The Building and Effect Analysis of Natural Disaster Relief Goods Automated System

Abstract

In Korea, natural disasters such as typhoons and floods occur frequently each year. Recently, however, due to climate change and other factors, the scale of damages from such natural disasters started to steadily increase. Our country existing relief goods management and distribution system, information is collected on the spot and then inputted into the National Disaster Management System (NDMS). Thus, the onsite work is duplicated in the office. Moreover, it takes much time to put the field information in order and the relief goods are managed manually, so the information cannot be shared in real time, which results in problems such as delays and duplicate payment of relief goods. To solve these problems, this research proposes the establishment of an information system for efficient management of relief goods based on U-IT. A mobile-based automated relief goods management system in which relief goods can be managed using a smartphone and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology was developed, and the effectiveness of the system was analyzed. The analysis showed that the developed system is expected to effectively reduce Korea's budget for relief administration by 950 million won a year.

Energy Efficient Approach in RFID Network

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