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We make our cities more resilient by
looking at how we responded to the
last disaster.

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S&T looks at what happened in the past,
and we want to develop plans to strengthen

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our critical infastructure twenty years
into the future.

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So let's say there's a hurricane headed
for this notional town that's near water.

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Our Relational Adaptive Processing
of Information and Display program,
or RAPID,

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enables decision making for the community
to assess risks and develop plans

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to make buildings, roads and houses more
resilient before the disaster happens.

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At the same time, RAPID provides a
decision support system for during
the disaster:

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we know what to do and when to do it
as the water rises.

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And let's say the water did rise, and
the subway is about to be flooded.

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Wouldn't it be handy to have something
that could inflate and plug the tunnels?

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The tunnel plug would be pre-installed
so that someone can flip a
switch remotely, it deploys,

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and now the subway is safe.

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But - uh oh! All that water caused
one of our extra-high voltage
transformers to blow.

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Well, we have a recovery transformer -
or RecX, that we can load up on an
18-wheeler.

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Instead of taking weeks or months to
replace an EHV transformer,

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RecX shortens this process
to six days.

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The flooding also damages electrical
distribution infastructure.

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Well - we have grid imagery capabilities
to help utilities quickly access and
identify flooded areas,

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and more quickly begin
recovery operations.

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The high winds from the hurricane
also caused trees to fall on power lines,
and caused power outages.

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Well, we have two things
to help with that: first, we have
the downed line status indicator.

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We have sensors on the poles that can
communicate and tell utilities which
areas have problems.

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Second, we have the quick-release
connector on utility poles,

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so that when lines do go down,
the poles don't go down with them,

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meaning restoring power is
faster and easy.

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Bad things are going to happen,
and our critical infastructure
may be threatened.

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But, RAPID helps us make smarter
decisions, which reduces damage

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and recovery time when a
hurricane floods the town.

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At S&T, we've got a plan!