Abstract:Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is a systematic approach to analyze potential disasters and reduce their occurrence rate and possible impact. The main DRR component is an Early Warning System (EWS), which is a distributed information system that is able to monitor the physical world and issue warnings if abnormal situations occur. EWSs that use Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies, so called IoT EWS, are suitable to realize (near) real-time data acquisition, risk detection and message brokering between data sou… Show more
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