DOST to launch project Moses
By Johny S. Natad
BUTUAN CITY, July 15 (PIA) - - The Department of
Science and Technology (DOST) will launch project Mobile Operational System for
Emergency (Moses) which complements the operation of the project NOAH or
Nationwide Operational Assessment of Hazard.
The department will pilot test Moses which will
be done on the onset of the National Science and Technology week celebration on
July 22 said
DOST-Caraga Regional Director Dominga Mallonga
during the recently held Regional Summit on Disaster Risk Reduction Management.
Moses uses mobile tablet computers designed by
DOST for hazard monitoring and evacuation assistance. One thousand units of
Moses tablets are ready for distribution to identified pilot areas for testing.
The tablet computers will be used for fast transmission of disaster alerts or
warnings. The device will provide localities with key information when a
calamity strikes.
Mallonga said the Moses tablets has eight inches
mobile tablet size with dual Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) and equipped with
radio utilities. The tablet cost of P20,000 per unit. It gathers data like
temperature, moisture, and other vital information directly accessible from
Doppler radar, water level sensors, and water gauges. The project aims to boost
the full implementation of the project NOAH.
“Project Moses tablet is purposely designed to
help local DRRMC in making decisions concerning the impending disaster, whether
to declare suspension of works or classes in schools or to take evacuation
actions in their areas of concern,” Mallonga added. (FEA/PIA-Caraga)
