The Proceedings of The 4 th Annual International Conference Syiah Kuala University (AIC Unsyiah) 2014 In conjunction with The 9 th Annual International Workshop and Expo on Sumatran Tsunami Disaster and Recovery – AIWEST-DR 2014 October 22-24, 2014, Banda Aceh, Indonesia 28 DESIGN OF PROTOTYPE FOR ONLINE DISASTER MULTIMEDIA DATA TRANSMISSION BASED ON ANDROID ROSLIDAR*, YUDHA NURDIN, NASARUDDIN Electrical Engineering Department, Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh, Aceh, Indonesia *Email: roslidar@unsyiah.ac.id Abstract The development of information and communication technology application is growing rapidly. It has motivated the use of mobile devices for various social networking mobile services such as android based multimedia disaster information transmission. Disaster multimedia information is important for quick response and recovery phases of the disaster management. In previous work, an online disaster information system based on location (we called it ASIKonLBS) has been proposed. However, it was only providing the coordinate information of the disaster location by using short message service (SMS) gateway and global positioning system (GPS). In this paper, we propose the design of prototype for online disaster multimedia data transmission based on android. Such that, the ASIKonLBSv2 can provide not only the information of the location, but also the situation of the disaster area including news, picture, and video. The research method refers to a spiral model that begins with conceptual design, prototype development and evaluation. The result shows that the designed prototype can be implemented for online disaster multimedia data transmission (news, photo and video) using Android Developer Tools. Furthermore, the prototype can be installed in the android-based smartphone and map the disaster multimedia data onto the web of ASIKonLBS. Therefore, the proposed prototype is useful for the disaster agencies and practitioners in order to give the first aid for the victim in the disaster area. Keywords: multimedia data; disaster; online information; android; ASIKonLBS Introduction The disaster has hit Indonesia frequently during the past decade. This motivates people to improve the way in giving information about the disaster to push forward aid for the victim. Information about the disaster is needed in disaster management to organize the distribution of aid by the disaster bureau or volunteer. Disaster management can be defined as "The range of activities to maintain control over disaster and emergency and provide a framework to help those at risk, to avoid or recover from the impact of the disaster" 1 . Recently, there are many concepts and applications on disaster management have been proposed. In Ref. 2, Multimedia-Aided Information System is developed on Apple’s mobile operating system (iOS) and runs on iPad tablets. The application is limited to report evaluation of the disaster by local Emergency Management. Ref. 3 illustrates the applicability of a smartphone based development method for disaster information reporting and status transmission. Here, the smart phone operating system is pro android. A framework using smart phone based for disaster management and mitigation applying modern concept of ICT and included GIS at server side is presented in Ref. 1. This paper proposed android based disaster mitigation application and web application to store and visualize the information. Another paper that carried out a system for disaster management using android technology mobile is Ref. 4. Here, a system called MyDisasterDroid application determine the optimum route along different geographical locations that the volunteers and rescuers need to take in order to serve the most number of people and provide maximum coverage area in the shortest route calculation. Real time information will accelerate rescue especially with information of evacuation route. To provide real time information, an application of online disaster information system is designed. In the development of our previous work in Ref. 5, the prototype of online disaster information system (ASIKonLBS) to present location of the disaster. However, this paper proposes an application of multimedia data transmission related with the textual information, picture, and video describing the disaster. The application is designed and developed using the android develop tool based on the programming and coding in Refs. 6-8. This application enables people viewing the area of disaster and knowing detail news online. The system allows everyone in the disaster area to