The research project FloodEvac is an indian-german collaborative project for ensuring civil security in case of a large domestic flood. Therefore it is being researched how new and improved methods, techniques and technical tools can be used to reduce the consequences of large river floods. The whole research group concentrates on analysing the vulnerability of the transport infrastructure and building warning and evacuation systems.

In case of a flood the emergency responders need information about the affected areas as soon as possible. Monitoring the whole area via cameras and sensors is very costly and also not wanted. Nevertheless sensors are widely spread through mobile phones and smartphones. In the context of this subproject these sensors are used to create a controlled insight into the situation of the disaster area for the emergency responders. Therefore the main interest of the research project is to assign the sensor data of the disaster area to the situation. This could be, for example, to estimate the age structure of the population, to recognize an impending panic or to foresee the behaviour of a group.

01 January 2015 - 31 December 2017

• Universität der Bundeswehr München
• TU München
• Jacobs University Bremen
• University of Applied Sciences Mittweida
• University of Kaiserslautern
• FU Berlin
• Technisches Hilfswerk (THW)

• Amrita University
• Indian Institute of Technology Delhi