InSight: A Bluetooth Beacon-based Ad-hoc Emergency Alert System for Smart Cities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raiful Hasan ◽  
Ragib Hasan ◽  
Tanveer Islam
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Alert System ◽  
Emergency Alert System

UNIFORMED SERVICES AND EMERGENCY CALL SYSTEM COOPERATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 142 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-287
Author(s):  
RENATA OSTROWSKA
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Services ◽  
Emergency Call ◽  
Alert System ◽  
Fire Brigade ◽  
Call System ◽  
Emergency Alert System

The study contains the most important information regarding the functioning of uniformed services in the emergency alert system. The matter of the utmost importance is to provide operation and cooperation of the Police and State Fire Brigade with emergency alert system centres. Smooth coordination in terms of sending emergency services units, emergency aid units and extensive cooperation with uniformed services in case of major disasters, are the advantages of the 112 alert system implemented by Poland.

A Comprehensive Survey on Current Literature, Standards, ‎Applications and Projects of Self-Organizing Aerial Ad Hoc Network ‎‎(AANET) in Smart Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 01 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qutaiba Ibrahim Ali ◽  
Mustafa Siham Qassab
Keyword(s):  
Current Literature ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Ad Hoc Network ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Self Organizing

Abstract : In the last few decades, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has been introduced which aims to bring more comfort to human life by integrating smartness into daily objects, yields to the idea of the smart city. Guaranteeing the well-being of residents and assessing industry and urban planning from an ecological and sustainable perspective are the main goals for the smart city. Great potentials are brought to the public and civil areas by the Aerial Ad Hoc Network (AANET) concept, especially in applications that are risky to human lives. AANET, like any emerging technology, comes with many challenges that have to be overcome to be employed efficiently. In this paper, we make a detailed survey on current literature, standards, and projects of self-organizing AANET in smart cities. Also, we intend to present a profound knowledge of this active research area by identifying features, design characteristics, architectures, routing protocols, and security aspects for the design and implementation of self-organizing AANET. Furthermore, we discuss existing solutions, indicate assessment metrics along with current applications, finally we highlight the main research scope for further developments. This article surveys the work done toward AANET-related outstanding issues, intending to encourage further research in this field.

scholarly journals Cities4ZERO: Overcoming Carbon Lock-in in Municipalities through Smart Urban Transformation Processes

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Koldo Urrutia-Azcona ◽  
Merit Tatar ◽  
Patricia Molina-Costa ◽  
Iván Flores-Abascal
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Urban Transition ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Strategic Processes ◽  
Strategic Approach

How can local authorities effectively address the decarbonization of urban environments in the long run? How would their interests and expertise be aligned into an integrated approach towards decarbonization? This paper delves into how strategic processes can help to integrate diverse disciplines and stakeholders when facing urban decarbonization and presents Cities4ZERO, a step-by-step methodology for local authorities, able to guide them through the process of developing the most appropriate plans and projects for an effective urban transition; all from an integrated, participatory and cross-cutting planning approach. For the development of the Cities4ZERO methodology, plans, projects, and strategic processes from five European cities that are part of the Smart Cities and Communities European Commission program have been monitored for 4 years, in close collaboration with local authorities, analyzing ad-hoc local strategic approaches to determine key success factors and barriers to be considered from their transitioning experiences. The study indicates that an iterative strategic approach and a project-oriented vision, combined with a stable institutional commitment, are opening a window of opportunity for cities to achieve effective decarbonization.

scholarly journals Multifunctional Interactive Furniture for Smart Cities

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (19) ◽  
pp. 1212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oihane Gómez-Carmona ◽  
Diego Casado-Mansilla ◽  
Diego López-de-Ipiña
Keyword(s):  
Information Exchange ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Multimodal Interaction ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Right

The adaptation of cities to a future in which connectivity is at the service of the citizens will be a reality by creating interaction spaces and augmented urban areas. The research on this field falls within the scope of Smart Cities (SC) with the advantages that the common public spaces provide as new points for information exchange between the city, the urban furniture and their citizens. Kiosk systems have been recognized as an appropriate mean for providing event-aware and localized information to the right audience at the right time. Hence, in this article, we provide a vision of an eco-system of multifunctional urban furniture, where kiosks are part of them, designed not only for digital interaction but for sustainable use and symbolic integration into the urban environment as well. The proposed approach is conceived to drive services through digital urban nodes that facilitate tailored citizen-city communication and interaction. The central element of the designed platform consists on an intelligent digital kiosk which features a series of hardware and software components for sensing different environmental conditions, multimodal interaction with users and for conveying the captured data to the Cloud. The custom-based contents visualized to the users are controlled remotely through a management tool that allows to set-up and configure the digital kiosk. This system is not presented as an ad-hoc solution for one specific purpose but instead, it becomes a platform that can accommodate and solve the needs of every kind of user that populates urban shared-use spaces.

scholarly journals SDN-enabled Traffic Alert System for IoV in Smart Cities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunasekaran Raja ◽  
Priyanka Dhanasekaran ◽  
Sudha Anbalagan ◽  
Aishwarya Ganapathisubramaniyan ◽  
Ali Kashif Bashir
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Alert System

scholarly journals Desenvolvimento da Vigilância Epidemiológica de Fronteira no contexto da Globalização: conceitos e marcos teóricos.

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robson BRUNIERA-OLIVEIRA ◽  
Marco Aurelio Pereira HORTA ◽  
Vinícius Silva BELO ◽  
Eduardo Hage CARMO ◽  
José Fernando de Souza VERANI
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Disease Surveillance ◽  
Prevention And Control ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Alert System ◽  
Health Security ◽  
Infectious Disease Surveillance ◽  
And Control ◽  
Rapid Alert System

Objetivo. Apresentar e analisar as ações desenvolvidas para a implementação e desenvolvimento de Vigilância Epidemiológica de Fronteiras, nos Blocos Econômicos Multinacionais, particularmente na América do Sul e Brasil. Metodologia. Foi realizado um estudo de revisão narrativa incluindo artigos científicos, documentos técnicos, diretrizes, normas, manuais, pautas de reuniões ou qualquer outro documento que fosse relacionado ao desenvolvimento e implementação de ações e programas de Vigilância Epidemiológica em Fronteiras. O estudo foi baseado nos sites das instituições/organizações multinacionais e nas bases MedLine, PubMed, Scielo e Scopus. Resultados. Foram identificados a criação de órgãos e ações no intuito de implementar e desenvolver a vigilância epidemiológica de fronteiras para os seguintes blocos: União Europeia (Health Security Committee, European Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Sistema de alerta rápido e resposta, General Rapid Alert System e Rede de Monitoramento Ad Hoc); Tratado Norte-Americano de Livre Comércio (Border Infectious Disease Surveillance, “Projeto de Vigilância e Alerta Rápido de Doenças Infeciosas”) ; Mercado Comum do Sul ( Reunião de Ministros da Saúde do Mercosul, Subgrupo de Trabalho 11 Saúde e Subcomissão Controle Sanitário de Portos, Aeroportos, Terminais e Passos Fronteiriços Terrestres); e União de Nações Sul-Americanas. Conclusões. Os programas e politicas desenvolvidos até o momento refletem o reconhecimento da importância do assunto por parte dos Estados Membros da OMS. Uma maior integração, com troca de informações, incluindo fluxos, frameworks, planos de preparação e o fortalecimento de áreas estratégicas como de energia e transporte deve ser incentivada intra e inter blocos.

scholarly journals Shared Models and Open Infrastructures for the smart City Internet of Things based on the Semantic Web

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mouad Banane ◽  
Abdessalam Belangour
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Coordination Mechanism ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Sensors And Actuators ◽  
Competition Control ◽  
The City

Contemporary cities face many challenges: energy, ecological, demographic or economic. To answer this, technological means are implemented in cities through the use of sensors and actuators. These cities are said to be smart. Currently, smart cities are operated by actors who share neither their sensor data nor access to their actuators. This situation is called vertical: each operator deploys its own sensors and actuators and has its own IT infrastructure hosting its applications. This leads to infrastructure redundancy and ad-hoc applications to oversee and control an area of the city. A trend is to move towards a so-called horizontal situation via the use of an open and shared mediation platform. Sensor data and access to the actuators are shared within this type of platform, allowing their sharing between the different actors. The costs of infrastructure and development are then reduced. This work is part of such a context of horizontalization, within an open and shared platform, in which we propose: 1) a layer of abstraction for control and supervision of the city, 2) a competition control mechanism handling conflict cases based on the RDF (Resource Description Framework) semantic Web standard, 3) a coordination mechanism promoting the reuse of actuators using ontology, 4) an implementation of our work by a proof of concept. The abstraction we propose is based on models from reactive systems. They aim to be generic and represent the invariant of the smart city: the physical elements. They allow applications to control and supervise the city. To facilitate the development of applications we standardize the interface of our models. Since these applications may have real-time constraints, especially those that have control objectives, we propose to take advantage of the distributed architecture of this type of platform. Given the sharing of the actuators, we have identified that conflicts can arise between applications. We propose a mechanism of competition control to deal with these cases of conflicts. We have also identified that a coordination mechanism must be offered to applications wishing to perform atomic control operations. Such a mechanism promotes the reuse of the actuators present in the city. Finally, we implemented our proposals around a proof of concept, including several use cases, to demonstrate our work.

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