IoT-based situation awareness support system for real-time emergency management

摘要

Smart environments based on Internet of Things (IoT) are very active area of research. Another task highly relevant in today's world is emergency management and situation awareness support systems. Integration of these technologies promises to make our lives safer in the face of natural disasters, emergencies or weapon attacks. In this paper, we suggest an innovative IoT-based solution for informing people and discuss an application that uses crowd-sourced data from smartphones during emergency scenarios and provides recommendations for the safe evacuation. Two possible use cases are presented, namely (i) an emergency application and (ii) a basic routing application.