Predictive Natural Disaster Response Server

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Solution Overview

Problem

Natural disaster response planning often inadequately considers the interrelationship between human and animal populations, leading to shortages and extended lead times in providing essential supplies.

Innovation Solution

A server uses machine learning models to predict rehabilitation needs and determine optimal relocation locations for animal populations, generating relocation plans that integrate with human population responses, leveraging a blockchain for data integrity and reliability.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If natural disaster response planning focuses only on human population needs, then human supply delivery can be prioritized, but animal population needs are neglected causing supply shortages and extended lead times

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesupply delivery efficiencyVSAvoidsupply adequacy
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges human and animal population response planning into a unified system. The machine learning models simultaneously process both human demographic data and animal population data, generating integrated relocation plans that coordinate both populations' needs. This combination ensures that supply delivery considers both human and animal requirements, preventing shortages while maintaining efficiency.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary action by predicting animal population rehabilitation needs and determining optimal relocation locations before the disaster strikes. Machine learning models analyze historical data and current conditions to pre-identify suitable relocation sites and estimate resource requirements, enabling advance preparation of supplies and reducing lead times during actual disaster response.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Device complexity

If animal population relocation is not considered in disaster planning, then planning complexity is reduced, but ecosystem interrelationships are neglected leading to inadequate response plans

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveplanning system complexityVSAvoidresponse plan accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces machine learning models as an intermediary that automatically processes the complexity of integrating animal population considerations. These models take multiple input parameters including animal species, population density, habitat requirements, and disaster type, then automatically generate relocation recommendations. This intermediary handles the computational complexity, allowing planners to access accurate ecosystem-integrated plans without being overwhelmed by the intricacies of the analysis.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms the planning process by changing parameters from traditional human-only metrics to multi-parameter inputs that include animal population characteristics, species-specific needs, habitat requirements, and ecological relationships. This parameter expansion enables comprehensive ecosystem consideration while the machine learning models manage the increased dimensionality, maintaining measurement precision without proportionally increasing planning complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

Data Source

PatentUS11501188B2Technology for predictive natural disaster response
Publication Date: 2022.11.15 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION
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AI summary

In predictive natural disaster response, a server determines an affected location predicted to be affected by a natural disaster and determines whether the type of natural disaster requires relocation of an animal population at the affected location. When relocation is required, using machine learning models, the server generates a rehabilitation needs prediction for the relocation, determines an optimal location for the relocation from candidate locations, and generates a relocation plan to relocate the animal population from the affected location to the optimal location. When relocation is not required, using the machine learning models, the server generates a demands prediction for products and services at the affected location, generates a supply prediction for the products and the services at the affect location, and generates a supply plan using the demands and supply predictions.