Product Research & Industrial Design

Lighting for Disaster Rescue
Analyzing the current disaster rescue process and supply distribution system, this project proposed a product solution to speed up the rescue process with low production costs.

Contemplation on the Rescue System

How to save as many people as possible from earthquakes in the “golden time”?
The main problem in the rescuing process is that resources to save people are always scarce during the first dozen hours, known as the golden time. During the golden time there is the highest likelihood that prompt medical treatment will prevent death.

The key to solving this problem and save more people is to help local people employ efficient local rescue plans as soon as possible. This design is mainly focused on earthquakes.

Current Short-Term Rescues:

In the current rescues of earthquakes, helicopters play an important role to assess the general situation. They send airborne rescue teams and resources in the shortest time. But the majority of professional rescuers can only arrive later.

Thus, the major rescues in the “golden time” is done by the local people. How to organize local people efficiently to use the resources from helicopters for fast rescues becomes a key. 

Proposed Short-Term Rescue with a New Lighting System

1. Enable First Time Evaluation from Helicopters
While the lights are spread by the helicopters, the light enables the professionals sitting in helicopters to have a clearer view and evaluation of the damage caused by an earthquake.

2. Enable More Locals to Join in the Rescue Process
Offered more light, the locals can rescue right away, even during night.
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3. Easy and Fast Temporary Lighting Infrastructure Building
By building lighting infrastructures in the shortest time, the locals and the later professional rescuers can thus rescue efficiently.

4. Easy to Transport
The lights are light weighted and small volumed. 

Product Strategy

Sustainable Modular Lighting System
Using the modular design strategy enables the product to suit different stages of rescue and lowers its production costs.

The modular design strategy can further lower its production costs by offering daily use designs for a bigger market.

Modular designs for rescue and daily uses.

The two forms of the system share a lot of parts and one form can be used and sold for daily use. This lower its costs and help enterprises gain profits in the longer-term by maximizing its use.

The lights with solar panels wings is used during the very first stage of rescue.

Spreading the lights, the professionals on the helicopter can evaluate the general situation as soon as an earthquake happens.

The victims can also gain hope as soon as they see the lights.
After landing, the lights can be reused by the victims immediately.
People can also fix a light to any object to form a temporary lighting infrastructure. This will help immediate as well as future rescues.

Lights without solar panel wings can be used in the later stage of rescue as well as daily use.

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