Sunday, March 20, 2011
A one touch disaster alert app on your mobile
The University of Taiwan researchers have released a mobile application that alerts you on disasters. The application works by taking location data from a mobile phone's built-in global positioning system. With one touch it can send a request for help to emergency service phones as well as to family members, or whichever numbers the user programs in. It can transmit to any number of people of the location of users trapped in earthquake rubble or under mudslides.
It can also work during abductions or in any other critical situation that are impossible to escape without any help. The app transmits the latitude and longitude co-ordinates of people stranded in disaster areas.
Liang Chih-hsiung, assistant professor of multimedia and gaming development at Lunghwa University of Science and Technology said, "This project was my idea, Taiwan has experienced earthquakes and mudslides where we can't find people, with one touch, location data can get out, and maybe that would save your life. If you were crushed but still alive, someone can still find you."
The product went on sale in mobile application store after the massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan. Users can download Mobile Saviour for $2.99 in English, Chinese or Japanese. The sales of the app will go to the Japan victims either through Japan's foreign ministry or a Red Cross chapter. Money made from the app will be used to help the people of Japan
It can also work during abductions or in any other critical situation that are impossible to escape without any help. The app transmits the latitude and longitude co-ordinates of people stranded in disaster areas.
Liang Chih-hsiung, assistant professor of multimedia and gaming development at Lunghwa University of Science and Technology said, "This project was my idea, Taiwan has experienced earthquakes and mudslides where we can't find people, with one touch, location data can get out, and maybe that would save your life. If you were crushed but still alive, someone can still find you."
The product went on sale in mobile application store after the massive magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan. Users can download Mobile Saviour for $2.99 in English, Chinese or Japanese. The sales of the app will go to the Japan victims either through Japan's foreign ministry or a Red Cross chapter. Money made from the app will be used to help the people of Japan
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