An IoT application for locating victims aftermath of an earthquake

Karakaya K. M., Şengül G., Gökçay E.

1st IEEE Ukraine Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, UKRCON 2017, Kyiv, Ukrayna, 29 Mayıs - 02 Haziran 2017, ss.876-880 identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/ukrcon.2017.8100372
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Kyiv
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Ukrayna
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.876-880
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: framework, Internet of Things, IoT, search and rescue
  • TED Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This paper presents an Internet of Things (IoT) framework which is specially designed for assisting the research and rescue operations targeted to collapsed buildings aftermath of an earthquake. In general, an IoT network is used to collect and process data from different sources called things. According to the collected data, an IoT system can actuate different mechanisms to react the environment. In the problem at hand, we exploit the IoT capabilities to collect the data about the victims before the building collapses and when it falls down the collected data is processed to generate useful reports which will direct the search and rescue efforts. The proposed framework is tested by a pilot implementation with some simplifications. The initial results and experiences are promising. During the pilot implementation, we observed some issues which are addressed in the proposed IoT framework properly.