1330 results about "Natural disaster" patented technology

The invention advantageously provides an alert system and method for geographic or natural disasters that utilize a telecommunications network for monitoring geographic data in disaster-prone areas and accordingly issuing warnings against potential disasters to people inside the monitored area. An alert system according to a preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a telecommunications service network, one or more wireless sensor modules and a control center. The telecommunications network according to this particular embodiment includes service coverage over the monitored areas. The wireless sensor modules are installed to selected locations inside monitored areas. Each of the sensor modules further comprises at least one sensor for collecting geographic or geodetic data and a wireless communications unit for sending collected geographic data to the control center via the telecommunications network. The control center then receives and processes the monitored geographic or geodetic data sent by the wireless sensor modules for further algorithmic analysis. The control center accordingly issues alerts for imminent geographic or natural disasters if the processing of the geographic or geodetic data produces adverse results.

The method and system of the present invention provides an improved technique for providing email to a wireless device during an outage. Email messages are redirected from the primary email system to a secondary email system during an outage such as, for example, a natural disaster. Email messages are accessible from the secondary email system through a wireless device. A notification message is sent to the user's wireless device alerting them that their email messages are available on the secondary email system through their wireless device. After the termination of the outage, email messages received during the outage are synchronized into the users standard email application.

Geographical redundancy and an efficient switchover process to redundant equipment (210) is achieved by separating active main equipment (220) and standby redundant equipment in different geographical locations so that failures can be avoided in the event of a natural disaster or other event that affects an entire building or region. In addition, partial switchover can be performed for components or functions that become inoperative to corresponding redundant components in the standby equipment. To provide further redundancy and prevent unneeded switchovers, status or heartbeat messages are transmitted between the active main equipment and standby redundant equipment over two different networks.

This invention describes a product that is used during emergency incidents where the location of people can be used to track who could have been involved in the incident for example Industrial Accidents, Extreme Weather, Natural Disasters, Terrorist Attacks etc. The service locates people using devices they carry with them typically their mobile phone (1). The people's locations are compared to the location and radius of the incident and the probability that they may have been involved in the incident is determined (possible or low probability). People are also automatically contacted by a verity of means for example SMS (2) to their mobile and asked to confirm their status. Their status is automatically updated and available to people who they have linked themselves to via the service.

Dissolvable oral tablets and mini-bars which contain healthful ingredients. The products contain a multitude of discrete, extruded sections containing different healthful ingredients. A wide variety of active ingredients includes oxygen enhancers, vitamins, enzymes, dehydrated foods, pycnogenols, food supplements, soy proteins, herbs, roots, and mints. The tablets and mini-bars may be prepared by extruding discrete sections and matrix, all containing active ingredients, cutting the resulting shape for the tablet and mini-bar, and coating with dehydrated food. The tablets and mini-bars may supply needed active ingredients following natural disasters or prior to surgery or may be taken for general use. The products may be contained in a thermal insulating wrapper having an inner piece, an outer piece, and a corrugated piece between the inner and outer pieces. The products may be stored in a thermally insulating luminous canteen container having a primary container having a removable cover and a plurality of secondary containers affixed to the outer wall of the primary container, which containers have removable attached covers. The container may be constructed of hypoallergenic thermoplastic rubber, and may contain a compass and a signaling mirror. These containers also hold water and first aid supplies. The canteen containers may be supplied to survivors of natural disasters or used for general utility.

The invention discloses a remote and rapid monitoring and alarming device and method for the displacement and the gesture of a sliding mass, and relates to a target monitoring technique. The method carries out remote automatic monitoring on the potential sliding mass in the earthquake and landslide disaster emergency rescue, and monitors the changes of the position and the gesture of the potential sliding mass, and once the changes reach or exceed the preset safety limit, the acousto-optic alarm is carried out to warn the field personnel to take safety measurements or depart from the danger area. The device has mature technique, lower cost, simple structure, low power consumption and higher accuracy, is convenient in operation, is convenient for outdoor monitoring, provides the insurance for natural disaster rescue, and generates enormous economic and social benefits.

The invention provides a system and a method for predicting the coal and gas outburst risk of a mine in real time, which relate to a system and a method for judging mine natural disaster of coal and gas outburst risk degree through combination of artificial intelligence and expert analysis. The system uses a microseismic signal for reflecting the ground stress intensity and the gas outburst quantity for reflecting the gas change as analysis parameters to be combined with the expert experience, and can improve the predicting accuracy of the coal and gas outburst risk to high than 90 percent. The system and the method are characterized in that the system mainly consists of a data collection module, a data transmission module, a real-time data tracking and analysis center and an integrated early warning module, wherein after the data collection module collects underground data, the data is transmitted to the real-time data tracking and analysis center through the data transmission modulefor calculation, analysis and reasoning, and the integrated early warning module gives the early warning when a reasoning result shows that the risk occurs. The invention is applicable to similar mines with the coal and gas outburst risk.

A combined statistical-deterministic approach to methods and systems for assessing risk associated with natural disasters, in particular, hurricane wind risk. One example of a method of predicting wind speed distribution within a predetermined distance from a point of interest includes steps of statistically synthesizing a large plurality of wind storm tracks that pass within a predetermined radius of the point of interest, running a deterministic simulation of wind intensity along each one of the large plurality of wind storm tracks to produce an output representative of wind speed distribution along each track, and using the output to estimate an overall wind speed probability distribution from a combination of the wind speed distributions along each track within the predetermined distance from the point of interest.

A method and multi-scale attention system for the detection of objects and temporal change regions by a spatiotemporal attention operator of an image sequence, which linearly aggregates temporal change filter with spatial saliency filter and includes an extractor of salient maxima, which selects consecutive salient maxima of the spatiotemporal operator to produce the locations of the objects of interest and the centers of temporal change regions. The concept of spatial local scale introduced into the system and method for its determination allows for a scale-adaptive integration of the temporal change with spatial saliency and effective detection of different in size and location objects of interest. Can be used for object and spatiotemporal change detection in monitoring pollution, natural disasters, weather conditions and environmental changes based on satellite remote sensing imagery from various sensors.

The invention relates to a method and system for improving reliability of emergency power supplies of a nuclear power plant. At least one path of high-capacity battery energy storage system (fixed energy storage system and / or movable energy storage system) is used to supplement or replace final emergency power supplies of a nuclear power plant. When all existing emergency power supplies of the nuclear power plant fail, the system is started to supply power for equipment in an emergency plant of the nuclear power plant so as to keep discharging waste heat of reactor cores and cooling spent fuel pools of the nuclear power plant, thus ensuring the safety of the nuclear power station. The method and system provided by the invention can be used for resisting against extreme weathers and avoiding common mode failure of the emergency power supplies in the extreme weathers, can strength the reliability of the emergency power supplies of the nuclear power plant and can at least reduce the melting probability of reactor cores by 21.6%, thereby improving the integral nuclear safety level of the nuclear power plant.

A system and method are shown which utilize a hybrid mechanical and evaporative air conditioning system to produce potable drinking while cooling an enclosure. The system operates on direct current, making it suitable for use in areas effected by natural disaster, power outage, or simply rural locations without access to electricity. The conditioning system includes both evaporative air conditioning and mechanical air conditioning functioning components to produce a water discharge. The system is operated to cool an enclosure. A portion of the water discharge is then drawn off and purified for use as drinking water.

A method of handling notification message transmission corresponding to a message content change for a network of a wireless natural disaster warning communication system includes modifying content of transmission information corresponding to the notification message transmission when content of a notification message is changed.

A wide-area emergency information management system includes a broadcasting entity (10) and delivers content to authorized receiver clients (20), such as PC's, laptops, wireless devices, etc. The specific content (26), which can include voice, text, video or any other information content related to a planned response to a given crisis or emergency such as enemy attack or natural disaster, is prepared in advance (28), tailored to the class of recipient receiver client and / or user (44), securely downloaded (32,36) and stored locally in a secure cache (21). In response to a small control file from a centralized emergency management authority, the receiver client system accesses the cache (21), decrypts the content (26), and delivers it to the end user.

In future large-scale Emergency Response / Management (ER / EM) to terrorism and natural disasters, sharing the so-called common operational picture amongst dynamic task groups provides immediate advantages. In an ER / EM scenario, dissemination of the right data to the right person at the right time has a direct benefit. Timely and bandwidth efficient dissemination of sensor and Command and Control data remains a challenge. For example, dynamically changing mobile teams, information-needs profiling, information routing based upon information needs (not on IP address) are all complex issues. Accordingly, a protocol, called dissemination mesh, for constructing and reconfiguring network paths for disseminating information from sources to sinks, a software architecture for multi-domain wireless network information dissemination in the context of emergency response (resting above existing MANET protocols), supports needs-based dissemination, node mobility, rapidly changing groups (information sinks) and sensor networks (sources) is provided. The protocol includes: exploitation of Semantic Web and collaborative agent technologies, novel subscription-based information dissemination, intelligent networked information intermediaries, smart dissemination mesh forming and management. Together these technologies provide information dissemination management in the wireless setting. Application realms other than ER / EM can also be supported.

The invention provides an urban multi-disaster risk loss evaluation system based on an open source system framework and a building spatial database. The urban multi-disaster risk loss evaluation system comprises an 1a) MAEviz open source framework development platform based on an Eclipse RCP frame, wherein the MAEviz open source framework development platform is used for extending a flood, wind damage and tsunami disaster loss evaluation module so as to realize multi-disaster urban risk loss evaluation; a 1b) disaster information module which is used for analysis of the risk and the dangerousness of flood, typhoon, earthquake and other natural disasters and evaluation of regional disaster-causing possibility; a 1c) spatial geographic information module which provides a common GIS function so as to realize construction of a localized urban disaster-affected body geographic information system property database; an 1d) urban disaster-affected body type classification and vulnerability analysis module which is used for establishing a building vulnerability module base of typical building structures under different disasters; and a 1e) disaster loss evaluation module which is used for damage prediction of disaster-affected body structures and damage loss evaluation of the disaster-affected bodies.

A method and system for locating a network device in an emergency situation. Current physical location information is obtained for a network device every time it registers on a network or moves to a new physical location. The current physical location is sent and received in an encrypted format to and from the network device. When the network device initiates an emergency message (e.g. 911, E911, NG911, text-to-911, 112, etc.) based on an emergency event (e.g., weather, crime, fire, natural disaster, medical, terrorist, military, etc.), the emergency message includes the encrypted current physical location information for the network device. The current physical location information is decrypted and the emergency message is immediately routed in real-time to an appropriate Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP). The appropriate PSAP is immediately notified in real-time so emergency responders (e.g., police, fire, medical, etc.) can be dispatched to the current physical location of the network device.

The present invention relates to water events modeling including flood, the number one natural disaster in the world. Specifically, the present invention generates models of water events consist of one or multiple outputs from various modeling processes. It also generates analytics of water events, and integrating the water models for machine and human-eyes consumption. Further, the present invention produces derivatives, tools, and informational services for various purposes, such as, flood risk assessment; flood determination; and insurance rating. The present invention is the process and systems of producing one or multiple models of water events and derivatives, based on various inputs. For modeling water events at a given location and in a timely fashion, the present invention prepares, aggregates, integrates, and maintains all relevant inputs in one system. The input data include various information, such as, water events' extent, flooded areas, flood plain, inundated areas, and measurement of water condition. The input datasets also include various other data, such as, terrain elevation data, land use land cover data, soil conductivity, water gauge measurements, and hydrologic regression equations for calculating flows. The inputs further include hydrologic modeling algorithms, hydraulic modeling algorithms, geospatial algorithms, and local or remote data of real-time water conditions acquired through machine services.

The invention discloses a method and a system for monitoring and early warning of natural disasters. The method includes that an information acquisition device acquires natural condition data and video monitoring data of each monitoring point in real time, and the natural condition data and video monitoring files obtained according to the video monitoring data are sent to an information processing system through an information transmission device; the information processing system respectively compares all the natural condition data to corresponding default disaster threshold values so as to judge whether natural disasters will happen at all the monitoring points; when a target monitoring point will have natural disasters, the information processing system indicates an early warning system to issue early warning information in preset site scope according to a preset early warning mode, and the target monitoring point is the monitoring point whose natural condition data arrives the corresponding default disaster threshold values. When one monitoring point will have natural disasters, the method and the system can achieve multistage emergency linkage and automatic early warning of the natural disasters, reduce construction cost, and are low in maintenance cost.

The invention discloses a corn planting and cultivating method. The corn planting and cultivating method includes the following steps of selecting a corn variety and conducting soil preparation before planting, arranging wide rows and narrow rows at intervals, sowing corn, completing sowing, pipe paving, film paving and soil covering through an air suction type precision seeder, and conducting field management in the seedling stage, the ear stage and the flower stage, wherein the width of each wide row ranges from 85cm to 95cm, the width of each narrow row ranges from 25cm to 35cm, a drip irrigation zone is paved in the middle of each narrow row. According to the corn planting and cultivating method, due to the fact that the method that the wide rows and the narrow rows are arranged at intervals is adopted, the number of drip lines which are used can be lowered. Modifiers are sprayed in the early period of the field management in the seedling stage to control the plant height and the ear position, and the defect that through a conventional planting method, the corn easily falls over due to the fact that the plant height is large and the ear position is high is overcome. Pesticide is sprayed through a self-propelled high-stalk crop boom sprayer in the middle and later period of management to control pests, the influences of natural disasters on corn growth are reduced, and the influences on productivity caused by a large number of European corn borers, cotton bollworms, aphids, leafhoppers and red spiders appearing after corn jointing are eliminated.

The invention provides an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) cluster combat system utilizing an ad-hoc network data chain. The UAV cluster combat system consists of subsystems, including a wireless ad-hoc network data chain, an optoelectronic pod, an UAV cluster, a ground command and control center and the like. The UAV cluster can independently construct an ad-hoc network data chain according to battlefield environment and cluster distribution situation, transmits information collected by the optoelectronic pod (including a laser range finger, a GPS / BD receiver, a high-definition CMOS camera and the like) to other UAV in the UAV cluster and the ground command and control center through the ad-hoc network data chain, and completes operations, such as target reconnaissance, bomb-dropping and striking, evaluation after striking, and the like, under remote control of the ground command and control center. The ad-hoc network data chain can optimize in real time according to battlefield environment change, is not damaged due to damage of a certain UAV, greatly expands the combat range and combat flexibility of the UAV cluster, and can greatly meet requirements of the modern battlefield. In addition, the system also has huge application prospect in the fields of natural disaster rescue, urban traffic management and the like.

The invention relates to a power grid wind damage early warning system based on micro-landform wind field distribution and typhoon superimposed effect, belonging to the field of prevention, reduction and control of natural disaster for a power grid. The power grid wind damage early warning system comprises a weather data acquisition sub-system, a wind damage and wind speed forecasting computer sub-system, a power grid early warning information processing computer sub-system, a power grid wind damage estimation processing computer sub-system and an information issuing sub-system, and each above sub-system is orderly in signal electrical connections. The power grid wind damage early warning system is capable of acquiring timed weather data of meteorological stations in a region covered by the power grid, performing standard pretreatment, then, establishing a gale statistical diagnosis model and a numerical model by means of theory modeling and numerical simulation, analyzing influence degree of the gale on main lines, iron towers and transformer substations, and issuing a related gale early warning information report based on related rules for gale early warning grades, wherein the related rules are specified by the Meteorological Office. And the power grid wind damage early warning system has the advantages of high precision, excellent accuracy, quick real-time response speed and the like, and can provide decision support for gale damage prevention and power grid planning.

The invention provides an agricultural drought monitoring method for multi-source remote sensing data. According to the method, the following most frequently used four categories of agricultural drought remote sensing monitoring indexes (including 16 indexes) are selected: crop canopy temperature change ( 4 indexes), crop form and vegetation greenness change (5 indexes), soil water change (3 indexes) and crop canopy water contents (4 indexes); a constructed comprehensive remote-sensing drought model is checked and corrected by standard potential evapotranspiration indexes SPEI of a monitoringsite of a research region and 20 cm soil moisture status data, and drought of a data acquiring region can be monitored and evaluated in a large range. By the method, agricultural drought can be continuously, dynamically, quantitatively and visually monitored, analyzed and researched on fine space scale, and decision support and information service are provided for prevention and reduction of natural disasters.

The present invention relates to a photovoltaic system which is expandable and collapsible according to the sensing of an illumination sensor, thereby maximizing space utilization; prevents the failure of a solar cell panel due to natural disasters such as strong winds, heavy rain and heavy snow, thereby significantly increasing the lifespan of the solar cell panel; allows a main box cover to be automatically closed and completely sealed when the solar cell panel is lowered after sunset, such that it is possible to easily accommodate and store the solar panel, and thus it is easy to remove, move and install the photovoltaic system when necessary; has an effect in which use efficiency can be further improved as an installation site may be changed and thus a place of use is not limited; accommodates all components in a main box, such that it is easy to repair and replace a part; and enables a user to easily maintain and manage the photovoltaic system remotely by automatic and manual operations via wireless communication.

The invention provides an ecological environment monitoring and supervising system. The system comprises an ecological environment monitoring network, an ecological environment monitoring law-enforcement platform and an ecological environment monitoring and supervising command and dispatch center, wherein the ecological environment monitoring network comprises a mineral resource anti-illegal mining monitoring module, an illegal water-intake automatic monitoring module, a surface water environment monitoring module, a soil environment monitoring data collection module, a forest resource anti-illegal-tree-felling anti-flame monitoring module, a natural disaster automatic monitoring module, an ecological environment protection mass prevention data reporting module, an environment monitoring data collection module, a universal unmanned aerial vehicle monitoring module and an intelligent law-enforcement bayonet blocking module; the ecological environment monitoring law-enforcement platformcomprises an ecological environment supervising law-enforcement module, a monitoring data analysis and prewarning management module, a river chief comprehensive management module, an ecological environment dynamic supervising module and an intelligent law-enforcement linking module; and the ecological environment monitoring cloud operation center module, a command and dispatch center module and anemergency command and dispatch system platform module.

An emergency lighting fixture mounted under a switch cover that protects an electrical switch button for turning on / off the indoor lights, with a lamp concealed inside the cover providing lighting to an indoor area during normal times as well as in emergency situations involving power failures caused by shutoff of electricity, fire, or natural disasters like earthquakes. A transparent window on the same surface adjacent to lamp transmits light from the lamp. A switch on the front surface of the cover turns the lamp on or off, and a control circuit is mounted inside the cover, with a charging unit, a power-failure sensing unit, an emergency sensing unit, and a control unit.

The invention relates to an imitative wild cultivation technique of gastrodia, comprising site selection, hollow opening, seed selection, fungus material spread, gastrodia seeds placing, three-grade armillaria mellea placing, humus soil covering and cultivation conducting. The technique results from field study and research, a large number of repeated experiments and explorations in the practice of cultivation by a plurality of years and can stabilize the yield of the gastrodia, particularly improve the quality of the gastrodia cultivation with good appearance and character, close to the wild state. In addition, taking full advantage of the superior natural environment, the technique reduces drop in production caused by bacteria invading, improves the capacity of the gastrodia to combat natural adversities, reduces cost by getting materials from local resources and makes up for the shortage of large field cultivation so as to resolve the land contention with the farmland, promoting the development of the special industry of underwood planting of the ecological agriculture.

The invention is a fiber communication network service route configuration method used in electric power. The services loaded on the electric power communication network are classified and sequenced based on priorities according to importance. The services are removed in order to carry out a work route path search. After the path search is successful, a path search is carried out towards the protection route in the protection manner set by the service. If the path search of the protection route is successful, then it is determined that the service is successfully routed. The invention is directed to the electrical network operation control service which has the highest priority grade and puts forward a specially-used protection route method against cable breaking risks. According to the invention, the electric power fiber network can satisfy the reliability bearing requirements from different electrical network services and the network resource utilization rate of the whole network is raised as well. The invention provides special protection towards A type services, the sustainable communication capacity of the electric power fiber communication network in great natural disasters is improved and the high availability of the important electrical network production control services loaded on the electric power communication network is ensured on occasions of cable breaking faults.

Method and system for supplying emergency power to nuclear power plant, wherein the method includes, providing accumulator battery system, connected to emergency bus, the accumulator battery system is monitored by online monitoring system; in case of power loss of electrical devices of the nuclear power plant, the online monitoring system starts the accumulator battery system to provide power supply to the electrical devices of the nuclear power plant via the emergency bus. The present application is adapt to the key technologies and battery management technologies of million kilowatt-class advanced pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant, facilitating to improve the safety of the nuclear power plant in case of serious natural disasters beyond design working conditions.

The invention discloses an emergency rescue decision making system aiming at natural disasters and a method thereof. A hardware platform comprises a disaster information data input terminal, a database, an application server, a client decision making terminal, a comprehensive natural-disaster knowledge management terminal, a consultation terminal and a printing terminal; a software platform comprises a disaster information acquisition module, an task intelligent analysis module, an emergency rescue decision making module, a decision making scheme consultation module, a decision making scheme output module, a data management module and a natural disaster knowledge management module. By utilizing the emergency rescue decision making system, after the disaster information is obtained, the intelligent analysis of the decision making task is carried out, decision making is carried out under the support of basic data and knowledge, synergetic consultation of experts can be carried out on the obtained feasible scheme, the decision making scheme is output and implemented, the effect of implementing the decision making scheme is evaluated, and the implemented scheme is successfully stored. In the emergency rescue decision making system, according to the whole process of natural disaster development, corresponding emergency rescue measures are given, decision making support is provided for emergency rescue of the government, and the loss caused by natural disasters is reduced.