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WEA Server

A Node.js server that enables a testbed for enhanced wireless emergency alerts.

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Installation

Setup a MySQL database and enter the credentials in a file development.json in the config folder. The structure of the file is as follows:

{
  "db": {
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "username": "wea",
    "password": "secret",
    "name": "wea",
    "logging": true,
    "force": true
  }
}

Afterwards install the dependencies:

npm install

Usage

For the first run, set the force flag in the above configuration to true.

node app.js

Srver UI

Contributors

Project lead

Hakan Erdogmus, hakan.erdogmus@sv.cmu.edu

Developers

Joao Diogo De Menezes Falcao, joao.diogo.de.menezes.falcao@sv.cmu.edu

Sumeet Kumar, sumeet.kumar@sv.cmu.edu

Joel Krebs, joel.krebs@sv.cmu.edu

Behrouz Rabiee, behrouz.rabiee@sv.cmu.edu

Harsh Alkutkar, harsh.alkutkar@sv.cmu.edu

License

For Mobile application, check this repository: https://github.com/sumeetkr/WEAMobile

Citation

If you use this repository please cite,

Sumeet Kumar, Hakan Erdogmus, Bob Iannucci, Martin Griss, and João Diogo Falcão. 2018. Rethinking the Future of Wireless Emergency Alerts: A Comprehensive Study of Technical and Conceptual Improvements. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 2, 2, Article 71 (July 2018), 33 pages. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3214274

Falcão, João Diogo, Joel Krebs, Sumeet Kumar, and Hakan Erdogmus. "OpenAlerts: A software system to evaluate smart emergency alerts and notifications." In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers, pp. 1250-1255. 2018. https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3267305.3274115