A Resilient Service for Survivor Identification in Large-Scale Disasters

It is almost impossible to prepare for the risks of a disaster which comes only once in 1000 years. However, the March 11, 2011, earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident in Japan taught us some serious lessons. During the time of the large-scale disaster we were unable to accomplish tasks we were not prepared for. In this paper we propose a resilient service for survivor identification, a service which tries to accomplish its purpose to withstand unexpected serious situations. The most important characteristics of our proposals are as follows; (1) The system should have a variety of means to accomplish its purpose in various situations. (2) The governance style of our system is not top-down but bottom-up and the prime decision makers are the people at the scene of the disaster. (3) Every provided means of our system share common data formats. (4) All collected data is stored and integrated into the united database Internet cloud service. (5) All collected data can be searched seamlessly in the cloud service. We have built a system called eOrneOruyo2´ as a reference implementation for our proposal.