High Fidelity Sensors, High Speed Data Transmission

& a 21st Century Fusion Center

in Seismic & Other Natural Disaster Alert Systems

Dr Ahmad Azlan

Consider the following Scenarios:(True Situations, untrue names/departments)

Disaster Event:

• Authorities stick one single sensor in one slope

• Sends sms every hour to JKR• Sensor senses Earth

movements

Solution:

Landslide Occurs at Bukit Cina, KL

Consider the following Scenarios:(True Situations, untrue names/departments)

Disaster Event:

• Detects Intruders using 8 Radar Installations, Each costing RM76M

Solution:

Illegal incursions occuring in Sabah

Consider the following Scenarios:(True Situations, untrue names/departments)

Disaster Event:

• Evacuate 566 Survivors from incoming Typhoon

• …Only to have themallperish in another catastrophe

Solution:

Tacloban, Philippines 2010

Consider the following Scenarios:(True Situations, untrue names/departments)

Disaster Event:

• Hires 60 Auxiliary guards, complete with overtime, EPF

• Taps each point every half an hour

• Relays all videos onto central command, requiring full alert constantly

Solution:

Perimeter Intrusion occurs at TPM

Each suffer from:

• Wrong Technologies used• Wrong Science used• Non-realtime communications• Insufficient Hazard layerings• Too much reliance on Human Resources

Let’s have a look at some of the technologies available for use

Advanced Sensors

Advanced Sensors

Advanced Sensors

Advanced Sensors

Communications Technologies

Communications Technologies

Realtime Alerts / Intelligent Cameras

Realtime Alerts / Intelligent Cameras

Comprehensive and Analytical Fusion Centers

Comprehensive and Analytical Fusion Centers

Comprehensive and Analytical Fusion Centers

Sensor Fidelities

100 Hz: Human Heartbeat. NORMAL DOMESTIC SENSORS

102 Hz: Perceivable Multimedia transitions. “REALTIME” SENSORS

10-4 Hz: Blood Plasmas in human body replenished

10-2 Hz: Human Blinking. NON REALTIME SENSORS

104 Hz: Limit of Human Audibility. HIGHEND GEIGER COUNTER SENSORS

10-3 Hz: Seismic Wave : from 20 Hz to 3x10-3 Hz)

109 Hz: Transition between 2 levels of the Cesium atom . BUBBLE CHAMBERS

10-7 Hz: Orbit of Earth round the Sun

1018 Hz: Rate of Current Flow in circuit

1021 Hz: Orbiting Electron

10-15 Hz: Milky Way Rotation (230million years)

101 Hz: Wood or Steel Drills. REALTIME SENSORS

Human-Related Catastrophes

Human-Related Crimes

Natural Calamities

Logger

C.O.R.E

Fusion Center

Logger

Encrypt

Logger

Indigenous Technologies:

Intrinsic Values

• “Sharing Resources”: No repetition /overlapping of systems• No recurrent costs. Not even electricity!

• Real-time data at tip of fingers

• Hide clutter and Information overflow

• Operated by one single person instead of having dedicated teams

• Can be tucked on director’s desktop (or even bedroom!)

• Supplements or Replaces huge Monitoring halls or Control Centers

• Anywhere, anytime Viewing (internet exists everywhere)

• Uses Slow, 2MBps line that

sometimes takes 6 minutes to

convey data

• Pays RM120Million per year for internet line.

• Uses ordinary cameras and dumb bitmapped maps

• No 3D functionalities

Uses minimum 500MBps line. Data sent in (1/60)th of a second.

No recurrent costs.

Uses Military-class cameras and fully-functional GIS maps

Realtime 3D of mapped areas

Theirs Ours

• No access to public Info system

• Just Displays Data, No Analysis

• Must be viewed in specially-constructed infrastructure

• Uses a team of officers to manage incoming info and crisis

• Tracking of Objects in 2D Maps

Interrupts public broadcast system in case of Crisis and sends warning messages

Uses Extrapolative Algorithms to analyze data in realtime.

Portable: Can be viewed anywhere.

Responses fully automated: no need human intervention

Tracking done in 3D.

Imported from foreign sources Homegrown Technology.Theirs Ours

Preserves Sovereignty/Confidentiality of Data

Prevents Currency Outflow

Cheaper. (425M !!)

Solves Maintenance Problem

Impetus for making nation a Techno-centric provider

• Proactive Monitoring and Surveillance with multiple user alerts for crime prevention

• User-friendly Apps with relatively no barrier to Entry

• Availability of front-end Apps to Tenant companies to do their own monitoring

• System is Highly Scalable to be deployed to various requirements of size and complexity (eg Cybercenters, Cybercities, Residential Neighbourhoods, Auxilliary Police, Technology Parks, Industrial Estates, Campuses etc)

Solution Characteristics

An Innovative Concept:

JKR

JAS

PDRM

JPS MACRES Bomba

Meteorologi JPA3 Veterinar

Maritim

UTK

Kem. Kesihatan

Jabatan Perdana MenteriCORE Command Hierarchy

• Elevated Highway Visualization – Pakistan• Scorpion Gunnery Trainer - Royal Brunei Armed Forces • Aircraft Identifier Demonstrator - Myanmar Army• RPG-7 Simulator – Tentera Darat Malaysia• Driving Simulators – UTM & UPM• Eagle 150B Simulator – Lima, Langkawi• Impeller Simulations – JPS, Kementerian Pertanian• Realtime KL in 3D – MDEC, Cyberjaya• Asset Monitoring using RFID – KUIS, Selangor