Research activities in emergency communications group

In this report, we introduce two major research themes in the Emergency Communications Group, They are: (1) Research and development of the emergency communications system which supports communication and information exchange for victims of the huge natural disasters. (2) Research and development of the information system for crisis management on the internet. The emergency communications system has been developing for more than 5 years and it is important to consider how to deploy the system. The research and development on information system for crisis management has just started since 1999. At this moment, we have started some experiments from last April. Both of these two themes are related both internet technology and crisis management. Our group think that these themes are very important for the internet research field and our daily life.