Self-organizing technology for disaster response and recovery
a which is applied in the field of self-organizing technology for disaster response and recovery, can solve the problems of insufficient emergency response capacity to handle major disasters, civilians only rarely adequately prepare themselves and their homes for disasters, and locals may not, and likely will not, understand the purpose, procedures, and vocabulary of the responder's c&c system
Pending Publication Date: 2022-08-18
LOWENSOHN BRENT A
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Benefits of technology
This system enables faster, more effective local response to disasters by empowering untrained civilians to organize and perform emergency tasks, improving communication and integration with professional responders, reducing casualties and enhancing community resilience.
Problems solved by technology
First, current emergency response capacity is not sufficient to handle the major disasters.
Second, civilians only rarely adequately prepare themselves and their homes for disasters, despite the flood of information and encouragement from the government.
The locals, however, may not, and likely won't, understand the purpose, procedures, and vocabulary of responder's C&C system.
On the other hand, the professional responders likely won't understand the survivor's impromptu organizational structure, vocabulary and processes.
Any impromptu organizational structure may also have difficulties in formation and execution, as, for example, frictions between possible participants may result in decreased participation and / or efficiencies.
These frictions may arise as there may be disagreements as to the form of organization, the contours of functional roles within the organization, and who will fill those functional roles.
Further inefficiencies will also arise simply due to the time to be taken in arriving at organizational structure and roles.
In addition, the members of an impromptu organization simply may not know how to respond to what to them may be a novel and unexpected situation outside the realm of their normal experience.
In Los Angeles it is anticipated that an earthquake that will disrupt physical access to the affected area by damaging roads and communications infrastructure will hit California in the near future.
The massive increase in demand and lack of infrastructure will overwhelm emergency services.
As a result, the average resident will not have access to emergency services for up to two weeks.
CERT also recognizes that there are insufficient civilian volunteers in the case of a major disaster.
The CERT program trains a few thousand civilian volunteers per year to respond to natural disasters, but even LA's CERT officials recognize that there are insufficient trainees for a major disaster.
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[0028]An embodiment of the invention provides a self-contained just-in-time management and training system in a box or box-like form. In some embodiments the system is a disaster response enablement system. In one embodiment this is a rugged box, approximately one to three foot cube, which contains items having information, with the information such that recipients of the information can be informed of emergency related tasks to undertake in a step-by-step manner. In various embodiments each item having information is separable from others of the items having information, and each item having information includes specific information for performing a particular role in an organization for responding to an emergency, including, for various roles, recruitment of additional individuals to perform subsidiary roles within the organization. Accordingly, in some embodiments the items of information define functional roles in an organization, provide information as to how to perform those f...
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People facing emergencies, such as disasters, may not receive external assistance in a timely manner, instead having to rely on themselves for critical or extended periods. A system including emergency response containers providing both for organizational structure, including a method of assigning roles to available individuals, and task domain knowledge for organizational elements, namely the people facing and experiencing the emergency, allows for organic emergency response and eases transition to and effectiveness of external professional emergency response providers. In some embodiments the system is modular and adjustable for different situations.
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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION[0001]The present application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 13 / 523,504, filed Jun. 14, 2012, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein.BACKGROUND[0002]The present invention relates generally to emergency response systems, and more particularly to systems and methods for organic organized emergency response.[0003]Current disaster preparedness plans and programs have five, or more, well-known deficiencies.[0004]First, current emergency response capacity is not sufficient to handle the major disasters. The vast majority of current response capability depends on usable infrastructure, particularly navigable roads. Our hospitals are sized to handle day-to-day loads, not catastrophic loads, and not disasters where their own staff is personally affected as well. In seismic disasters immediate responses are required in non-medical areas such as fire control, evaluation of structural damage, freeing trapp...
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IPC IPC(8): G09B19/00G09B29/00B65D77/28B65D25/28B65D77/04
CPCG09B19/003G09B29/00B65D2577/043B65D25/2841B65D77/0453B65D77/28B65D25/2858B65D43/22B65D43/24B65D2203/00
InventorLOWENSOHN, BRENT A.
OwnerLOWENSOHN BRENT A