ABSTRACT
“CSIR-SERC - under Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, Chennai unit, Tamil Nadu, India”, approached by the ‘Indian and German Red Cross’ and ‘KFW, Germany’ to provide an appropriate ‘design-solution’ for the ‘Cyclone Shelters’. CSIR-SERC-Chennai, designed a ‘Stilted and Aerodynamically shaped Cyclone-Shelter’ for use in ‘Orissa coast’ with specialized foundation and raised ground level to reduce the effects of storm-surge. All the existing ‘23 Cyclone-Shelters in Orissa’, are based on the ‘Design given by CSIR-SERC-Chennai’. The lives of nearly 46,000 people, who took refuge in these shelters, were saved during the Orissa-Super-Cyclone in 1999. At CSIR-SERC, Wind Engineering Lab, Disaster-Mitigation/Management has been one of the thrust areas of R&D over the past two decades and continuing with upgradation of techniques and technology. Recently “Cloud technology/Cloud Environment for Data-Acquisition/DataBase-generation” and “Data-Mining/Data-Mining-Algorithms towards “Data-Fabric/IaaS-Platform/HYBRID-CLOUD” has been proposed/adopted/ tested as a ‘FRAMEWORK’ for the PhD thesis work, towards ‘Cyclone-Disaster Mitigation/Management/DSS’, this paper is an extension of PhD thesis work. The Permanent/Emergency/Temporary Shelters for disasters can be converted as ‘Smart-Shelters’, by ‘Measuring-Devices’ with Cloud-Computing/ Data-Mining technologies. ‘Authenticated Decision-Makers’, from village nodal centres/ District headquarters/ state offices can view/ analyse/predict/follow the condition of the shelters and take ‘Quick Decisions’.
