How can technology efforts be reconciled to improve hazard/disaster preparedness, response, and mitigation to insure systems sustainability, data integrity, and supply chain protection?

Prediction

With regard to preparedness for hazard/disaster, technology such as AI are being explored to see how they can help to predict natural disaster.

If there is a breakthrough in this space, it will drastically reduce the negative impact of natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes as people will become ready to respond to them and mitigate their effects where possible.

In agriculture, there are factors which come together to bring about flooding. Flooding is one of the major disasters which cripples entire value chains. With a potential threat anticipated or predicted by AI, businesses can invest in technologies that can help protect the farms, farmland and other resources critical to such a supply chain.

AI-powered technologies that provide prediction services often combine this advanced computing prowess with the ability to process big data.

Technology can reach places that are unreachable by humans

AI-powered robots will soon become the norm.

Presently there are self-learning and self instructing robots powered by Artificial Intelligence that have applications in warfare, manufacturing, deepsea diving and intelligence gathering, and transportation. It is not out of place to predict that in the next decade, scientists would have perfected rescue robots that can go into very unstable terrain that have been damaged by flood or earthquake and attempt a rescue of lives and property at a scale that has never been possible before.

Connectivity  

Connectivity helps people access to aid, resources that are critical for survival, transmission and receipt of life--saving information etc. CISCO has successfully used its technology called TacOps (short for Tactical Operations) successfully 45 times on over 5 continents.

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