Natarajan Meghanathan et al. (Eds) : NETCOM, NCS, WiMoNe, GRAPH-HOC, SPM, CSEIT - 2016
pp. 161– 177, 2016. © CS & IT-CSCP 2016 DOI : 10.5121/csit.2016.61514
Elmer Figuracion, Thelma Palaoag, Dennis Ignacio and Mary Jane
Doblon
College of Information Technology and Computer Science, University of the
Cordilleras, Baguio City, Philippines, 2600
ecfiguracion@yahoo.com
tpalaoag@gmail.com
denzignacio@yahoo.com
jhainedoblon@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT
Resilient public alert and warning tools are essential to save lives and protect property during
times of national, regional, and local emergencies. Nowadays, immediate emergency alerts
became one of the priority in both national and local government. The Provincial Government
of Albay is geared towards becoming the most liveable province of the Philippines, which means
that it would be known for good education, good healthcare and good environment where
people are healthy, happy, employed and lives to their full potential. To achieve this goal,
disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation must be anchored well so as to move to
its destination of shared socioeconomic advancement. Supporting this vision, this study focuses
on the design and development of a mobile based Albay Emergency Reporting and Response
Tool (ALERRT). It is a mobile based resilient form of emergency alert notification that aids the
concerned citizens of any emergencies, accidents and concerns that require immediate response
from the government sector concerned.
In order to materialize this project, Featured-driven (FDD) methodology was used. Likewise,
opinions from different strata of society were solicited along the areas on social awareness,
readiness to respond and willingness to use a mobile application to report an incident or
emergencies. With 92.5% of the respondent who is willing to report an incidents or
emergencies, this application paved way to a better agency response and levering the people to
use IT solutions to become resilient in times of emergencies. It can be used to report on
emergencies ranging from fires to typhoon-related incidents, vehicular accidents with
casualties, health-related concerns (e.g. unidentified person suffering from heart attack),
community related incidents & concerns, and any other occurrences which requires immediate
and concrete response from the concerned agencies. Having such resilient form of emergency
alert notification like ALERRT is deemed necessary for a disaster prone places like Albay.
KEYWORDS
Emergency response, Disaster management, Incident report, Incident mapping, Mobile
Application
1. INTRODUCTION
All throughout the year, there could never be a chance that we could be spared from any disasters
or occurrences like floods and storms which are the most frequently occurring hazards. Aside