A new heat-warning-system based on a wireless body area network for protecting firefighters in indoor operations

Dietz, Marco; Striegel, Martin; Weigel, Robert; Hagelauer, Amelie

doi:10.1109/wisnet.2018.8311557

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“…The most common approach is a wearable device, where the system is developed for the firefighters to wear it on their body. The location of the device can be the hands [7][8][9][10][11], the head [12] or in multiple locations on the body [13]. Wearable devices are the most common approach in these systems, as they offer multiple ways to implement the components of such systems.…”

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“…For example, [15] developed an intelligent garment responsible for monitoring the physiological state of the firefighter through an electrocardiogram, electrodermal activity, an electromyogram, respiration, blood volume pulse, as well as from other physical parameters, specifically temperature and motion measurements through an accelerometer. Physical parameters, such as temperature, humidity and body movement detection through acceleration, are considered in the implementation of most systems [7,[9][10][11][12][13][14][15]17,18,20]. Acquiring such values expands the capabilities of firefighters' health monitoring since aside from physiological values, vital signs such as motion or posture can be extracted.…”

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“…A popular technology used is Wi-Fi, which is used for systems inside urban areas [20][21][22]26,29] or industrial areas [28], while for firefighter-monitoring systems, it is used for communication between a more powerful intermediate device (mobile phone [10] or a broker [7]), or capable processing units (such as Raspberry Pi). For longer ranges with less power consumption, technologies like LoRaWAN [9,12,13,23,25] and ZigBee/XBee [7,14] are utilized. When no remote server is required and the data are displayed locally, Bluetooth or other small-range technologies are used [8,11,[15][16][17][18][19]24,27].…”

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Integrated Portable and Stationary Health Impact-Monitoring System for Firefighters

Lioliopoulos,

Oikonomou,

Boulougaris

et al. 2024

Sensors

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The multi-layered negative effects caused by pollutants released into the atmosphere as a result of fires served as the stimulus for the development of a system that protects the health of firefighters operating in the affected area. A collaborative network comprising mobile and stationary Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are furnished with gas sensors, along with a remote server, constructs a resilient framework that monitors the concentrations of harmful emissions, characterizes the ambient air quality of the vicinity where the fire transpires, adopting European Air Quality levels, and communicates the outcomes via suitable applications (RESTful APIs and visualizations) to the stakeholders responsible for fire management decision making. Different experimental evaluations adopting separate contexts illustrate the operation of the infrastructure.

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Integrated Portable and Stationary Health Impact-Monitoring System for Firefighters

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Oikonomou,

Boulougaris

et al. 2024

Sensors

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“…For example, the sensor node can acquire the firmware OTA using WiFi for high-speed download. If the sensor node should be used in a body area network (BAN) [10,19], the runtime-firmware image could contain a Bluetooth stack. If long-range transmissions are needed, LoRAWAN could be used.…”

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Secure and user-friendly over-the-air firmware distribution in a portable faraday cage

Striegel

Jakobsmeier

Matveev

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks

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Setting up a large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is challenging, as firmware must be distributed and trust between sensor nodes and a backend needs to be established. To perform this task efficiently, we propose an approach named Box, which utilizes an intelligent Faraday Cage (FC). The FC acquires firmware images and secret keys from a backend, patches the firmware with the keys and deploys those customized images over-the-air (OTA) to sensor nodes placed in the FC. Electromagnetic (EM) shielding protects this exchange against passive attackers. We place few demands on the sensor node, not requiring additional hardware components or firmware customized by the manufacturer. We describe this novel workflow, implement the Box and a backend system and demonstrate the feasibility of our approach by batch-deploying firmware to multiple commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) sensor nodes. We conduct a user-study with 31 participants with diverse backgrounds and find, that our approach is both faster and more user-friendly than firmware distribution over a wired connection.

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“…[3][4][5][6] In addition, the effect of thermal dissipation on human tissues is another prominent and neglected issue required to be properly addressed. In fact, tiny IoMT nodes implanted beneath the skin or placed on-body emit heat mainly due to the following three operations: [7][8][9][10] transmission and reception of radio signals, computations within IoMT, and sensing operations.…”

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Thermal and energy aware routing in wireless body area networks

Ahmed

Mahmood

Islam³

2019

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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Unlike many other Internet of Things applications, in addition to the limited power of Internet of Medical Things devices, the safety aspect and reliability are the major concerns while designing wireless body area network routing solutions. In fact, the heat dissipation from Internet of Medical Things devices and changes in body posture cause tissue damage and frequent wireless links breakage, respectively. Hence, designing an efficient routing solution is extremely challenging in wireless body area network. Considering the safety aspects of human body, the power constraint of Internet of Medical Things devices, and topological variations in wireless body area network environment, this article presents a thermalaware, energy-efficient, and reliable routing protocol named thermal and energy aware routing. In the given perspective, thermal and energy aware routing considers the weighted average of three costs while selecting the routing path: energy consumption, heat dissipation, and link quality (between communicating nodes). The proposed protocol is validated by a comparison with a state-of-the-art wireless body area network routing protocol. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed protocol is efficient in terms of energy consumption, thermal impact, and packet reception rate.

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A new heat-warning-system based on a wireless body area network for protecting firefighters in indoor operations

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Integrated Portable and Stationary Health Impact-Monitoring System for Firefighters

Integrated Portable and Stationary Health Impact-Monitoring System for Firefighters

Secure and user-friendly over-the-air firmware distribution in a portable faraday cage

Thermal and energy aware routing in wireless body area networks

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