On-site early-warning system for Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)

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Dino Bindi
Tobias Boxberger
Sagynbek Orunbaev
Marco Pilz
Jacek Stankiewicz
Massimiliano Pittore
Iunio Iervolino
Enrico Ellguth
Stefano Parolai

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In this work, the development of an on-site early warning system for Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) is outlined. Several low cost sensors equipped with MEMS accelerometers are installed in eight buildings distributed within the urban area. The different sensing units communicate each other via wireless links and the seismic data are streamed in real-time to the data center using internet. Since each single sensing unit has computing capabilities, software for data processing can be installed to perform decentralized actions. In particular, each sensing unit can perform event detection task and run software for on-site early warning. If a description for the vulnerability of the building is uploaded in the sensing unit, this piece of information can be exploited to introduce the expected probability of damage in the early-warning protocol customized for a specific structure.

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Bindi, D., Boxberger, T., Orunbaev, S., Pilz, M., Stankiewicz, J., Pittore, M., Iervolino, I., Ellguth, E. and Parolai, S. (2015) “On-site early-warning system for Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan)”, Annals of Geophysics, 58(1). doi: 10.4401/ag-6664.
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