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

SBIR 第二阶段：用于提供地理定位信息丰富的网络警报的紧急通知系统

• 批准号: 0924704
• 负责人: Hisham Kassab
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: MobiLaps
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0924704&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Emergency; Notification

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.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目将扩展该项目第一阶段的成功发现，以调查通过网络向人们提供紧急警报的创新紧急通知系统的技术可行性。 拟议的活动涉及推进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，它作为紧急通知渠道的吸引力，就像电视和广播一样，已经增长，特别是考虑到它提供详细和定制信息的潜力。建议的研究的目标是完成一个网络边缘应用程序，介绍了Web警报的Web用户，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）一个网络设备组件，托管一个网络边缘应用程序，将创新的HTTP处理算法应用于Web流量，以可控的方式引入警报，而不会不必要地干扰Web用户？的浏览;和2）集中控制组件。拟议工作的成果将有可能提高校园的紧急情况通知能力和效力，从而加强应急准备和反应工作，在危及生命的紧急情况下有可能挽救生命。长期计划是将产品的部署扩展到普通大众，从而将与紧急情况相关的社会效益扩展到普通大众。