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Early warning systems in practice: performance of the SAFE system in the field

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Michael Klafft,

Tobias Kräntzer,

Ulrich Meissen,

Agnès VoisardAuthors Info & Claims

GIS '09: Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Pages 436 - 439

https://doi.org/10.1145/1653771.1653838

Published: 04 November 2009 Publication History

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Extreme weather conditions often cause considerable damage. Much of this damage could be mitigated if people were better prepared for disasters to come. Therefore, public authorities and private enterprises have been investing in Early Warning Systems (EWS) in the past few years. The EWS SAFE (Sensor-Actuator based Early warning system for extreme weather conditions) provides an integrated platform which combines (i) distributed weather sensor networks, (ii) efficient location-specific weather prognosis modules, and (iii) an alerting system. The alerting system is used to supply the general public and emergency services with personalized, situation-dependent information on upcoming extreme weather conditions. Furthermore, SAFE is able to steer remote-controlled actuators that induce automated counter measures, such as disconnecting sensitive electronic equipment from the power grid. This paper describes the deployment of SAFE by an industrial consortium in the town of Mering in Germany, with focus on its performance when alerting the public during a severe thunderstorm.

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Klafft, M.; Kräntzer, T.; Meissen, U.; Voisard, A. 2008. SAFE: A Sensor-Actuator-based Early Warning System for Extreme Weather Conditions. In: Pebesma, E.; Bishr, M.; Bartoschek, T. (eds.): Proceedings of the International 6^th Geographic Information Days, Münster :IfGIprints, 329--330.

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Meissen, U.; Voisard, A. 2008. Increasing the Effectiveness of Early Warning via Context-aware Alerting. In Fiedrich, F.; Van de Walle, B. (eds.): Proceedings of the 5th International Conference, on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), 431--440.

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GIS '09: Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

November 2009

575 pages

ISBN:9781605586496

DOI:10.1145/1653771

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Ouri Wolfson
University of Illinois at Chicago
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University of California, Santa Barbara
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Virginia Tech

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Meissen UPfennigschmidt SHardt MFaust D(2018)KATWARN—A Microservice-Based Architecture for Distributed, Flexible and Robust Warning SystemsAdvances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics10.1007/978-3-319-99654-7_14(213-225)Online publication date: 4-Nov-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99654-7_14
Mehta PMüller SVoisard A(2013)MoveSafeProceedings of the Second ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information10.1145/2534732.2534735(15-22)Online publication date: 5-Nov-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2534732.2534735
Mehta PVoisard AMüller SKazemitabar S(2013)Clustering spatial data streams for targeted alerting in disaster responseProceedings of the 4th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming10.1145/2534303.2534307(66-75)Online publication date: 5-Nov-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2534303.2534307

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