veyepar: Serval Maps - Building Collaborative Infrastructure Independent Maps on Mobile Devices

Author(s):	Romana Challans,Paul Gardner-Stephen
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The Serval Project is focused on the development of open source software that uses mobile devices to create a resilient mesh network. The mesh network is designed to provide and support communication services without any reliance on existing telecommunications infrastructure. Such infrastructure can be integrated into the overall network where required.

The lack of existing telecommunications infrastructure may be due to it being damaged during or disaster or emergency event, or where there are no economic incentives for telecommunications companies to put the infrastructure in place. The focus of this presentation is on the use of the Serval Project software to support collaborative mapping activities.

A key component in managing an effective response to a disaster event is communication. Communication needs to be achieved between individual team members, between the teams and the management hierarchy and between organisations responding to the event.

To improve the effectiveness of this communication an understanding of the geographic layout of the disaster event is required. This includes such factors as where individuals and teams are located, where incidents are occurring and where response infrastructure is located. It is this component that is the focus of the Serval Maps project.

The Serval Maps project uses the Serval resilient mesh network to support collaborative infrastructure independent mapping. Users of the application can see on the map their own location, the location of other network peers, and the location of incidents reported by users of the network.

By working collaboratively it is anticipated response personnel can form a more informed understanding of what is happening and therefore formulate a more effective response. Individual team members improve their understanding of not only the events that are occurring around them, they are also able to pinpoint where their team members are. Those coordinating the response gain an overview of the disaster and response from the location of teams and the incidents that they add to the map.

For instance a team member can add an incident to the map indicating that a road is blocked by flood waters. A second team responsible for transporting equipment from one area to another can see the incident on the map and adjust their route accordingly. The command centre may send out additional teams to assist based on the severity of the situation.

This presentation will outline some of the challenges in developing a mapping application that must be infrastructure independent, the lessons learned in developing Android based application. Lastly future directions will be explored including some of the other opportunities of collaborative mapping on mobile devices.

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