to the highest possible location

• if driving a car, you must avoid being stuck in a traffic jam and you must drive away from the Tsunami as fast as you can

• in the case of an earthquake there is no time.

• advance warning gives a few seconds of preparation

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ETWS = EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM (3GPP)

• a global standard promoted by Japan

• Primary notification within 4 seconds, provide most urgent warning

• Secondary notification with instructions

• include security and authentication, to prevent spoofing

• delivery via cell broadcast within defined local areas

• Should be expanded to other emergencies (e.g. vulcano, attack)

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COMMUNICATING DURING DISASTERS• Personal communication

• What is the situation? (situational awareness)

• Where is my family and friends? Do they need help?

• Tell family and friends where I am. Do I need help?

• What do I need to do?

• Responders

• situational awareness, organize help

• make sure responders can communicate with each other15




WHICH INFORMATION DO WE NEED?

• Situational awareness:

• need to understand the situation

• Communication with family and friends, with responders

• Need information to take action:

• how to get home, whether to evacuate, protect against radiation, where to escape to (the Japan March 11, 2011 tsunami killed people who escaped to the wrong places)

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WHAT DO WE NEED TO COMMUNICATE?

• Where are immediate family and friends?

• are they safe?

• do they need help?

• Tell immediate family and friends where I am

• tell them where I am

• tell them if I need help

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HOW CAN WE COMMUNICATE?

• During March 11, 2011 disaster in Japan:

• mobile voice phone did not work for several days

• mobile email almost did not work (need to try 20-30 times in order to send one mobile email/text message)

• internet worked

• social networks worked

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WHY WE NEED SOCIAL NETWORKS AND TWITTER

• Internet was designed under DARPA contract to enable communications during nuclear war

• Mobile phone number is fixed to device (via SIM card):

• if the mobile phone network fails, or if the mobile phone runs out of battery, or falls into water, the mobile phone number as ID becomes useless and we cannot be reached

• Twitter, or social network system:

• ID is independent of device, works on many devices

• asynchronous: we can read the message and respond when we are able to read

• Broadcast mode allows broadcast of messages to large numbers of followers

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TWITTER: THE PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN

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TWITTER: JAPAN’S FIRE SERVICES

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SOME LESSONS LEARNT FROM JAPAN’S TRIPLE DISASTERS

• Warning systems for Tsunami need to be improved

• for example, in some cases the operators of the Tsunami warning system were not protected and lost their lives heroically

• Mobile email / mobile internet systems did not work well for 2-3 days after March 11, could be improved

• Radiation warning systems need to be improved.

• some people in Tokyo panicked because sufficient information about the true radiation situation was difficult to obtain

• Some radiation data were transported by messengers(!), some urgently needed radiation data were not distributed until weeks later

• Social networking systems and Twitter are extremely useful and resilient

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SUMMARY

• Nobody wants to be in a disaster, but when disaster strikes:

• there is no time: split seconds can decide on life or death

• priority becomes: to survive

• in the case of a nuclear disaster, radiation data are crucial and need to be distributed effectively

• Preparations must be done now.

• Once disaster strikes, there is no time

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EUROTECHNOLOGY JAPAN KK

• Leading high-tech consulting boutique in Tokyo working globally

• Founded 1997, worked with many of world’s largest corporations (SIEMENS, Deutsche Telekom, NTT, IKEA,... on technology projects in Japan)

• Work in financial sector includes:

• worked with more than 100 investment fund managers on electronic money and mobile payment opportunities

• worked with one of the largest financial groups: found mobile banking system malfunction and assisted in identification of security issues, led to technology advisory contract

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GERHARD FASOL

• Worked successfully with Japan’s high-tech sector since 1984 - 27 years. Came first to Japan in 1984 to help build NTT’s first international R&D cooperation

• Entrepreneur in Tokyo since 1996, Eurotechnology Japan KK worked with many large corporate groups (e.g. SIEMENS, NTT, Deutsche Telekom, Asahi Glass...), more than 100 investment fund managers

• Previously: Assoc. Professor of Electrical Engineering at Tokyo University, Tenured Faculty member at Cavendish Laboratory/University of Cambridge. Co-initiator of spin-electronics device research in Japan.

• Education: PhD in Physics (Cambridge University, Trinity College, UK)

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- Worked successfully with Japan’s high-tech sector since 1984 - 27 years. Came first to Japan in 1984 to help build NTT’s first international R&D cooperation on semiconductor lasers

- Entrepreneur in Tokyo since 1996, Eurotechnology Japan KK worked with many large corporate groups (e.g. SIEMENS, NTT, Deutsche Telekom, Asahi Glass...), more than 100 investment fund managers

- Assoc. Professor of Electrical Engineering at Tokyo University. Record of Fasol-Laboratory at Tokyo University: http://www.fasol.com/tokyo_university/

- Elite “Sakigake” (Pioneer) R&D project on Spin-Electronics of Japanese Government Science and Technology Agency. This work was evaluated by US National Science Foundation and US Department of Trade: http://www.wtec.org/loyola/erato/ch7_5.htm

- Co-initiator of spin-electronics device research in Japan, one of the first to start work on spin-electronics in Japan in 1991

- Tenured Faculty member at Cavendish Laboratory/University of Cambridge. - Assoc. Professor of Electrical Engineering at Tokyo University- PhD in Solid-State Physics (Cambridge University, Trinity College, UK)- Diplom-Physiker, Ruhr-University Bochum (Diplom-Thesis on Superconductivity)- Publication list (Books, patents and publications, several publications are specifially concerning

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“POST GALAPAGOS STUDY GROUP”25 JAPANESE LEADERS + 1 FOREIGNER (GERHARD FASOL) WORKING FOR ONE YEAR ON CONCEPTS TO OVERCOME JAPAN’S “GALAPAGOS EFFECT”

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CONTACT AND MORE INFORMATION

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Contact•Gerhard Fasol PhD•Eurotechnology Japan KK, Tokyo, Japan•http://www.eurotechnology.com/ •Mobile +81-90-8594-6291•[email protected]•[email protected]

More information:•reports:http://www.eurotechnology.com/store/•twitter : http://twitter.com/gfasol/ •website: http://www.eurotechnology.com/ •personal site: http://fasol.com















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