SMRP: A MOBILE APPLICATION FOR EARTHQUAKE PERSONAL RISK ALARMS

Digital technologies come across almost all aspects of daily life of institutions, communities and individuals. The uncountable applications range from entertainment to medical assistance or life preserving equipment. This scope touches a field that has been calling the attention of industry, government and academia: natural disasters and risk recovery. Due to the challenging nature of natural disasters, they are a multidisciplinary challenging area that requires the use of a full range of technologies and scientific studies for data analytics in the interest of decision-making at different levels of responsibility for the sake of avoiding human and material damage and mitigation of such events. We present a mobile application called Semáforo Móvil de Riesgo Personal (SMRP) focused on framing individuals accordingly to their own features during a disastrous event, taking earthquakes as a case of study. The system is unique in its type as it considers three elements for situating people within the context of the seismic situation, i.e. risk, vulnerability and personal features, using a traffic light-based alerting system with one of three colors (green, red, and yellow), and a set of suitable voice-based recommendations to help users to reach safety conditions. The traffic light-based alert proposed in this work estimates a metric called Personal Risk Index as a personalized calculation to assess the degree of risk in a given situation. Such index enriches the official information of official seismic systems by considering user physiological, sensory and geographical conditions. All that configures a cutting edge alerting system.