LOW-COST & LOW-BANDWITH INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE - The Case of the Bull-Running

M. Belzunegui, Raul Ecay, Rafael Huarte, Jon Legarrea, D. Mayor, Alfredo Pina, E. Unzue

2010

Abstract

This paper describes one research line carried out by the Public University of Navarra in collaboration with the Spanish Red Cross with an interdisciplinary team of volunteers, students, technicians and lecturers whose main aim is to create low cost information systems, adaptive to irregular infrastructures and dispersed locations for emergency response purposes. The features of such systems require a consolidation of the information at several levels and some times among different organizations. They require as well other features like platform independence, low bandwidth information flow and feedback from the end users in order to optimize the process to acquire and display information. The final aim is to improve the data capture and the needed interpretation of such data in order to help within one Emergency response situation. One specific application has been implemented for the management of the incidences of the bull-running and has been used and tested during the “Fiestas of San Fermin” in Pamplona from the 7th to the 14th of July 2009.

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Belzunegui M., Ecay R., Huarte R., Legarrea J., Mayor D., Pina A. and Unzue E. (2010). LOW-COST & LOW-BANDWITH INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE - The Case of the Bull-Running . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010) ISBN 978-989-674-016-0, pages 432-435. DOI: 10.5220/0002739004320435


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@conference{healthinf10,
author={M. Belzunegui and Raul Ecay and Rafael Huarte and Jon Legarrea and D. Mayor and Alfredo Pina and E. Unzue},
title={LOW-COST & LOW-BANDWITH INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE - The Case of the Bull-Running},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={432-435},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002739004320435},
isbn={978-989-674-016-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Health Informatics - Volume 1: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2010)
TI - LOW-COST & LOW-BANDWITH INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE - The Case of the Bull-Running
SN - 978-989-674-016-0
AU - Belzunegui M.
AU - Ecay R.
AU - Huarte R.
AU - Legarrea J.
AU - Mayor D.
AU - Pina A.
AU - Unzue E.
PY - 2010
SP - 432
EP - 435
DO - 10.5220/0002739004320435