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Disaster Management System

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Abstract- In this paper, it is tried to assess the possibility of applying intelligent building management systems (IBM) to enhance buildings Incident Command System (ICS) in the event of natural and unnatural disasters. The goal of this review is to find a more precise and effective way to control the crisis in buildings by help of intelligent systems. The use of this system, in the control of crisis in all settlements from the least scale, such as a house to highest scale, such as a town and habitat and help us to achieve an efficient and integrated intelligent system in critical situations in order to reduce any risk of both natural and man-made disasters. The research method is through specialized literature and library document and global …show more content…

Incident Command System

Iran’s location on Alps – Himalaya seismic belt and its climate and weather conditions caused that the country is exposed to various natural disasters which responding to these disasters is done through Disaster Mitigation and Management Organization. On the other hand, the structure of crisis management in the country in terms of planning and software is well-developed but in practice, implementation, and training and maneuver at national level, it faces with weaknesses and lack of hardware facilities, infrastructure and support services for crisis management. The important characteristic of the disaster management system include: [3]
- The sectorial management from the executive branch of the national sovereignty
- Participation of organizations (as expertise committees) in the preparation stage
- Cross-sectorial coordination in the implementation of crisis management
- Management of preparing stage of crisis management apart from the other three stages
- The community-oriented risk management - Increased national preparedness against natural …show more content…

The system has 36 basic posts which is determined for the five major mission of commanding, planning, operations, support and administrative-financial affairs. [4]
In 1970, Incident Command System by a labor called “Firefighting Resources of Southern California Organized for Potential Emergencies” which in partnership with local, state and federal resource came to fight large fires. Before the creation of this system, respond to incidents had many weaknesses which some of them are mentioned

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