Significant Initiatives for Managing Emergency Response at Drilling Rigs in Remote Areas - Smart Alert System (SAS)

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Al-Shatti ◽  
Abdulwahab Al-Rakdan ◽  
Ali Al-Khaldy
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Alert System ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Drilling Rigs

scholarly journals The use of rapid diagnostic kits for the rapid presumptive identification of bioterrorist agents

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
John Bates
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Potential Risk ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Alert System ◽  
Diagnostic Kits ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
Presumptive Identification ◽  
Biowarfare Agent

The events of 11 September 2001 and the subsequent US anthrax mail attacks placed enormous pressure on emergency response agencies to be able to rapidly assess the potential risk of an incident as a possible case of bioterrorism. In response to this perceived need to rapidly identify bioterrorist agents in the field, a number of hand-held ?tickets? appeared in the market and were promoted heavily to emergency response personnel. These included products from Tetracore (Guardian Bio-Threat Alert System), Alexis, Sigma-Aldrich (BADD ? Biowarfare Agent Detection Device) and RAMP. This brief discussion will examine the current knowledge on such devices and their applications for the detection of bioterrorist agents.

scholarly journals Intelligent fire detection and alert system using labVIEW

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1842 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fakrulradzi Idris ◽  
Norlezah Hashim ◽  
Ahmad Fauzan Kadmin ◽  
Lee Boon Yee
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Serial Communication ◽  
Fire Detection ◽  
Sensor Nodes ◽  
Alert System ◽  
Labview Software ◽  
Detection Systems ◽  
System Temperature ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Friendly Graphical User Interface

Fire detection systems are designed to discover fires and allow the safe evacuation of occupants as well as protecting the safety of emergency response personnel. This paper describes the design and development of a fire detection and alert system. Temperature and flame sensors are used to indicate the occurrence of fire. This work consists of two parts, which are transmitter and receiver, both using ZigBee wireless technology. Arduino Uno is used as the microcontroller at the transmitter part to control the sensor nodes and give alert when over temperature and flame are detected. At the transmitter, the collected data from the sensors are transmitted by an XBee module operated as router node. At the receiver side, an XBee coordinator module which is attached to a computer using USB to serial communication captured the data for further processing. In addition, an interactive and user-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) is developed. LabVIEW software is used to design the GUI which displays and analyze the possibility of fire happening. The system can display the fire location and provides early warning to allow occupants to escape the building safely.

Simulating “Peripheral Harm” as an AMBER Alert Issuance Criterion: Implications for Anticipating Threats to Child Safety

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 669-686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua H. Williams ◽  
Timothy Griffin ◽  
Danielle Miller ◽  
John Wooldredge
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Empirical Evaluation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Alert System ◽  
Negative Finding ◽  
The Public ◽  
Amber Alerts ◽  
Using Data

Although there is some limited research on the effectiveness of the America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response (AMBER) Alert system, to date, there has been no research specifically examining the viability of prospective AMBER Alert issuance criteria. Using data acquired from various media accounts of 446 AMBER Alerts issued in the United States and Canada, we examine how well “peripheral harm” (harm to someone other than the abducted child during the course of the abduction) predicts subsequent harm to the abducted child. Counterintuitively (from the perspective of AMBER Alert issuance decision making), peripheral harm or threat is negatively associated with harm to the victim in cases involving an AMBER Alert. Furthermore, this negative finding is spurious, and is primarily driven by the fact that, disproportionately, the abductors who commit “peripheral harm” in AMBER alert cases are parents and other family members of the child who are presumably unlikely to harm child relatives despite whatever violence they might commit (or threaten) against others. We discuss the implications for the use of peripheral harm as an AMBER Alert issuance criterion, the empirical evaluation of the system, and the public discourse surrounding the AMBER Alert system and its relationship to child protection in general.

Life Case: Inelastic Collision based Automobile Crash Detection and Alert System via 3G Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Kesavakumar Sivalingam ◽  
Siva Priya Thiagarajah ◽  
Azwan Mahmud
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Inelastic Collision ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Android Application ◽  
Alert System ◽  
3G Network ◽  
Alert Message ◽  
Cloud Database ◽  
Accident Detection ◽  
Automobile Crash

Accident detection and alert systems that can pinpoint the whereabouts of an accident are crucial to ensure the concerned authorities are informed instantaneously about the occurrence of an accident, in order for the deployment of emergency response to save lives in the least amount of time. A 3G incorporated accident detection system, known as Life Case is designed to discover the accidents between automobiles and, send the timestamp, and the actual position of an accident, to a developed android application built using Android Studio, via a cloud database. The alert message is presented using Google Maps which helps user to save plenty of time through easy navigation feature towards the accident location. Life Case measures the acceleration of an automobile during a collision using the Theory of Inelastic Collision.

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