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Tethered Balloon Technology in Design Solutions for Rescue and Relief Team Emergency Communication Services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2018

Saeed Hamood Alsamhi ,
Mohd. Samar Ansari ,
Ou Ma ,
Faris Almalki  and
Sachin Kumar Gupta
Saeed Hamood Alsamhi*
Affiliation:
Aerospace School, Tsinghua University, China; AMU, India and IBB University, Yemen
Mohd. Samar Ansari
Affiliation:
Electronics Engineering, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Ou Ma
Affiliation:
College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Faris Almalki
Affiliation:
Electronics Engineering, Taif University, Taif, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Sachin Kumar Gupta
Affiliation:
and Electronics and Communication Engineering, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, India
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Saeed Hamood Alsamhi, Aerospace School and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China and IBB University, Yemen (e-mail: salsamhi@tsinghua.edu.cn).
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Abstract

The actions taken at the initial times of a disaster are critical. Catastrophe occurs because of terrorist acts or natural hazards which have the potential to disrupt the infrastructure of wireless communication networks. Therefore, essential emergency functions such as search, rescue, and recovery operations during a catastrophic event will be disabled. We propose tethered balloon technology to provide efficient emergency communication services and reduce casualty mortality and morbidity for disaster recovery. The tethered balloon is an actively developed research area and a simple solution to support the performance, facilities, and services of emergency medical communication. The most critical requirement for rescue and relief teams is having a higher quality of communication services which enables them to save people’s lives. Using our proposed technology, it has been reported that the performance of rescue and relief teams significantly improved. OPNET Modeler 14.5 is used for a network simulated with the help of ad hoc tools (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2019;13:203–210).

Keywords

ad hoc, disasteremergency communicationOPNETrescue and relief teamtethered balloon
Type
Original Research
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , April 2019 , pp. 203 - 210
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2018 

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