Emergency Planning for UAV-Controlled Crowd Evacuations

One of the most challenging problems during disasters involving crowds is pedestrian evacuation. It is very important in such situations to improve survival rates by getting all or most of the people out in the shortest possible time. Technological intervention through augmenting the evacuation process using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) exhibits great potential in improving survival rates, but the exploration of this method is still in its infancy. Therefore, this study explores the potential of utilizing UAVs for crowd management during emergency evacuations. We conducted a rigorous study, using a simulation model featuring four UAVs and differing numbers of pedestrians, with use of two UAV guidance approaches: partial guidance and full guidance. The experimental results suggest that exploiting UAVs in crowd evacuation and following the partial guidance approach can lead to a more efficient evacuation process.

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Simulation Model of Crowd Evacuation Navigation in a Multi-Obstacle Environment

Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board ◽

10.1177/0361198120971264 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 036119812097126

Author(s):

Zhongrui Ni ◽

Zhen Liu ◽

Tingting Liu ◽

Yanjie Chai ◽

Cuijuan Liu

Keyword(s):

Simulation Model ◽

Simulation Experiment ◽

Control Algorithms ◽

Prototype System ◽

Evacuation Simulation ◽

Agent Based ◽

Crowd Management ◽

Navigation Simulation ◽

Local Navigation ◽

Crowd Evacuation

The simulation of a crowd evacuating public buildings can be an important reference in planning the layout of buildings and formulating evacuation strategies. This paper proposes an agent-based crowd model; a crowd evacuation navigation simulation model is proposed for the multi-obstacle environment. We introduce the concept of navigation factor to describe the proximity of the navigation point to the exit. An algorithm for creating navigation points in multi-obstacle environment is proposed along with the global navigation and local navigation control algorithms of the crowd. We construct a crowd evacuation simulation prototype system with different simulation scenes using the scene editor. We conduct the crowd evacuation simulation experiment in the multi-obstacle scene, recording and analyzing the relevant experimental data. The simulation prototype system can be used to derive the evacuation time of the crowd and analyze the evacuation behavior of the crowd. It is expected to provide a visual deduction method for crowd management in an evacuation emergency.

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Cyber Security Challenges for Smart Cities

10.4018/978-1-6684-3666-0.ch066 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 1459-1480

Author(s):

Anand Nayyar ◽

Rachna Jain ◽

Bandana Mahapatra ◽

Anubhav Singh

Keyword(s):

Cyber Security ◽

Smart City ◽

Smart Grids ◽

Data Transfer ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Privacy Preserving ◽

Automation System ◽

Security Models ◽

The People ◽

Aerial Vehicle

Smart cities are composed of interlinked components with constant data transfer and services targeted at increasing the life style of the people. The chapter focuses on diverged smart city components as well as the security models designed to be implemented. The four major paradigms discussed in this chapter are smart grids, building automation system (BAS), unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), and smart vehicles. Apart from addressing the security concerns of every component, the major highlights of this chapter are architecture, smart environment, industry, lifestyle, services, and digital lifestyle quality. Finally, the chapter focuses on privacy preserving mechanisms, its essence over smart cities, strong architecture related to privacy, preserving mechanism, and various approaches available that can retaliate these issues in a smart city environment.

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Crowd Density Estimation for Crowd Management at Event Entrance

University of the Future: Re-Imagining Research and Higher Education ◽

10.29117/quarfe.2020.0241 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Omar Elharrouss ◽

Somaya Al-Maadeed ◽

Khalid Abualsaud

Keyword(s):

Density Estimation ◽

The Novel ◽

Novel Technologies ◽

Crowd Management ◽

The People ◽

Crowd Density Estimation ◽

Crowd Density ◽

Surveillance Cameras ◽

Abnormal Behaviors

Crowd management is an essential task to ensure the safety and smoothness of any events. Using the novel technologies including surveillance cameras, communication technics between security agents, the control of the crowd has become easier. However, the sue of these technics is still not perfectly effective. This paper presents an approach for managing the crowd at the entrance of event (festival, stadium...) using surveillance cameras. Using cameras and some panels in each entrance, the crowd density is extracted and illustrated in each panel. So, before reaching any gate, the people can see the available and the not crowded gate to reach the target. The proposed technique helps not just in smoothing the motion of the crowd but also minimize the crowdity and abnormal behaviors of the people.

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PEMBUATAN DAN POTENSI PEMANFAATAN UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV) UNTUK KEAMANAN WILAYAH RT. 19 KELURAHAN KARANG JOANG TAHUN 2020

SELAPARANG Jurnal Pengabdian Masyarakat Berkemajuan ◽

10.31764/jpmb.v4i1.3267 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 546

Author(s):

Alfian Djafar ◽

Gad Gunawan ◽

Doddy Suanggana ◽

Chandra Suryani Rahendaputri

Keyword(s):

Human Resources ◽

Community Service ◽

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽

Security System ◽

Preliminary Stage ◽

The People ◽

Aerial View ◽

Aerial Vehicle ◽

Uav Security ◽

Made In

ABSTRAKAngka kriminalitas yang meningkat menjadi salah satu permasalahan pembangunan di kota Balikpapan. Tindakan kriminalitas seperti pencurian, penculikan anak, tindakan asusila terhadap perempuan dan sebagainya sangat meresahkan warga. Tidak terkecuali untuk warga perumahan Griya Wiyata Asri (GWA) III, RT 19, Kelurahan Karang Joang, Balikpapan. Sejauh ini, pelaksanaan Siskamling terbukti efektif dalam meminimalisir terjadinya tindak kejahatan di perumahan GWA III, terutama pada malam hari. Namun, permasalahan terjadi pada siang hari karena mayoritas warga perumahan masuk dalam kategori produktif, bekerja sehingga berada di luar perumahan, bahkan ada yang di luar kota. Suasana perumahan sangat sepi, sehingga meninggalkan celah tindakan kriminalitas bisa terjadi pada siang hari. Oleh karena itu, dibutuhkan upaya penanggulan atau pencegahan tindak kriminalitas. Untuk membantu upaya pencegahan tindak kriminalitas, dirakitlah sebuah Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). UAV ini digunakan untuk memantau kondisi di perumahan GWA III. Metode evaluasi dari pengabdian masyarakat tahap awal ini adalah sebatas melalui observasi hasil pemantauan udara. Dari hasil foto, kejernihan foto dan kondisi perumahan yang dapat diobservasi secara jelas per bingkai foto udara, maka UAV ini berpotensi untuk digunakan sebagai penunjang siskamling dengan permasalahan kurangnya sumber daya manusia pada siang hari di perumahan GWA III ini. Kata kunci: UAV; siskamling; keamanan. ABSTRACTBalikpapan, a city of oil. Despite this predicate, it suffer from high criminal level. This incude robbery, child kidnapping, female abuse that have been a great concern in many residential in Balikpapan. One of this residence is Griya Wiyata Asri III Residence. In this residence, a neigbourhood security system has been made. In this system, the resident of this residence have a shift to do a night watching. This system have been effective in the night, but in the daylight, because most of the people are in productive age, most of them working outside of this residential, make this residential empty, thus, making an opportunity for criminal to occur. To answer this probem, an unmanned aerial vehicle was built to monitor the condition of the neighbourhood. The evaluation of this preliminary stage of this community service was done merely from the results of the aerial view. This aerial view, it is so clear and can capture well the activity done in the neighbourhood in a one frame. So, this UAV have a potential to be used as aid to the neighbourhood security system which have a problem on lacking some human resources in the daylight. Keywords: UAV; security; neighbourhood.

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TINGKAT KELANGSUNGAN HIDUP BENIH IKAN BETOK (A.TESTUDINEUS, BLOCH) YANG DIPELIHARA DIDALAM WADAH YANG MENGGUNAKAN SHELTER BAMBU, PARALON DAN TEMPURUNG KELAPA

Jurnal Akuakultur Sungai dan Danau ◽

10.33087/akuakultur.v5i2.71 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 63

Author(s):

M Yusuf Arifin ◽

Muhammad Sugihartono ◽

Agusten Roy Marpaung

Keyword(s):

Research Design ◽

Growth Rates ◽

Survival Rates ◽

Environmental Design ◽

Control Treatment ◽

Treatment Control ◽

Growth And Survival ◽

The People ◽

Randomized Design ◽

Completely Randomized Design

Betok fish is very popular with the people because of the delicious and tasty taste of the meat, therefore this type of fish is quite potential for cultivation. (Muslim 2008) in (Anggara et al 2013). Most people who cultivate betok fish (A.testudineus, Bloch) do not understand their character or behavior, so that many farmers experience complaints in maintenance, especially in their growth and survival. As an alternative to the maintenance of Betok fish (A. testudineus, Bloch), the growth rates and viability of the Betok (A. testudineus, Bloch) fry were reared in a container using a shellter. The research design used was an environmental design RAL (completely randomized design) consisting of 4 (four) treatments and 3 (three) replications. The treatments were as follows: Treatment A: Betok fish seeds (A. testudineus, Bloch) without treatment (control), Treatment B: Betok fish seeds (A. testudineus, Bloch) were given a bamboo shellter ,, Treatment C; Betok fish (A. testudineusBloch) was given a coconut shell shellter, Treatment D: Betok fish (A.testudineusBloch) was given a paralon shellter. The results showed that betok (A. tetstudineus, Bloch) seeds were maintained using a shelter (Treatment C and B) resulted in better survival rates (99.35% & 98.07%) than treatments A and D (96.15% & 96.79%).

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Crowd Evacuation Simulation Research Based on Improved Reciprocal Velocity Obstacles (RVO) Model with Path Planning and Emotion Contagion

Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board ◽

10.1177/03611981211056910 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 036119812110569

Author(s):

Jun Li ◽

Haoxiang Zhang

Keyword(s):

Path Planning ◽

Disease Model ◽

Evacuation Simulation ◽

Simulation Research ◽

Pedestrian Evacuation ◽

Important Research Topic ◽

Crowd Evacuation ◽

Evacuation Routes ◽

The Impact ◽

Emotion Contagion

Crowd evacuation simulation is an important research topic for designing reasonable building layout and effective evacuation routes. The reciprocal velocity obstacles (RVO) model is a pedestrian motion model which is used, but it does not work when complex and multiple obstacles are present in the scene. This paper proposes an improved RVO model with path planning and emotion contagion for crowd evacuation simulation. The model uses the vertices of the obstacles to construct pedestrian path nodes for planning pedestrian evacuation paths. To make the pedestrian evacuation paths simulation results more reasonable, the safety and congestion of the path nodes are considered, to plan the shortest evacuation path. Finally, a contagious disease model is introduced to study the impact of emotion contagion on the evacuation process. A crowd evacuation simulation system is developed, and simulations have been carried out in a variety of scenarios. Experiments show that the model can effectively simulate crowd evacuation, providing a powerful reference for building and layout design.

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Cyber Security Challenges for Smart Cities

Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability - Driving the Development, Management, and Sustainability of Cognitive Cities ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-8085-0.ch002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 27-54 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Anand Nayyar ◽

Rachna Jain ◽

Bandana Mahapatra ◽

Anubhav Singh

Keyword(s):

Cyber Security ◽

Smart City ◽

Smart Grids ◽

Data Transfer ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Privacy Preserving ◽

Automation System ◽

Security Models ◽

The People ◽

Aerial Vehicle

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The Computational Paradigm of Cellular Automata in Crowd Evacuation

International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science ◽

10.1142/s0129054115400031 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 26 (07) ◽

pp. 851-872 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis

Keyword(s):

Cellular Automata ◽

Real World ◽

Queuing Theory ◽

High Speed ◽

Low Cost ◽

Computational Cost ◽

Simulation Models ◽

Pedestrian Dynamics ◽

Crowd Management ◽

Crowd Evacuation

During last decades, Cellular Automata (CAs) as bio-inspired parallel computational tools have been proven rather efficient and robust on modeling and simulating many different physical processes and systems and solving scientific problems, in which global behavior arises from the collective effect of simple components that interact locally. Among others of most renowned and well established CA applications, crowd evacuation and pedestrian dynamics are considered ones of the most timely and lively topics. Numerous models and computational paradigms of CAs either as standalone models or coupled with other theoretical and practical modeling approaches have been introduced in literature. All these crowd models are taking advantage of the fact that CA show evidence of a macroscopic nature with microscopic extensions, i.e. they provide adequate details in the description of human behavior and interaction, whilst they retain the computational cost at low levels. In this aspect, several CA models for crowd evacuation focusing on different modeling principles, like potential fields techniques, obstacle avoidance, follow the leader principles, grouping and queuing theory, long memory effects, etc. are presented in this paper. Moreover, having in mind the inherent parallelism of CA and their straightforward implementation in hardware, some anticipative crowd management systems based on CAs are also shown when operating on medium density crowd evacuation for indoor and outdoor environments. Real world cases and different environments were examined proving the efficiency of the proposed CA based anticipative systems. The proposed hardware implementation of the CAs-based crowd simulation models is advantageous in terms of low-cost, high-speed, compactness and portability features. Finally, robot guided evacuation with the help of CAs is also presented. The proposed framework relies on the well established CAs simulation models, while it employs a real-world evacuation implementation assisted by a mobile robotic guide, which in turn guides people towards a less congestive exit at a time.

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Desain Arsitektur IoT untuk Budidaya Gurami

Jurnal Teknologi Informasi dan Ilmu Komputer ◽

10.25126/jtiik.0813529 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 111

Author(s):

Yupit Sudianto

Keyword(s):

Internet Of Things ◽

Business Process ◽

Slow Growth ◽

Survival Rates ◽

Domain Model ◽

Selling Price ◽

High Food ◽

The Public ◽

The People ◽

National Food Security

Sektor perikanan di Indonesia memiliki potensi bagus untuk dikembangkan. Dengan pengelolaan yang baik, sektor ini dapat memberikan kontribusi bagi ketahanan pangan nasional dan meningkatkan kesejahteraan bagi masyarakat Indonesia. Salah satu sektor perikanan yang menarik untuk dibudidayakan adalah ikan gurami. Gurami banyak diminati oleh masyarakat dan memiliki harga jual yang stabil. Namun, kendala dalam budidaya gurami adalah pertumbuhan yang lambat, biaya pakan yang tinggi, dan tingkat kelangsungan hidup yang rendah. Seiring dengan perkembangan teknologi internet of things (IoT) dewasa ini, tentunya teknologi ini dapat memberikan solusi bagi pembudidaya gurami untuk mengatasi kendala tersebut. Oleh karena itu, pada penelitian ini diusulkan arsitektur IoT untuk budidaya gurami. Arsitektur IoT yang diusulkan dalam penelitian ini memiliki enam desain yang terdiri dari domain model, business process hierarchy, IoT layer, deployment, information, dan interoperability endpoint. Dengan adanya arsitektur IoT ini diharapkan sistem IoT yang dibangun sesuai dengan kebutuhan pembudidaya gurami serta memudahkan developers untuk membangun dan mengembangkan sistem tersebut. AbstractThe fisheries sector in Indonesia has great potential to be developed. With good management, this sector can contribute to national food security and improve welfare for the people of Indonesia. One of the interesting fisheries sector to be cultivated is gurami. Gurami is much in demand by the public and has a stable selling price. However, growth in gouramy cultivation is slow growth, high food costs, and low survival rates. The development of internet of things (IoT) technology today, this technology can provide solutions for gouramy farmers to overcome these obstacles. Therefore, this research proposes IoT architecture for gouramy cultivation. The IoT architecture proposed in this study has six designs consisting of the domain model, business process hierarchy, IoT layer, deployment, information, and interoperability endpoints. The IoT architecture is expected to build the IoT system in accordance with the needs of gouramy farmers and make it easier for developers to build and develop the system.

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Historical Building Inspection using the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Uav)

International Journal of Sustainable Construction Engineering Technology ◽

10.30880/ijscet.2020.11.03.002 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 11 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Hanita Yusof ◽

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Mustaffa Anjang Ahmad ◽

Aadam Mohammed Taha Abdullah ◽

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Keyword(s):

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽

Visual Inspection ◽

Suitable Condition ◽

Historical Building ◽

The People ◽

Aerial Vehicle ◽

Difficult Area ◽

Uav Image ◽

Building Condition ◽

Survey Protocol

Building inspection is very much required for all buildings especially those historical ones to maintain the structure condition and the safety of the people around. Visual inspection is commonly conducted using manual descriptive information carried out by the inspector personally. The problem with this technique of assessment is that the time needed to write all the defect description on site and to access difficult area can be hazardous. The aim of performing historical building inspection on Tan Swee Hoe’s historical mansion is to evaluate the overall condition of the building with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) image assisted inspection and Condition Survey Protocol 1 (CSP1) method. From this drone assisted inspection, it shows that the time spent on site is less than half an hour and the data collected being evaluated with CSP1 method defined that the building is dilapidated. The overall building condition is in red class and require serious attention to avoid any injuries to the visitors. To prevent a possible failure of a building in the coming years, a suitable condition inspection has been carried out to identify the current existing defect so that it would be fixed before further damage to the building and visitors around it.

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