The American Global Positioning System (GPS) is widely used today. However, this satellite does not indicate accurate locations for the Japanese. Last September, Japan's launched its first location-based satellite, which is called the Quasi-Zenith Satellite (QZS). Since QZS makes rounds above the Japanese islands, it provides a location service even to those who are in an urban canyon or deep in a mountainous region. On the other hand, IMES technology can provide an indoor location-based service. If these location-based services are combined, the resulting system can save people's lives or make them more secure. ALPS Group3 designed the new Safety Security system, which directs victims of a natural disaster to a safe place by using QZS, GPS and IMES.
NTT DATA CORPORATION started to develop this Disaster Countermeasure System using QZS. This project is called "Red Rescue" (Real‐time Disaster Response using Small ‐ Capacity Data from the Universe). ALPS Group3 also developed this system by using the ALPS tool method.
One of the biggest advantages of this system is that users get the disaster information in real time. The Real-Time idea came from system robustness through the location-based information. We interviewed the people in charge of disaster control in the local government. As a result, Group3 understood that local governments obtain the latest information from their own connections, but they do not know how to share the information with all stakeholders like victims, police, and rescue teams, so there is no unified system in an emergency. A user who needs the latest information has to find his or her own connection to carry out a mission. From its research, Group3 understood that a new system needs the information integration tool, which corrects the hazard map and delivers the latest disaster news to one place, so that all stakeholders can utilize the disaster information anywhere and anytime. We called the solution an Integration Platform., and we confirmed that its development can best be accomplished by using Engineering Matrix, QFD I and II, and Cost/Worth Analysis. The Integration Platform defines the common specifications needed to manage the information, so that a user can use or see the information without having any special knowledge.
From this system, a user can get real-time disaster information with a combination of current locations. The system also provides a structure for decision making. This is Red Rescue's strength.
This report contains an analysis of the project's present state and information about the design of the integration platform and the development of a prototype and system design validation. As our ALPS project, Group3 propose the present state report and interview result. Group3 designed the integration platform's required functions. The system business plan was initially so high in cost that no investment returns would be realized until the third year after starting system. Since QZS can send short messages to many devices, the system can provide emergency escape information to a specific user. There is a possibility that the system can be broadened in the future.
This document explains the solutions provided by the Red Rescue system. Each ALPS method follows our idea's availability and possibility. And we tried to develop one of the parts in system.
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