Hack natural disasters
summary
Describes a working low-cost emergency alert stack for France including FM‑RDS messages to interrupt car radios, a 4G pico‑cell demo of Cell Broadcast, cheap FM receivers embedded in smoke detectors, long-endurance drones, an RC bathymetric boat, ultrasonic river gauges, and aircraft-based Mozilla Location Service mapping. Presents field exercises since 2011 with 5–26 people, modeling H+34 minute tsunami scenarios for a 70,000‑person industrial zone to show these prototypes can deliver mass alerts when networks are degraded.
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chapters (21)
- 0:00Hugo to disaster prevention
- 3:22Caribou F Guadeloupe
- 5:05Tsunami challenges worldwide
- 7:12Smoke detector to FM alert
- 9:44Tactical bubble cell alerts
- 12:15Evacuation route importance
- 13:58Radio amateurs in crisis
- 17:54Radio skills for developers
- 18:35Air-sea crisis coordination
- 20:42Mapping radio networks
- 22:50Hotels tourists disaster prep
- 23:54Foot evacuation drones
- 25:37Maritime safety innovations
- 27:41Bathymetry RC boats
- 29:04Real-time maritime supervision
- 30:32Long-distance radio communication
- 31:58Surviving power internet loss
- 33:03Radio history in disasters
- 35:31GPS network stability
- 36:35French alert protocol lag
- 37:38Q&A
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