Advancing Disaster Response Systems Implementing Biometric Technologies as Demographic Identifiers

摘要

This study covers multiple findings from the origin of biometric technology, its application in the modern world, and new ideas that have made this technology practice very useful and popular. It also provides an assessment of how future developments of Natural Disaster Response Systems can benefit from utilizing parts of this technology during search and rescue situations to administer emergency medical care for disaster-stricken victims that may be unresponsive and without identification. Using biometric technologies such as fingerprint identification and iris recognition software on handheld devices will allow responders to scan fingerprints or the iris of unresponsive victims to gain emergency medical records that their healthcare professionals use to treat them.