ABSTRACT
Nepal is ranked one of the most vulnerable country to
disasters in the world due to its topographical features, adverse geo climatic
conditions, environmental degradation, urbanization etc. Although everyone acknowledges
this fact, there still lacks a proper and well-coordinated disaster management
system which includes stages of mitigation, preparedness, relief, response and
recovery. Nepal Government along with coordination with different NGO and INGO
are working collaboratively to build an effective management system. But at
present the existing applications, tools and systems have not been enough to
address all issues of disaster management. Although Nepal has been able to
build a system effective for disaster preparedness through the involvement of
organizations like NSET, but the works on response, recovery and relief phase during
post disaster situation seems not enough. Since, the market and reach of mobile
phones to people is increasing day by day and mostly the popularity of
smartphones is very high and among all available smartphones in market, Android
has been the long leading smartphones in the market, the use of android
smartphones would be an effective medium of communication, sharing information
and sending and receiving alerts in a disaster scenario. The android’s
penetration to users is increasing so rapidly that it could be a quick
information sharing tool. Realizing the essence and usefulness of android to be
used in the disaster management system seems to be an effective tool, an
android application named D-Fencing was developed. This app was developed using
Android SDK with ADT plugin in eclipse IDE. Bluestack App player was used to
test the application and PostgreSQL was used for database management. The users
of android app can be benefited by being able to receive alerts and
notifications via their application notifications on their mobile screen based
on the location of the device (which consequently is their location if they are
carrying it),and given that their location is within or inside a defined
geofence. A geofence here in the app is a virtual perimeter- a virtually fenced
off geographic location of a circular shape with fixed radius and center
coordinates in latitude and longitudes in WGS coordinate system defined by the
system administrator who can be admin of the disaster management system. The
geofence defined by the admin also contains name and the message for the
geofence that the users entering into that virtual geofence are expected to
receive as notifications in their smartphones.
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