RESCUER TELECOMMUNICATION PACK (RESPACK) â A WIRELESS AD-HOC NETWORK BASED COMMUNICATION DEVICE FOR DISASTER MITIGATION
Indonesia is a meeting place for three tectonic plates and is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire region, making Indonesia often hit by natural disasters such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Natural disasters that occur often make telecommunications infrastructure damaged, making it difficult...
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| Format: | Final Project |
| Language: | Indonesia |
| Online Access: | https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/42378 |
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| Institution: | Institut Teknologi Bandung |
| Language: | Indonesia |
| Summary: | Indonesia is a meeting place for three tectonic plates and is located in the Pacific Ring of Fire region, making Indonesia often hit by natural disasters such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Natural disasters that occur often make telecommunications infrastructure damaged, making it difficult for rescue teams to evacuate victims of natural disasters. In the field, rescue teams rely on the Handy Talkie (HT) to communicate among rescue teams that are limited to voice communication with half-duplex communication mode. In addition, it will be difficult for a savior to describe a condition of the surrounding environment if only using sound without a photograph of the surroundings. The evacuation process is also less effective because it is not known which areas have been explored so it is very possible to re-assess an area. In this final project a device called Rescuer Telecommunication Pack (RESPACK) was developed to assist communication between rescue teams. RESPACK supports voice communication and can send images. In addition, the device is capable of recording locations that have been traced by rescue teams. RESPACK uses WiFi-based ad-hoc wireless technology. In the manufacturing process RESPACK is connected with GPS to obtain locations, audio ports for voice communication, and cameras for taking photo. RESPACK testing is done in two scenarios, namely single-hop and multi-hop. The coverage of single-hop RESPACK is able to reach a distance of 20 meters while multi-hop can reach a distance of 50 meters. Besides that RESPACK is able to be used for audio and image communication in single hop and multi hop. When used to transmit audio, RESPACK provides the worst jitter at a distance of 55 meters at 141.35 ms. Whereas when used to transmit RESPACK data it provides the best throughput of 568.1314 bps to a distance of five meters. |
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