Wireless sensor network for building evacuation

Kruger, C P; Hancke, Gerhard P.; Bhatt, D.V.

doi:10.1109/i2mtc.2012.6229656

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“…A more efficient way to perform building evacuation is to count the number of people and direct them through the quickest routes by considering congestion information, obtainable from a variety of sensors, such as beam sensors or video cameras. Examples of such WSNs are described in [62] and [63], using beam sensors and detection of tags worn by the people in the building, respectively. Although not as accurate, these methods are preferable to video camera based methods, from a processing cost perspective.…”

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The Role of Advanced Sensing in Smart Cities

Hancke

Silva

2012

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In a world where resources are scarce and urban areas consume the vast majority of these resources, it is vital to make cities greener and more sustainable. Advanced systems to improve and automate processes within a city will play a leading role in smart cities. From smart design of buildings, which capture rain water for later use, to intelligent control systems, which can monitor infrastructures autonomously, the possible improvements enabled by sensing technologies are immense. Ubiquitous sensing poses numerous challenges, which are of a technological or social nature. This paper presents an overview of the state of the art with regards to sensing in smart cities. Topics include sensing applications in smart cities, sensing platforms and technical challenges associated with these technologies. In an effort to provide a holistic view of how sensing technologies play a role in smart cities, a range of applications and technical challenges associated with these applications are discussed. As some of these applications and technologies belong to different disciplines, the material presented in this paper attempts to bridge these to provide a broad overview, which can be of help to researchers and developers in understanding how advanced sensing can play a role in smart cities.

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The Role of Advanced Sensing in Smart Cities

Hancke

Silva

2012

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“…Based on wireless sensor networks technology, their system is able to detect, to localize and to quantify anomalies in a water supply system. In a different way, the paper in [ 11 ] describes a system to help evacuation of a building, determining the best exit route at each part of the building according to the number of evacuees. An application for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) in smart cities is presented in [ 12 ], where a total of 64 nodes are used to monitor vibrations in the Golden Gate Bridge, in the city of San Francisco.…”

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A Fuzzy-Based Approach for Sensing, Coding and Transmission Configuration of Visual Sensors in Smart City Applications

Costa

Collotta

Pau

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Sensors

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The advance of technologies in several areas has allowed the development of smart city applications, which can improve the way of life in modern cities. When employing visual sensors in that scenario, still images and video streams may be retrieved from monitored areas, potentially providing valuable data for many applications. Actually, visual sensor networks may need to be highly dynamic, reflecting the changing of parameters in smart cities. In this context, characteristics of visual sensors and conditions of the monitored environment, as well as the status of other concurrent monitoring systems, may affect how visual sensors collect, encode and transmit information. This paper proposes a fuzzy-based approach to dynamically configure the way visual sensors will operate concerning sensing, coding and transmission patterns, exploiting different types of reference parameters. This innovative approach can be considered as the basis for multi-systems smart city applications based on visual monitoring, potentially bringing significant results for this research field.

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Wireless visual sensor networks for smart city applications:A relevance-based approach for multiple sinks mobility

Peixoto

Costa

2017

Future Generation Computer Systems

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Wireless sensor network for building evacuation

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

The Role of Advanced Sensing in Smart Cities

The Role of Advanced Sensing in Smart Cities

A Fuzzy-Based Approach for Sensing, Coding and Transmission Configuration of Visual Sensors in Smart City Applications

Wireless visual sensor networks for smart city applications:A relevance-based approach for multiple sinks mobility

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