**4. Conclusion**

This study was conducted to reduce the death tolls in disasters. The current existing practice is to rescue the local people after cyclone landfalls that cannot

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ensure survival of people in the affected area. To save lives, people should be identified and rescued before the occurrence of extreme events. Manual detection of people is time consuming that is not available during an extreme event but it could be easy by adopting technological intervention. The smartphone can contribute to this issue for the identification of the people in the shelter. The Wi-Fi scanner can detect all the people within the shelter with turned on Wi-Fi in their smartphones. The proposed method recommends the application of Wi-Fi scanners and smartphones for the detection of human mobility in MPCSs. The results showed that the proposed method can detect 100% people in the shelter area and this method will

To identify missing people, it had only 4 easy steps: 1) developing inbuilt index, 2) developing new index of people in MPCS, 3) producing index of missing people by comparing inbuilt index and new index, and 4) evacuation and rescuing of missing people. Therefore, it is very easy to indexing the missing people to be rescued before cyclone landfalls and efficient to reduce death tools. Thus, this proposed method maximises the safety of stakeholder and minimises life risk

The proposed method is utmost important to reduce the death tolls because all vulnerable people will be rescued before a cyclone landfall. This study is to ensure the evacuation of all community people in the catchment area of a MPCS. Forced evacuation is suggested when we have enough information about their location and family burdens. People will be safe in the MPCS. We expect "zero death tolls" that could be a dream in case of a disaster. Though this investigation has some important implications, it requires improvement in future research. This study investigated for small number of participants. This study should be extended for 400 to 2500 people to simulate the capacity of the MPCS. The penetration rate of smartphone does not reach 100%. Several MPCSs and community people could be included in the experi-

The authors are wholeheartedly thankful to the people who participated in the experiment and contributed to the success of this research. This research was

funded by the Patuakhali Science and Technology University.

MoDMR Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief

BMD Bangladesh Meteorological Department

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

**Appendices and nomenclature**

Post-monsoon October–November false alarm failure of warning

CS cyclone shelter

MPCS multipurpose cyclone shelter

CPP cyclone preparedness program

SWC Storm Warning Centre

Pre-monsoon April–May

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accelerate the evacuation and rescue operation.

ment for successful implementation.

**Acknowledgements**

**Conflict of interest**

against disasters.
