Role of communication engineering in disaster management

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Many lives are lost in earthquake specially in earthquake prone areas like japan and
Mexico the following method is useful for that areas although it can be deployed in
any areas but cost is justified when this type of earth quake are frequent .
Earthquake consists of two wave P wave and S wave although P waves come first,
and MEMS accelerometer of high sensitivity can detect that. S waves come next,
and they carry most of the energy and do most of the damage. So what we can do
is deploy a Bluetooth sensor with MEMS accelerometer sensor which in turn will send
continuous signal to light post near every 2 or 3 house whenever a earthquake is
detected the speaker connected to the Bluetooth and lamp will either start a pre
recorded message or a simple buzzer noise. Which will allow the citizen to know
about the danger.

How it would work

This instrument prototype can be made on Arduino with a simple accelerometer
(ADXL335) , transistor and resistance and speaker/buzz . speaker if we want to give
a message and buzzer if want a simple noise a soon as soon as there is change in
force accelerometer will give output as voltage which will let us know about the
danger and with simple Bluetooth we share this knowledge to every lamp outside
the house which will then start the message or a simple noise.