Managing disasters-rapid deployment of sensor network from drones: Providing first responders with vital information

Graven, Olaf Hallan; Sørli, Jon-Vegard; Björk, Joakim; Samuelsen, Dag A. H.; Bjerknes, Jan Dyre

doi:10.1109/iccre.2017.7935067

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“…Drones were suggested by several focus group members, despite public concerns for privacy regarding the use of drones, and first responders have been using drones in Canada and the US more frequently in the last 10 years [25]. Among other things, drones have been used to assess the scene, communicate from the command post to responders and/or victims at the scene, transport medical supplies, and place sensors for wireless communication in a disaster [26,27].…”

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Requirements Gathering Through Focus Groups for a Real Time Emergency Communication System for HAZMAT Incidents (REACH)

Medcalf¹,

Hale²,

Achutan³

et al. 2021

J Pub Health Issue Pract

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During HAZMAT emergencies, first responders are the first to reach the incident site. Over the years, there has been an increase in the number of first responder deaths and heat related illness. Heat-related illnesses are most often studied in outdoor workers and wild land firefighters but occur in a variety of workers across the US. Surveillance programs reported approximately 28,000 HRI hospitalizations between 2001 and 2010. The progression from heat exhaustion to heat stroke can occur rapidly so first responders need warning systems to alert them to the impending health hazards of heat stress. This study works with HAZMAT first responders in Nebraska to explore and assess the status of responder safety in the state and begins with the first responder focus group requirements gathering process. A consensus building process was used for the focus group sessions and yielded thematic areas of health and safety concern. Responder safety was named the most common area of concern and solutions to individual risks were proposed by focus group participants from a local HAZMAT response team. The results of this focus group serve to inform researchers of priorities to consider in the development of responder health monitoring systems and to continue with research in wearable technology for real time health monitoring. Early intervention when monitored responders demonstrate signs of distress ultimately saves lives.

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Requirements Gathering Through Focus Groups for a Real Time Emergency Communication System for HAZMAT Incidents (REACH)

Medcalf¹,

Hale²,

Achutan³

et al. 2021

J Pub Health Issue Pract

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“…1) UAV-Aided Disaster Communications: As explained in [12], the importance of UAVs in emergency scenarios is not limited to post-disaster situations but also concerns the phases of pre-disaster preparedness and disaster assessment. Indeed, many works in the literature discussing disaster communications have considered using UAVs for applications related to situational awareness [13], damage assessment [14], and network rehabilitation [4], [15], [16]. Authors in [13], in fact, approached the problem of situational awareness by deploying drones in order to capture a digital terrain model and place sensors in a disaster-struck area, creating a dynamic sensor network.…”

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UAV-Aided Post-Disaster Cellular Networks: A Novel Stochastic Geometry Approach

Matracia

Kishk

Alouini

2023

IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.

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Motivated by the need for ubiquitous and reliable communications in post-disaster emergency management systems (EMSs), we hereby present a novel and efficient stochastic geometry (SG) framework. This mathematical model is specifically designed to evaluate the quality of service (QoS) experienced by a typical ground user equipment (UE) residing either inside or outside a generic area affected by a calamity. In particular, we model the functioning terrestrial base stations (TBSs) as an inhomogeneous Poisson point process (IPPP), and assume that a given number of uniformly distributed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with cellular transceivers is deployed in order to compensate for the damage suffered by some of the existing TBSs. The downlink (DL) coverage probability is then derived based on the maximum average received power association policy and the assumption of Nakagami-m fading conditions for all wireless links. The proposed numerical results show insightful trends in terms of coverage probability, depending on: distance of the UE from the disaster epicenter, disaster radius, quality of resilience (QoR) of the terrestrial network, and fleet of deployed ad-hoc aerial base stations (ABSs). The aim of this paper is therefore to prove the effectiveness of vertical heterogeneous networks (VHetNets) in emergency scenarios, which can both stimulate the involved authorities for their implementation and inspire researchers to further investigate related problems.

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“…1) UAV-Aided Disaster Communications: As explained in [12], the importance of UAVs in emergency scenarios is not limited to post-disaster situations but also concerns the phases of predisaster preparedness and disaster assessment. Indeed, many works in the literature discussing disaster communications have considered using UAVs for applications related to situational awareness [13], damage assessment [14], and network rehabilitation [4], [15], [16]. Authors in [13], in fact, approached the problem of situational awareness by deploying drones in order to capture a digital terrain model and place sensors in a disaster-struck area, creating a dynamic sensor network.…”

Section: A Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, many works in the literature discussing disaster communications have considered using UAVs for applications related to situational awareness [13], damage assessment [14], and network rehabilitation [4], [15], [16]. Authors in [13], in fact, approached the problem of situational awareness by deploying drones in order to capture a digital terrain model and place sensors in a disaster-struck area, creating a dynamic sensor network. On the other hand, [14] proposed combining UAV-based imagery with ground observations and collaborative sharing with domain experts for either post-disaster assessment, environmental management, or monitoring of infrastructure development.…”

Section: A Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

UAV-Aided Post-Disaster Cellular Networks: A Novel Stochastic Geometry Approach

Matracia¹,

Kishk²,

Alouini³

2023

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Motivated by the need for ubiquitous and reliable communications in post-disaster emergency management systems (EMSs), we hereby present a novel and efficient stochastic geometry (SG) framework. This mathematical model is specifically designed to evaluate the quality of service (QoS) experienced by a typical ground user equipment (UE) residing either inside or outside a generic area affected by a calamity. In particular, we model the functioning terrestrial base stations (TBSs) as an inhomogeneous Poisson point process (IPPP), and assume that a given number of uniformly distributed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with cellular transceivers is deployed in order to compensate for the damage suffered by some of the existing TBSs. The downlink (DL) coverage probability is then derived based on the maximum average received power association policy and the assumption of Nakagamim fading conditions for all wireless links. The proposed numerical results show insightful trends in terms of coverage probability, depending on: distance of the UE from the disaster epicenter, disaster radius, quality of resilience (QoR) of the terrestrial network, and fleet of deployed ad-hoc aerial base stations (ABSs). The aim of this paper is therefore to prove the effectiveness of vertical heterogeneous networks (VHetNets) in emergency scenarios, which can both stimulate the involved authorities for their implementation and inspire researchers to further investigate related problems.

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Managing disasters-rapid deployment of sensor network from drones: Providing first responders with vital information

Cited by 6 publications

References 9 publications

Requirements Gathering Through Focus Groups for a Real Time Emergency Communication System for HAZMAT Incidents (REACH)

Requirements Gathering Through Focus Groups for a Real Time Emergency Communication System for HAZMAT Incidents (REACH)

UAV-Aided Post-Disaster Cellular Networks: A Novel Stochastic Geometry Approach

UAV-Aided Post-Disaster Cellular Networks: A Novel Stochastic Geometry Approach

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