Development of Crowd Sourcing Data Feeder for the

People In Needs During the Disaster Event Through the

Telegram BOT API Integrated With the Tuxgeo+

Backend Geo-spatial and Non Geo-spatial Database

Presented by:

Dr Mohd Ashraf Mohd Ismail (USM)

In collaboration with:

Funded by:

Skim Geran Penyelidikan Pengurusan Bencana Banjir 2015

People In Needs : Vulnerable people including the disabled people, elderly,

pregnant women, children, people with medical conditions.

Telegram BOT API : free cross, cloud based –platform messaging apps

(messages can be sent and accessed from multiple devices).

Tuxgeo+ Backend : Cloud based map

visualization platform that can be accessed

via web and mobile

Geospatial Database: the data or information

that identifies the geographic location of

features and boundaries.

Non-geospatial Database : the data or

information that not consider the geographic

location such as socio-demographic data

Important Keywords:

Mobility of the Person

(Ability to move independently;

ability to do basic daily needs;

pregnant lady)

Health conditions of the person

(Dependency on medication, health

equipment's etc)

People in Needs

Disabilities (OKU)

Overview of Kelantan Flood 2014/2015

PRIORITIZING IN EVACUATION AND

HUMANITARIAN AID

SPECIAL NEEDS GROUPS/

VULNERABLE POPULATION

Preparation of list: People Requiring Support

During Disaster Interview sessions with the government agencies throughout Kelantan State:

District Government

Agency Outcomes

Kota Bharu

Majlis

Keselamatan

Negara (MKN);

BOMBA; Jabatan

Pertahanan

Awam (JPAM);

UPEN, Kelantan

Among all the government agencies

interviewed throughout Kelantan, 100% of

the agencies had not prepared the list of

people requiring support during disaster

although some of them had an intention to

do so:

The following reasons are stated:

i. Still in planning stage and not yet

decided the definition/category people

requiring support

ii. Ketua kampung/Penggawa understand

who needs support in their respective

area therefore no such a list is needed

to be prepared by the government

agencies.

Pasir Mas

Tumpat

Bachok

Pasir Puteh

Tanah Merah

Kuala Krai

Machang

Gua Musang

Jeli

Preparation of list: People Requiring

Support During Disaster Interview sessions with the government agencies throughout Kelantan State:

Consequences of the Outcomes

Evacuation Planning and Process

i. No proper planning of evacuation activities for people requiring support in

general

ii. No individual evacuation plan could be prepared

iii. No effective evacuation support training was provided

iv. In case Ketua Kampung/Penggawa prepared a list of only people whom they

can figure out, some people requiring support may be excluded from

evacuation process because the list is not distributed to the relevance agencies

(e.g BOMBA)

Shelter and Disaster Relief Center

i. No facilities (e.g. barrier free living environments) provided for the people

requiring support

ii. Do not provide comfortable environments for people requiring support and

elderly people

iii. Capacity to accept large number of people requiring support

iv. Nursing care for people requiring support

18.60%

81.40%

Family members who have health problems or special needs

yes no

Results of Questionnaire Survey

3.84%

2.60%

1.25%

2.23%

20.82%

2.95%

7.15%

4.02% 1.25%

9.74%

26.63%

6.88%

5.63%

2.50%

1.70%

0.80%

Types of health problems or special needs - Using a wheelchair to get around

- Have Dialysis

- Have Alzheimer

- Have a Mental Illness

- Have Diabetes (Insulin dependent)

- Requires oxygen

- Chronic health conditions

- Have vision or hearing impaired

- Requires a medical device that useselectricity- Persons with disabilities

- Group of elderly

- Pregnant women

- Have asthma

Results of Questionnaire Survey

27.30%

72.70%

Registration of individuals with health problems or special needs with responsible agencies

- yes

- no

Results of Questionnaire Survey

Disaster Risk Management Cycle

Human

Diversity

Factors:

Disaster

Response and

evacuation

FRGS Banjir September 2015

Peringkat Kampung (Penduduk)

Peringkat Mukim (Penghulu/Ketua Kampung)

Peringkat Daerah (Penggawa)

Peringkat Jajahan (Ketua Jajahan)

Peringkat Negeri (Menteri Besar/SUK)

Our Resources: Government Agencies, NGOs etc

July every Year

(JPBN)

August every Year

(JBPD)

September every

Year

October every Year

October every Year

Disaster Preparedness Level at State

Level Schedule of Coordination

Meeting

Increased the capacity/awareness of the people Source: Majlis

Keselamatan Negara,

Negeri Kelantan FRGS Banjir September 2015

Personal information of

people in needs

Send

location Risk level

and EC

Health and

mobility

Conditions

Snapshot of

the house

Snapshot of the house

R1

R2

R3

R4

R5

D1

HD1

TR3

ETC

Name

IC No.

Gender

Contact no.

Information of individual in needs / requiring

supports

Category Sub – category

Disability in

Hearing

Left ear hearing impairment; Right ear hearing impairment; Both ears hearing impairment; Left ear hearing loss; Right ear hearing loss; Both ears hearing loss

Disability in

visual/vision

Right eye blindness; Left eye blindness; Both eye blindness; Low vision/Partially Sighted

Physical

disability

Dwarf Left Hand Stump; Right hand stump; Both hands stump; Left Leg Stump; Right Leg Stump; Both Legs Stump; Paralysis; Spina Bifida; Muscular dystrophy; Cerebral palsy; Orthopedic Impairment

Learning

Disability

Slow-witted; Down syndrome; Intellectual impairment; Autism; Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD); Specific Learning Disorder (dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia); Global Development Delay

Speech or

language

impairment No sub category

Mental disability

Mood Disorder (depression/bipolar disorder) Organic Mental Disorder

Multiple disabilities

More than one category

Enhancement of the OKU sub categories

a. Heart Disease

b. Need medical Support from electrical equipment (such as Oxygen tanks)

c. Coma

d. AIDS

e. HIV positive

f. Chronic Respiratory Disease

g. Diabetic noninsulin dependent

h. Diabetic insulin dependent

i. Alzheimer

j. Chronic liver disease

k. Asthma

l. Chronic Kidney Disease Require Dialysis

m. Cancer Stage 1

n. Cancer Stage 2

o. Cancer Stage 3

p. Cancer Stage 4

q. Tuberculosis (TB)

r. Expectant mother (Expected delivery date)

s. Infant

Type of chronic disease(s) or special needs of

this person

Category Standard level of supports / needs required (Mobility

of the Person) Priority in evacuation

and sheltering

Level 1 The person can operate basic activities of daily living

almost independently and only require short term support

for the associated health conditions Low priority

Level 2 The person needs a low level of support for daily living

and cannot be left alone for long time. Required short to

middle term support for the associated health conditions

Low Intermediate

priority

Level 3

The person cannot stand up or walk firmly but can still

can go do their daily living almost independently.

Required short to middle term support for the associated

health conditions

Intermediate priority

Level 4

The person cannot stand up or walk without helps and

needs full support for toilet activities, bathing and

changing clothes Required middle to long term support

for the associated health conditions

High level priority

Level 5 The person activities for daily living is totally deteriorated

and needs full support for daily activities and needs long

term of support for the associated health conditions. Very high level priority

Development of Standard of Care Level for Malaysia

(Mobility of the person)

Category of Evacuation Center

EC1 Normal evacuation center with basic facilities

EC2 Evacuation center with barrier free living environment

EC3 Evacuation center with basic nursing care

EC4 Evacuation center with special medical support

EC5 Evacuation center with electricity for life supporting medical

equipment

EC6 Evacuation center with observation by a health professional /

hospital

New category for Evacuation Center

Agent

based

Crowd

sourcing

How to Collect the Data?

Type of Cloud Messaging Platform

Source: http://www.livemint.com/Industry/vU55FbKdlz9vIfkxUb0EoL/Facebook-tops-

networking-WhatsApp-in-message-apps-in-India.html

Telegram

API –

Application

Programme

Interface

Mobile Application Platform for Data Collection

Criteria Cloud Messaging Apps Mobile Apps

Security Encrypted data Vulnerable to threat

Connectivity Can send data with GPRS and EDGE

(image needs EDGE) Can only send data with 3G and above

Storage Encrypted Cloud (no server required)

concept Need a dedicated server (costly)

Cost Free and only use your own tool API

(only 1 programming language)

Costly to be build for IOS, Windows and Android

platforms (need different programming

languages for different platform)

Upgrade Free upgrade with a new version of

telegram

Need to upgrade the mobile apps when the

newer version of IOS, Windows and Android

platforms available

Data location Build in GPS location with customize

maps

No data location function and need to write a

programme for data location function

User Unlimited number of user Large number of user will slowdown the server

Adaptation Low barrier entry Moderate to high barrier entry

Device and

OS suitability Cross platform/device Specific to certain devices based on OS/platform

Data Feeder: Telegram vs Mobile Apps

Not only for pre-disaster

preparedness but also

database for special needs

groups (JKM, Dialysis

Centres, Pusat Zakat, etc)

1. Special needs groups sub categories.

2. Type of the chronic diseases of the special needs groups

3. Standard level of care of the special needs groups

4. Category of the evacuation centres

Concept of Telegram BOT API

Concept of spatial and non-spatial

database

https://usm.tuxgeo.com/

Developed Platform

1)Target user: BOMBA

Jabatan Kebajikan Masyarakat

Jabatan Pertahanan Awam

Agensi Pengurusan Bencana Negara

State Government; Local Council

Pusat Zakat

2) Type of Business: Structured data management especially mainly

in societal well-being using geo-web visualization.

3) Social Innovation: Novel solution to disaster management

specifically for people in needs that is more effective, efficient and

sustainable. The value created accrues primarily to society rather than

to private individuals.

4) Improvement of the process: The system has proven to cut down

time spent using conventional approach where the data were

manually collected and managed and has proven to be inefficient to be

used during the disaster.

Potential Application

Category Proposed Prototype Existing product

Data feeder

Cloud messaging apps (Telegram) as

data feeder platform (low barrier entry

– easy adoption)

Mobile apps as data feeder platform

Application

Pre disaster and during disaster

(focusing more on the pre disaster

situational awareness)

During disaster

Function

Focused for people in needs only

(OKU, Health conditions; mobility of

the person) where the spatial and non-

spatial data can be used for various

purposes such as disaster

management, aide distribution etc.)

Various type of disaster and emergency

cases (Flood, hurricane, landslide etc.) –

non specific application

Data

management

Integration with spatial and non spatial

database

Either only spatial or non spatial database

no seamless integration

Cost Cost effective and lower maintenance Costly – multiple platform maintenance

User Approve process for white list using

BOT father – automated process Specific user / unique id

Comparison with existing product in the market

THANK YOU.

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