DEWN

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DEWN Disaster and Emergency Warning Network
A Collaborative initiative by Microimage (Pvt)
Ltd, The University of Moratuwa and Dialog
Telekom PLC Sri Lanka
Michael de Soyza (Senior Manager Corporate
Responsibility and Public Policy) Dialog Telekom
PLC, Sri Lanka GK3 Conference, KLCC, 11th
December 2007, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Contents

• Origins Can GSM play a role?
• Design Philosophy
• What is DEWN?
• Technologies employed
• Mechanics how does it work?
• Pilot Proof of Concept
• Improvements based on pilot projects
• New challenges and the way forward

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Can GSM play a role?

• Could GSM fill that critical need for an
  intelligent but ubiquitous delivery mechanism for
  national disaster warning?
• GSM in Sri Lanka
• Reaching over 6 MN Sri Lankans
• Ubiquitous in terms of availability
• Affordable to all segments of society
• Messaging capabilities unmatched by any other

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The answer was clearly yes!

• In January 2005
• Dialog Telekom PLC, Microimage and the
  University of Moratuwa initiated an RD programme
  as one of its long term efforts towards Nation
  rebuilding

Key Research Engineers of DEWN University of
Moratuwa, and Microimage officials
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DEWN Design Philosophy

• Effective in warning citizens at day or night
• Immune to communication network congestion
• Comprehensible in terms of local dialect
• Directed to person or location or equally
  applicable to mass dissemination
• The solution needed to be also
• Affordable
• Accessible
• Familiar
• Reliable
• Validate authenticity

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What is DEWN?

• DEWN is an integrated disaster and emergency
  warning network that incorporates network based
  as well as device based technologies to deliver
  an end to end disaster solution through the
  centrally configurable carriage and dissemination
  of alerts

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Technologies Employed
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Technologies Employed
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Mechanics How does it work?
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Mechanics How does it work?
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Mechanics How does it work?
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Mechanics How does it work?
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Mechanics How does it work?
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Mechanics How does it work?
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Mechanics How does it work?
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Mechanics How does it work?
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Mechanics How does it work?
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Mechanics How does it work?
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Mechanics How does it work?
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Mechanics How does it work?
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Pilot Proof of Concept

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Pilot Proof of Concept
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Pilot Proof of Concept
Workshop for DMC Emergency Operations Centre
staff Training on the DEWN Alerting Interface
Last-Mile HazInfo Project DEWN undergoing testing
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Improvements based on pilot

• Modified DEWN system to be compliant with CAP,
  the international alerting protocol.
• Incorporated Cell Broadcasting (CB) message
  capability
• Improved DEWN alarm system (addition of radio
  tuner, and upgrading of components)

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Challenges Addressed
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New Challenges and Way Forward

• Capacity, Capacity, Capacity
• Motivation and staying the course
• Building on Partnerships
• Innovation
• Currently planning for national Implementation is
  in Progress

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New Challenges and Way Forward
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New Challenges and Way Forward
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New Challenges and Way Forward
Thank you