Research Design

Research working groups

Within the digital economy priority, the partnership has a special interest focus on the topic area defined as "the capacity to innovate EEW applications using low-cost IoT based MS technologies"

Methodology

Environment


Relevance Cycle


Design Cycle


Rigor Cycle

Conceptual Architecture

Three vertical components:

  1. EQ seismograph data collection and EQ sensing using MS-IoT devices
  2. EQ information processing and EQ prediction for detecting true alarms, and
  3. Sharing (or disseminating) the EEWs and other relevant knowledge.

Each vertical component (A - C) has a:

  1. social (or organizational) structure,
  2. set of software applications for encoding and decoding SEED data and EQ prediction algorithms,
  3. hardware and equipment like DIY MS-IoTs, equipment for building a controlled simulation environment, communications equipment and
  4. the potential for communications networks such as 3G/4G/5G, WiFi, UHF, VHF, and HF. There is a natural ordering of interoperability between each of the vertical and lateral intersections

Investigations

1) Lateral interoperability - social or organizational structure for sharing DIY MS-IoT sensor data with GeoNet and the social and organizational structure required for establishing the policy and regulations for community-wide EEW dissemination

2) Vertical interoperability - earthquake information processing and earthquake prediction, the artefacts for the community to build capacity to implement the self-aligning and self-healing software on the self-acquired and installed hardware with a proposed connection to GeoNet through available communications.