Tuesday January 04, 2005 Tsunami Disaster Cell Phone Lessons Applied to J2ME
One thing to note from the Tsunami Disaster regarding J2ME and cell phone techology: In this article people in Sri Lanka found they could not make calls on their cell phones but they could send and receive SMS text messages from their cell phones. See: Tsunami Disaster Cell Phone Lessons A good design would be to use J2ME technology as the layer on top of the SMS text layer for data transport. This way, portable J2ME MIDlets can be used as international warning monitor programs on any cell phone (which are very widespread worldwide), listening for SMS data that could announce disaster warnings (like tsunami warnings).
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Posted by anonymous on January 04, 2005 at 05:10 PM PST #
As you'll notice in the right-hand column of my blog, I've had a link to the Tsunami Disaster Relief Fund to donate money to this terrible tragedy for some time now. This is a terrible and horrific event that has occurred that needs to be prevented (and many lives could have been saved) via current technology. We as a tech community need to discuss how to prevent this from happening again.
That's the important part. I don't care if it's J2ME or SMS or speaker systems on the beaches. There should have been a warning system and it could have been implemented.
Hinkmond
Posted by Hinkmond Wong on January 05, 2005 at 07:27 AM PST #