Title :
Natural Disasters and Electric Infrastructure
Author_Institution :
Google
Abstract :
We´ve become extremely dependent on reliable electric power in our modern society. This dependence becomes starkly visible during extended power outages. Improved backup and recovery methods are needed to cope with this dependence. We also have a parallel dependence on communications with similar need for resilience and rapid recovery.
Keywords :
Disasters; Mobile communication; Power generation; Power outage; Renewable energy resources; Smart grids; backup power; communication; computers; electricity; mobiles; power generation; power outages; renewable power; smart grid;
Journal_Title :
Internet Computing, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIC.2011.154
