Experiences with RFID Technology to Manage Information during Natural Disasters

Information solutions to manage the assistance to people during natural disasters have been proposed in the literature and there is a recent proposal to handle various flooding scenarios. This paper describes a prototype based on RFID tag bracelet to manage information in an emergency shelter and food services provided to refugees. This emergency shelter is installed after occurring natural disasters (floods). First, refugees write on a RFID bracelet tag their ID (CURP), then different writing/reading are made according to services received at the emergency shelter, also food service delivery, control arrival/departure and delivery items of personal hygiene are stored in a database. We propose a partial solution to problems for controlling temporary shelters during an emergency situation, thereby improving the recording and accessing for existing aid programs offered by temporary shelters.