A Study on Improving Anti-disaster Ability of Local Communities by Information Captive Balloons

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Disaster information systems using a captive balloon named InfoBalloon have been developed for improving anti-disaster ability of local communities as a modern-day version of fire-watch towers. The oblate shape of the balloon and the free-pivoting wire-base unit both developed for InfoBalloon improve the stability in the air under the condition of window blowing. A bird-eye view system developed with a monitoring camera mounted on InfoBalloon presents visual information of surroundings to people in the disaster area. For practical use in disaster, application scenario and guideline for safety operations of InfoBalloon systems are prsetented.