Communications in Emergency and Crisis Situations

Miaoudakis, Andreas; Petroulakis, Nikolaos E.; Kastanis, Diomedes D.; Askoxylakis, Ioannis G.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-07788-8_51

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“…There are also EWS and emergency management systems that allow full-duplex digital communication among first response organizations and government agencies during evacuations; e.g., through cellular and private networks [20,29]. However, these systems are usually not available for civilians [31,15].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Concerning the participation of civilians in emergency situations, the literature reports several experiences where people use social networking services (SNS) to help deal with these events [37,13]. However, in natural disasters the incidence area is usually affected by a communication blackout due to physical damages, traffic overload, or lack of electricity [3,20,29]. Therefore, the use of SNS and regular communication infrastructure is diminished or not feasible in these locations.…”

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confidence: 99%

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An IoT-based infrastructure to enhance self-evacuations in natural hazardous events

Finochietto

Micheletto

Eggly

et al. 2021

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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Regardless of the extensive research conducted on large scale evacuations, the instrumentation of these processes still represents an open issue for first response organizations. Self-evacuation of civilians that follow evacuation plans has shown to be feasible as early response to several natural disasters; however, the typical lack of interaction capability of the evacuees with first response organizations and emergency managers, jeopardizes the effectiveness of these processes. This article proposes an IoT-based infrastructure that supports self-evacuation of civilians in mass processes, allowing people to participate as information providers and consumers. This infrastructure is the backbone of an ambient intelligence system used as a bridge between evacuees, first response units and the emergency operation

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

An IoT-based infrastructure to enhance self-evacuations in natural hazardous events

Finochietto

Micheletto

Eggly

et al. 2021

Pers Ubiquit Comput

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“…Reference [24] gave excellent techniques using key agreements to enhance the security of mobile wireless networks. Reference [25] discussed the communication services that can be exploited during the disaster recovery and reconstruction operations.…”

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Ensuring Reliable Communication in Disaster Recovery Operations with Reliable Routing Technique

Menon

Pathrose²,

Priya

2016

Mobile Information Systems

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The purpose of this research paper is to ensure reliable and continuous communication between the rescue officers and other people during disaster recovery and reconstruction operations. Most of the communication infrastructure gets damaged during the disaster and proper communication cannot be established in the area which leads to longer delays in emergency operations and increased damage to life and property. Various methods proposed to enable communication between the people using wireless ad hoc networks do not guarantee reliable delivery of data with fast moving devices. This paper presents a Reliable Routing Technique (RRT) that ensures reliable data delivery at the destination device even when the people with the mobile devices are moving in the network. We make use of the broadcasting property of the wireless network and create a priority list of probable forwarding candidates at each device. With this technique, RRT ensures that if a forwarder device is unable to forward the data packet due to movement of mobile devices, the next priority candidate forwards the data packet to the destination device, thus ensuring reliability of data delivery in the network. Simulation results show that RRT achieves significant performance improvement with better data delivery in ad hoc networks.

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“…Once they themselves are safe, and while aftershocks may still be occurring, people must to deal with the second matter, most likely under a blackout of utilities and regular communications services, such as mobile or landline telephony and Internet-based messaging. Such infrastructure is usually unavailable because of physical damage, traffic overload, or lack of electricity [1]. To avoid the risk of fire, the electricity supply is usually shut down immediately after the shock, and it is activated only after a case-by-case damage inspection, which in the event of an earthquake can take days.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…To avoid the risk of fire, the electricity supply is usually shut down immediately after the shock, and it is activated only after a case-by-case damage inspection, which in the event of an earthquake can take days. All these reasons contribute to the typical communications blackout that comes after an earthquake [1,2,3]. Figure 1 depicts a simplified and conceptual view of such a communications scenario, where most communications brokers in the affected area (e.g., cellular antennas) collapsed or were shut down.…”

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LoRaMoto: A communication system to provide safety awareness among civilians after an earthquake

Centelles

Meseguer

Freitag

et al. 2021

Future Generation Computer Systems

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Civilians in areas hit by earthquakes become in particular concerned about the safety of family and friends. However, outages in communications networks following these events limit their capacity to get information. So, people drive their cars to check on their loved ones, risking their own lives and hindering the activities of first response organizations. This article proposes LoRaMoto, a communications system that allows civilians to exchange information about their status with others without hampering the first responders and minimizing their exposure to hazards. Furthermore, the information exchanged can be aggregated to support the operations of emergency management. LoRaMoto extends the LoRaWAN architecture and implements a packet-forwarding mechanism between the end nodes of the system. This helps overcome potential infrastructure blackouts after an earthquake, so it provides safety awareness information when it is most needed. We evaluated the system performance and capacity of this system by simulating its use in a realistic environment, testing a baseline configuration, and exploring several modifications to better understand its scalability and its portability to other emergency environments. The simulation results show how the LoRaMoto system can meet the communication needs of civilians, and also keep first response and emergency management organizations informed.

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Communications in Emergency and Crisis Situations

Cited by 7 publications

References 5 publications

An IoT-based infrastructure to enhance self-evacuations in natural hazardous events

An IoT-based infrastructure to enhance self-evacuations in natural hazardous events

Ensuring Reliable Communication in Disaster Recovery Operations with Reliable Routing Technique

LoRaMoto: A communication system to provide safety awareness among civilians after an earthquake

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