Quick Response (QR) Codes for Emergency Management

This may be your introduction to a new technology.  I just read about Quick Response (QR) codes this morning.  The concept is a quick way to get just about any information into the hands of a potential consumer. They just need to have a smart phone with a reader application.

 

One such company marketing QR Codes is SPARQCode   See the link to see what a code looks like and how it might be used. 

 

I'm now thinking about how we might use the QR Code for emergency management.  Imagine your typical Disaster Preparedness Fair.  You have your table set up and on the table is a cardboard sign with your QR Code that lets people scan the code and go right to the preparedness section on your website.  Or, you are sending information out with the utility bills and all the utility company has to do is have a one sentence line about disaster preparedness and a QR Code that links to your website.

 

After a disaster you have established a disaster recovery center and people can scan a QR Code that takes them directly to disaster recovery application information and materials. 

 

It looks like a winner to me!