A Wireless In-door System for Assisting Victims and Rescue Equipments in a Disaster Management

Author

Toral, S.L. ; Barrero, F. ; Cortés, F. ; Reina, D.G. ; Marsal, E. ; Hinojo, J.M. ; Soto, M.

Author_Institution

Electron. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Seville, Seville, Spain

fYear

2010

fDate

24-26 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

502

Lastpage

506

Abstract

This paper presents a system based on electronic equipments, standard mobile phones and WLAN networks for managing evacuation routes, or for obtaining information about victims´ location and status, whenever a building collapses due to a disaster like earthquakes. The system is based on the standard Blue tooth specification to guarantee their application in indoor areas. The electronic equipments, their specifications and communication links, and the implications and viability of the entire system are analyzed in this work.

Keywords

Bluetooth; disasters; indoor radio; mobile radio; wireless LAN; Bluetooth specification; WLAN networks; building collapse; communication links; disaster management; earthquakes; electronic equipment; evacuation route management; indoor areas; mobile phones; rescue equipment; victim assistance; victim location information; victim status information; wireless in-door system; Bluetooth Standard; Disaster Management; Embedded Systems; WLAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCOS), 2010 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Thessaloniki

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8828-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4278-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INCOS.2010.19

Filename

5702150