Thailand
installs first phase of national tsunami early warning
system in Phuket - triggered via Inmarsat
A national disaster tsunami early warning
system is being set up across Thailand - that will be
triggered via Inmarsat in the event of impending disaster.
The first site is at Patong beach,
Phuket, which was badly affected by the devastating
tsunami that struck southe-east Asia on December 26.
Two alarm sirens have been placed on
top of two hotels and a third - a larger siren - is
installed on a pole erected on the beach front.
The three sirens are designed and located
in positions that will enable warning sounds to be heard
throughout the whole Patong Beach bay area.
The sirens are programmed to broadcast
a range of different types of warning sounds - with
announcements in Thai, English, Chinese, German, Swedish
and Japanese.
Testing of the alarm systems is currently
under way. The larger siren on the beach front can be
heard for 1.5 kms and the other two from half a kilometre.
Frankie Neo, president of Singapore-based
Kemilinks, which installed the system, said: "The
sirens will be triggered and monitored at a tsunami
monitoring headquarters in Bangkok through a network
of communications systems - and wherever suited, Inmarsat
systems will be deployed.
"Kemilinks' D+ application and
solutions software, will be used for triggering and
monitoring all the sirens, alarms - and remote sensor
sites."
For disaster management and search
and rescue operations, a number of systems will be used
- including other Inmarsat services, such as the mini-M,
GAN, and eventually BGAN when it is launched.
The
sites at Patong Beach are the first of up to 50 locations
in six provinces facing the Andaman Sea that Thailand
plans to equip with sirens to warn of a natural disaster.
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