Study of CAP Profile Requirement for Emergency Alert System in Korea

When a disaster occurs, effective alerts will reduce human life and property loss. The Integrated Emergency Alert System is a national disaster management system which integrates existing alert systems to deliver effective disaster alerts. Alert message exchange protocol is the essential technology for the System. In Korea, the first specification for “Common Alerting Protocol Profile for Integrated Emergency Alert System” was established in 2014. In this paper, we derive two additional requirements for more enhanced alert service and propose revision of the specification: multilingual alert service for foreigners and more flexible representation of target area. We review the associated foreign profile specifications as well as the domestic specifications to analyze these requirements. Finally, we propose the most efficient way to deliver multilingual alert message and to represent target area. Keyword : Emergency Alert System(EAS), Common Alerting Protocol(CAP) 특집논문 (Special Paper) 방송공학회논문지 제19권 제6호, 2014년 11월 (JBE Vol. 19, No. 6, November 2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.5909/JBE.2014.19.6.847 ISSN 2287-9137 (Online) ISSN 1226-7953 (Print) 848 방송공학회논문지 제19권 제6호, 2014년 11월 (JBE Vol. 19, No. 6, November 2014)