Enabling Electronic System for Emergency Alerts

Abstract

Institutions of Higher Education of Ecuador for its intrinsic characteristics remain to face adverse trends anthropic events such as work accidents. Also, the location of the state in the Ring of Fire substantiates the existence of natural hazards such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. The management of these adverse events is done by precept, methods and resolutions previously planned; generating the tendency to confront disasters when managing identified risks is inadequate. The risks are directly influenced by the product of threats and vulnerabilities. The threat is the possibility of occurrence of an adverse event and vulnerability is a sensitive factor of a system exposed to a threat that has low resilience. Threats can only be detected, but not removed unlike the vulnerabilities, the threat detection and vulnerability reduction decrease risks in order to avoid disasters. The Huachi, Querochaca and Ingahurco campus, belong to the Technical University of Ambato, do not have an adequate system to inform the university community the need for evacuation to the occurrence of adverse events (fires, volcanic eruptions), turning this into a detected vulnerability. This project designed an electronic acoustic signaling system integrating the three campuses through a communications system. The purpose is to report immediately alert conditions for staff risk management protocols run evacuation drills and preventive actions. The system monitors and alerts locally or remotely, using a client-server architecture with Internet devices of things and Web Application Server using WebSockets.