The challenges of the Kesennuma Kizuna Project

Author

Ohba, Kohtaro ; Kojima, Keisuke ; Motomura, Yoichi ; Tanikawa, Tamio ; Nagami, Takuro ; Kajitani, Isamu ; Aso, Hirotomo ; Kobayashi, Yoshiyuki ; Nishimura, T. ; Nishida, Yoshiharu

Author_Institution

Intell. Sys. Inst., Tsukuba, Japan

fYear

2013

fDate

26-29 Aug. 2013

Firstpage

160

Lastpage

165

Abstract

After the Tohoku Earthquake at 11 March, 2011, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) launched a cross-discipline partnership project; “Kesennuma Kizuna Project”, in the disaster area Kesennuma, Miyagi Pref. We started new activities for implementing smart communities´ technologies, such as energy managements, robots´ life care technologies, monitoring systems, etc., to activate the human connections/relationships of trust with the organization; “smart life-care consortium” This research started with the question of how we could build and enrich the relationships of trust that would be the basis of partnerships. This paper briefly reviews the projects, shows some of the technological results, and make some discussions.

Keywords

disasters; earthquakes; emergency management; health and safety; AIST; Kesennuma Kizuna Project; Kesennuma disaster area; Miyagi Prefecture; National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology; Tohoku Earthquake; cross-discipline partnership project; human trust connections; human trust relationships; smart community technologies; smart life-care consortium; Cities and towns; Communities; Legged locomotion; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Robot sensing systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC), 2013 IEEE Region 10

Conference_Location

Sendai

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/R10-HTC.2013.6669034

Filename

6669034