Last modified: 2016-05-18
Abstract
The concept of a Smart Safety City is to provide an intelligent hazard and disaster prevention system. Currently, typhoons and earthquakes are the two major disasters that Taiwanese people often encounter. According to the Disaster Prevention and Protection Act of Taiwan, natural disasters are defined as the catastrophes resulted from windstorm, flooding, earthquake, drought, frost, and debris flow. Recently, many countries, such as Taiwan, view compound disasters, which are catastrophes occurring one after another, as a major concern for disaster prevention on a national level.
For disaster prevention, calamity caused by typhoon can be predicted and evaluated through weather information. Typhoon forecast and monitoring, including wind velocity, rain fall area, and the time of influence, are carried out by the Central Weather Bureau. In addition, the National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction provides typhoon information acquired from other nations. During the typhoon, the Water Resource Agency and Soil and Water Conservation Bureau set the disaster standard based on the rain fall forecast. Any emergency measures that need to be taken would depend on the accuracy and the immediacy of the collected information, as well as the reliability of the prep-work. However, current earthquake prediction techniques can still not fulfill the forecast standard procedure, because earthquakes are difficult to predict. The safety of the building can only be evaluated through structural analysis to assess its seismic capability.
In order to effectively reduce damage caused by disasters, the concept and measures of disaster prevention should include mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. Figure 1 shows the preliminary Safety and Disaster Prevention flowchart, which includes pre-disaster, disaster, and post-disaster stages and the related services of each stage. The integrated structure is the basis of the Smart Safety City system.
Figure 1 Service Process Safety and Disaster Prevention preliminary ideas
Figure 2 a schematic view of security monitoring and disaster communications
Upon the completion of designing the protocol of safety process and disaster prevention as suggested by Figure 1, the results and discussions of the relevant documents and records are elaborated in the following reports:
1. Building Disaster service process design documents
2. Building Health Check Assessment Technical Report
3. Construction geometric displacement of the feature point identification technical report
4. structural feature points system frequency identification technical report
5. The structural disaster monitoring management guidelines elaboration file
6. The structural reinforcement repair Technical Report