Bridge Disaster Monitoring & Alert System

Sensors and Bridge Monitoring System

Rapid developments of structural sensing and control, data acquisition and processing, and computer technologies have made it feasible to monitor the structural health of large-scale structures in real time. SHM of large-scale infrastructures has increasingly attracted extensive interests from both fields of research and application. Based on recent research achievements of developing smart SHM...

Toward Next Generation Global Disaster Alert Coordination System

Global Disaster Alert Coordination System (GDACS) is a cooperation framework of the United Nations, the European Commission and disaster managers around the world, aiming to exchange disaster information and coordinate relief in the first phase of a disaster’s aftermath. As for a subject for analyzing information architecture, GDACS is quite an interesting system to analyze because it has vario...

Alert based disaster notification and resource allocation

When a disaster occurs, timely actions in response to urgent requests conveyed by critical messages (known as alerts) constitute a vital key to effectiveness. These actions include notifying potentially affected parties so that they can take precautionary measures, gathering additional information, and requesting remedial actions and resource allocation. However, there are different types of di...

TheTay Rail Bridge disaster revisited

Detection of bacteraemia by the continuously monitoring BacT/Alert system.

AIMS To analyse a continuously monitoring blood culture system with respect to the time to detection of various groups of organisms, their clinical importance, and the relative efficacy of the aerobic and anaerobic bottles. METHODS Four thousand blood cultures were monitored and the information relating to the positive cultures was noted and analysed. RESULTS Four hundred and seventy seven ...