pervasive computing
for disaster response

[INVESTIGATORS]
julian bunn
The objective of this project (a collaboration between Caltech CS and CD3, and the University of California at Irvine) was to develop key components of community-based pervasive systems which will allow citizens to respond to disasters. From this work was born the The Community Seismic Network a collaboration between GPS, CS and CD3 that uses cloud computing to aggregate data from commodity sensors distributed to the public. Its primary goal is to measure ground shaking intensity during and following seismic events, and estimate damage to buildings and structures. The computing infrastructure includes sensor platforms, cloud SaaS (currently Google's App Engine), and analysis/archive software. As of November 2014, over 400 sensors have been deployed in the Pasadena and surrounding areas. Click for more details (including a live map showing event detections) . The CSN is funded by a grant from the Moore Foundation.
[SELECTED WORK]