Using Smartphones as an Instrument of Early Warning and Emergency Localization

This paper suggests using smartphones and community GPS application to make alerts more accurate and therefore positively influence the entire warning process. The paper is based on formerly published paper describing a Radio-HELP system. It summarizes existing methods and lists the advantages of proposed solution. The paper analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of each possible input, processing and output of the warning system.

• David Kubát

• e-Call
• warning
• information
• Radio-Help
• WAZE

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