SBIR Phase II: An Emergency Notification System for Delivering Geo-Targeted Information-Rich Web Alerts

该奖项由2009年美国复苏和再投资法案(公法111-5)资助。这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目将扩展项目第一阶段的成功发现，以调查创新的紧急情况通知系统的技术可行性，该系统通过网络向人们发送紧急警报。拟议的活动涉及提高网络边缘应用程序和HTTP流量处理领域的技术知识。随着网络拥有大量受众，并日益成为多媒体信息娱乐的来源，它作为紧急情况通知渠道的吸引力与电视和广播相同，特别是考虑到它提供详细和定制信息的潜力。拟议研究的目标是完成一个网络边缘应用程序，该应用程序向Web用户介绍Web警报，而不需要任何特殊的客户端软件安装或Web用户注册。这项工作将扩展第一阶段的工作，使两个关键系统组件在技术上成熟：1)网络家电组件，托管网络边缘应用程序，将创新的HTTP处理算法应用于网络流量，以受控的方式引入警报，而不会不必要地干扰网络用户-S浏览；2)集中控制组件。拟议努力的产品将有可能增强校园的紧急通知能力和有效性，这反过来又支持应急准备和响应努力，有可能在危及生命的紧急情况下拯救生命。长期计划是将该产品的部署扩大到普通公众，从而将与突发事件相关的社会利益扩大到普通公众。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will extend the successful findings of Phase I of the project to investigate the technical feasibility of an innovative emergency notification system that delivers emergency alerts to people over the web. The proposed activity involves advancing technical knowledge in the areas of network edge applications and HTTP traffic processing. With the web having a large audience and increasingly becoming a source of multimedia infotainment, its appeal as an emergency notification channel, in the same vein as TV and radio, has grown, especially given its potential for delivering detailed and customized information. The objective of the proposed research is to complete a network edge application that introduces web alerts to web-users, without requiring any special client-side software installation or web-user registration. The effort will extend the work performed in Phase I to technically mature two key system components: 1) a network appliance component hosting a network edge application that applies innovative HTTP processing algorithms to web traffic to introduce the alert in a controlled fashion and without unnecessarily disrupting the web-user?s browsing; and 2) a centralized control component. The product from the proposed effort will have the potential of enhancing the emergency notification capability and effectiveness at campuses, which in turn bolsters emergency preparedness and response efforts, potentially saving lives during life-threatening emergencies. The long-term plan is to extend the deployment of the product to the general public, thus extending the emergency-related societal benefit to the general public.