LORA (Long Range) Based Low Power Emergency Tracking System in Disaster Areas

Abstract

The communication network is one of the major assistances for disaster management purposes. At each disaster phase, the information flow between the disaster management departments and the population is critical, as it destroys the whole communication infrastructure where the base station to Mobile Switching Centre (MSC) connectivity is broken, power generators are exhausted, and the network may suffer from congestion. Even when radio equipment works, police officers, rescue teams, medical teams cannot communicate with each other because of incompatible radios. To analyze the characteristics of the geological environment in the disaster region and to alert the Disaster Management Department, this solution based on LoRa has been proposed. The penultimate goal of this paper is to fasten the rescue operations.