Title :
Sensors in cyber-physical emergency systems
Author :
Gelenbe, Erol ; Fang-Jing Wu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Imperial Coll. London, London, UK
Abstract :
This paper surveys current research on wireless sensor assisted evacuation and rescue systems and discusses related research in communications and sensor networks. Other important issues that we survey for large scale emergency response systems include distributed control, knowledge discovery, and prototyping platforms.
Keywords :
decision support systems; wireless sensor networks; cyber-physical emergency systems; distributed control; knowledge discovery; large scale emergency response systems; prototyping platforms; rescue systems; sensor networks; wireless sensor assisted evacuation; Cyber-Physical Systems; Distributed Decision Support; Emergency Management; Wireless Communications; Wireless Sensors;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Sensor Systems (WSS 2012), IET Conference on
Conference_Location :
London
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-84919-625-3
DOI :
10.1049/cp.2012.0578
