Team Invicta

We decided Medan in Indonesia would be the best option for a community that could be helped. This is because it is plagued with natural disasters, particularly earthquakes, the most recent measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, and due to Medan’s location it may be hit with even bigger earthquakes in the near future.Then, when researching a problem to solve, we found a study which noted that most deaths occur from buildings collapsing on top of civilians, particularly in developing areas such as Medan (where the infrastructure of the city is poor and buildings collapse easily). However, most of these deaths resulted from when people were stuck under rubble and did not get found for long periods of time, not from the force of the blow.

We realized that as there was no economical way to replace buildings so they didn't collapse, exisiting architechtural solutions couldn't be applied in Medan for the time being.

 

Therefore, we had to think of a short term solution which located people under rubble which is as follows:

An indestructible box would be placed on the top floor of buildings, so when the building collapsed, it would fall and ‘sense’ the earthquake, then send a radiowave out to the wristbands people wore.On receiving the transmission, the wristbands would switch on to full power and send a wave back to the box of their area,which would now have all the information of the user.Things like the identity and pulse of the user could all be included, and also the rough location of the person,told by which black box the user’s information came from,so which area the box was from.A helicopter would then fly over and pick up the radio waves from all the black boxes, and put everyone’s information onto a master computer .The Helicopter would then land, and serve as a base for search and rescue teams who could go out and  locate exactly the pre -identified people with homing devices.