Emergency Response Breakout Group

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Emergency Response Breakout Group
Prof. Steven Glaser (glaser_at_ce.berkeley.edu)
Participants
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• Emergencies to Monitor the list can become
  endless
• Environmental and Physical parameters
• Scaling issues for all varieties of sensed data
  and
• scenarios
• Integration of models and sensing for
  prognostication
• Multi-use dynamically adaptive sensor networks

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particular, detailed, code-driven
approach vs. providing an information
technology framework adaptable to a wide variety
of future applications - scalable, distributed,
adaptive, reprogramable
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• "Non-Engineering" Issues
• Social impacts of better information
• Delivery of knowledge to humans in real time
• Social impacts of false positive/false negative
• prognostication
• Is there a level of knowledge above which more is
• actually a hindrance?
• Social issues surrounding immediate evacuation
• Privacy issues grow out of the inherent multi-use
  of
• sensor base

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ROBUSTNESS
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• Distributed Processing Issues
• The new power we have is from the local,
  ubiquitous, self-assembling, etc. sensor/MCU
  network
• Can't possibly get all the data recorded out of
  the system
• (bandwidth issues)
• perform inverse models locally among Motes -
  where is value added
• compared to investment
• sliding levels of data abstraction - compression
  and coding
• downloading of local, detailed data vs. local
  decision-making
• solution techniques are robust w.r.t loss of
  network elements
• reduction of information detail can be tailored
  to a particular task
• a wide variety of inverse problems can be mapped
  to simpler
• searches over sensor space
• the model instructs the Mote assemblage to
  re-configure in order
• to vary characterization granularity
  (self-scaling)

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Current Projects

• Shake table test of 3-story wood-frame building
• at Richmond Field Station (PEER/CUREe)
• Dynamic testing of drilled shaft (Underhill lot)
• "Liquefaction by Explosives" test of Quay wall
  and
• ground improvements (Tokachi Port, Hokkaido)

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Proof of Concept Instrument the Golden Gate
Bridge!

• Have a prototype structural health monitoring
  system up and running within 2 years