‘Internet of Things’ Applications in Disaster Management

Abstract

The present paper on the technology of ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) relates the emerging new technology of IoT to artificial intelligence and the government’s political economy of disaster management. While it’s a technology for the future and governments are rushing to invest in its expansion, it is not without challenges. Many cities across the world have slowly and on a limited scale experimented on its implantation. Overall, machine learning models can do anything as long as one feeds them the data. The author tries to answer the perplexing questions: Is it so difficult to predict every natural disaster across the globe when 66.6% According to GSMA real-time intelligence data, there are now over 5.15 Billion people with mobile devices worldwide. This means that 66.60% of the world’s population have a mobile device (cell phone-, tablet- or cellular-enabled IoT devices). https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/how-many-phones-are-in-the-world, accessed 30th October 2019) of the world’s population carries a cell phone- or tablet- or cellular-enabled IoT device? Why in spite of the availability of such sophisticated voice-controlled technical solutions do we not think of all such Alexa skills during a disaster? Let’s find answers!