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Communications in Emergency and Crisis Situations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2014

In emergency and crisis situations (ECS) like earthquakes, tsunamis, terrorist attacks, it is very important that communication facilities are operative to provide services both to rescue teams and civilians. In ECS it is very common that communication premises are often unable to provide services, either due to physical damages or traffic overload. In such a case there is the need for rapid reestablishment of communication services. In this paper the communication services that can be exploited for ECS mitigation are discussed. The usage scenarios of such services are studied. Following that and looking from a network perspective view an ECS communication network architecture is presented. This architecture aims to provide seamless interoperability of varies communication technologies often present in ECS A primary challenge in responding to Emergency and Crisis Situations (ECS) is communication which plays a crucial role. Emergency response is an open field for new innovative technologies due to the demanding nature of emergency operations. In the case of an ECS telecommunication infrastructure might be inoperative or have poor Quality of Service (QoS) to provide the required services. In ECS, different Emergency Response Authorities (ERA) are involved (civil protection, police, rescuers e.t.c.). This rises a major challenge regarding ECS communication infrastructures, the challenge of interoperability.

EMYNOS: Next Generation Emergency Communication

IEEE Communications Magazine, 2017

Current emergency systems and 112 services are based on legacy telecommunication technologies, which cannot cope with IP-based services that European citizens use every day. Some of the related limitations are the partial media support, the lack of integration of social media, and the use of an analogue modem for providing emergency Call (eCall) services with limited data amount. As most operators have started migrating towards broadband IP-based infrastructures, current emergency systems need also to be upgraded and adapted in order to fulfil regulatory requirements in terms of next generation emergency services. This paper present EMYNOS project which aims to the design and implementation of a Next Generation platform capable of accommodating rich-media emergency calls that combine voice, text, and video, thus constituting a powerful tool for coordinating communication among citizens, call centers and first responders. Additionally, issues such as call routing/redirection to the closest-available call center, retrieval of the caller location, support for people with disabilities, and integration of social media will be detailed.

E-SPONDER System: A new Communication Infrastructure for Future Emergency Networks.

This paper describes a novel emergency communication network architecture implemented within the FP7 EU project E-SPONDER [1]. It is characterized by the deployment of heterogeneous wireless systems and also by its holistic approach achieving reliability, high performance, reconfigurability and standalone operation. It is a complete suite of real-time communication technologies built to support the first responders [1] with information services during disaster events. This work investigates the system architecture in an aircraft landing incident and describes a field test carried on at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam. More specifically, a scalable and adaptive telecommunication architecture that ensures voice, video and data between first responders and command centers at all times, even under extreme conditions, is presented. The structure and functionalities of the VoIP subsystem that operates above the proposed heterogeneous E-SPONDER network architecture is described, with a detailed scenario analysis. Finally, the paper presents how the recommended solutions are integrated into an implementable platform.

Mobile Emergency Communication System Architecture

In this paper, emergency communications past and present are discussed. The current public safety issues of non‐ interconnected separately owned and operated Land Mobile Radio (LMR or private mobile radio (PMR)) networks to the presently designed systems for interconnected from agency to agency use radio systems that are created by unifying communication resources providing public safety agencies local, regional, and national services. These proposed interconnected systems are called mobile responder communication networks (MRCNs). Many groups have explored how to accomplish interconnecting existing and new infrastructure, from small devices to larger, interconnecting public to private networks. A particular focus of this paper will also explore a newer technology called WiMAX, a bridging technology that can expand the useable spectrum of services currently available. The infrastructure, including WiMAX, can bridge services and also enhance current ones. MRCNs can use a common IP‐ based network service intelligent session control to bridge commercial networks as well with LMRs. Thus, this would allow for the support of multimedia services, broadband access via high data rate access, and mission critical group voice and other services not available with current LMR technologies during emergency responses.

COSTLESS CALL -AN EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEM DURING DISASTERS

The proposal presents a communication application which is capable of creating a private network. On turning on the application, without relying on any infrastructure, a non secure private network is created. This private network can be detected by other devices within the transmission range of the network. So that those devices can be added to the network. It can also be acquainted in any public network, priorly existing. At the event of any disaster, the entire communication system collapses. In such a situation, when even an unprofessional rescue team enters to perform the rescue operation, it is possible to establish an emergency communication system using this application. Expanding on this concept, we present a prototype solution 'Store and Forward', which scores over the existing TCP/IP in MANETs. In order to extend services over longer distances, access points may be set up at certain distances across the region. This access point makes use of static IP. Also, when the person chucked in disaster just switches on Wi-Fi, he will get connected to the created network. This makes communication, and eventually the rescue possible. This could have been much useful in case of disasters like Uttarkhand catastrophic floods, where local people could have got engaged in rescue operations without waiting for the rescue forces.

Cross standard system for future public safety and emergency communications

Ieee 60th Vehicular Technology Conference 2004 Vtc2004 Fall 2004, 2004

Public safety community shows an increased interest in standardized communication and information system that could support reliable technology transparent multimedia communication during multinational emergency operations. The introduction of public safety communication system that will be able to use all available means of communications, including rapidly deployable networks, to cope with large scale disasters or/and to implement preventive measures is very important today. The article provides a survey of existing public safety communications systems; discusses their evolution, current status of research activities and presents the idea of cross standard communication system (CSS). It provides an overview of the key research problems in CSS development.

Lessons Learned on the Operation of the LoST Protocol for Mobile IP-Based Emergency Calls

2010

The International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM), is an academically rigorous outlet for research into crisis response and management. It is focused on the design, development, implementation, use and evaluation of IS technologies and methodologies to support crisis response and management. It explores issues critical to the application of IS to crisis response and management.

Telematic system for supervision and support of tactical staff involved in disaster response

Periodicals of Engineering and Natural Sciences (PEN), 2020

This paper describe the design and implementation of a Telematic System that aims to supervision and support tactical staff involved in disaster response operations. Each tactical group member carries a programmable electronic module that allows obtaining information about the state of the environment (temperature, humidity, hot spots, air quality, etc.) and itself (position, emergency signal, heart rate, etc.). The information collected is sent to a data server through a wireless network based on LoraWAN technology, where it is stored and processed to obtain different types of reports that allow to plan the response operations and make decisions according to reality. To test the system functionality, a prototype was implemented based on the architecture described in this paper. The results were satisfactory, obtaining effective, permanent and real-time communication between tactical staff within the disaster-affected area and strategic staff responsible for decision-making outside ...

An Ad Hoc Network Infrastructure: Communication and Information Sharing for Emergency Response

2008

, * UCSD Division of Calit2 During an emergency response, access to a reliable communication infrastructure is required to exchange accurate information in a timely manner. Various communication technologies have been deployed for emergency response; however communication between different first response organizations has always been a problem. This is due to either broken networks or lack of knowledge regarding the channel frequency in use for the same device. According to recent investigations, text messaging was shown to be more reliable than voice to exchange short messages carrying critical information. Additionally, posting and updating the information on an electronic webpage accessible to all is also very useful. In addition, we would also suggest that team leaders physically stand together, thus improving network resource utilization plus ensuring receipt of updates and information from peers in the event the higher ranked person in the hierarchy is not reachable. In this paper, we present supporting arguments for the choice of a wireless mesh network as a candidate to provide communication infrastructure for emergency response. We also present a comprehensive set of technical, social and organizational challenges which we experienced first hand during several deployments, learned about in interviews with emergency responders and by examination of the after-incident reports. Many of these challenges become even more of a concern and have a greater impact on international disasters concerning multiple countries when traditionally different technologies are used often in conjunction with different languages. We also present the results of network performance analysis which identifies sources of bottleneck and overhead in communication. A distributed control hierarchical authority is necessary to prevent bottleneck and the need to cancel an already scheduled path due to resource unavailability or security breach.