'Saving Precious Seconds'—A Novel Approach to Implementing a Low-Cost Earthquake Early Warning System with Node-Level Detection and Alert Generation

Autor: Raj Prasanna, Chanthujan Chandrakumar, Rasika Nandana, Caroline Holden, Amal Punchihewa, Julia S. Becker, Seokho Jeong, Nandika Liyanage, Danuka Ravishan, Rangana Sampath, Marion Lara Tan
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Informatics, Vol 9, Iss 1, p 25 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2227-9709
DOI: 10.3390/informatics9010025
Popis: This paper presents findings from ongoing research that explores the ability to use Micro-Electromechanical Systems (MEMS)-based technologies and various digital communication protocols for earthquake early warning (EEW). The paper proposes a step-by-step guide to developing a unique EEW network architecture driven by a Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)-based hole-punching technology consisting of MEMS-based, low-cost accelerometers hosted by the general public. In contrast with most centralised cloud-based approaches, a node-level decentralised data-processing is used to generate warnings with the support of a modified Propagation of Local Undamped Motion (PLUM)-based EEW algorithm. With several hypothetical earthquake scenarios, experiments were conducted to evaluate the system latencies of the proposed decentralised EEW architecture and its performance was compared with traditional centralised EEW architecture. The results from sixty simulations show that the SD-WAN-based hole-punching architecture supported by the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) creates the optimum alerting conditions. Furthermore, the results provide clear evidence to show that the decentralised EEW system architecture can outperform the centralised EEW architecture and can save valuable seconds when generating EEW, leading to a longer warning time for the end-user. This paper contributes to the EEW literature by proposing a novel EEW network architecture.
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