Design and test of a precise mobile GPS tracker

Abstract:The prevention and correct management of natural disaster event sequences play a key role in saving human lives. The availability of embedded and mobile smart computing systems opens new roads for the management of land and infrastructures by civil protection operators. To date, research has explored the use of social networks for the management of disasters connected to meteorological/hydrogeological events or earthquakes, but without emphasis on the importance of an integrated system. The main feature of the Whistland system proposed in this paper is to make synergistic use of augmented reality (AR), crowd-mapping (CM), social networks, the Internet of Things (IoT) and wireless sensor networks (WSN) by exploiting technologies and frameworks of Web 2.0 and GIS 2.0 to make informed decisions about the chain of events. The Whistland system is composed of a geo-server, a mobile application with AR and an analytics dashboard. The geo-server acts as the hub of the sensor and social networks. The abstracted concept in this sense is the transformation of the user domain into "intelligent sensors" for the whole scope of crisis management. The social network integration is made through an efficient pointer-like mechanism that keeps the storage requirement low through a mobile application based on an augmented reality engine and provides qualitative information that sensors are unable to capture. Real-time analyses, geo-searches and the capability to examine event histories with an augmented reality engine all help the stakeholders to understand better the state of the resources under observation/monitoring. The system has been extensively tested in the programmed maintenance of river basins, where it is necessary to log maintenance activities in order to keep the riverbank clean: a significant use-case in many countries affected by hydro-geological instability.

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“…Both heat-maps can be animated slicing all of the event tweets into time windows, adopting the technique described in [29].…”

Section: Analytics Dashboardmentioning

confidence: 99%

Whistland: An Augmented Reality Crowd-Mapping System for Civil Protection and Emergency Management

Luchetti

Mancini

Sturari

et al. 2017

IJGI

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“…Many previous experiences in the field of geographical and interactive information systems [9][10][11][12][13] of the research group involved in the SIT REM project were used to design the new interactive system described in the following sections. The main typical features of existing web GISs, for example Berlin FIS-Broker and Polska Geoserwis mapy, are similar to those of the system here proposed.…”

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confidence: 99%

SIT-REM: An Interoperable and Interactive Web Geographic Information System for Fauna, Flora and Plant Landscape Data Management

Frontoni

Mancini

Zingaretti

et al. 2014

IJGI

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Abstract:The main goal of the SIT-REM project is the design and the development of an interoperable web-GIS environment for the information retrieval and data editing/updating of the geobotanical and wildlife map of Marche Region. The vegetation, plant landscape and faunistic analysis allow the realization of a regional information system forwildlife-geobotanical data. A main characteristic of the SIT-REM is its flexibility and interoperability, in particular, its ability to be easily updated with the insertion of new types of environmental, faunal or socio-economic data and to generate analyses at any geographical (from regional to local) or quantitative level of detail. Different query levels obtain the latter: spatial queries, hybrid query builder and WMSs usable by means of a GIS. SIT-REM has been available online for more than a year and its use over this period has produced extensive data about users' experiences.

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A smartphone-cloud application as an aid for street safety inventory

Kattan

Aboalmaaly

2014

2014 11th International Conference on Electronics, Computer and Computation (ICECCO)

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Design and test of a precise mobile GPS tracker

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Whistland: An Augmented Reality Crowd-Mapping System for Civil Protection and Emergency Management

Whistland: An Augmented Reality Crowd-Mapping System for Civil Protection and Emergency Management

SIT-REM: An Interoperable and Interactive Web Geographic Information System for Fauna, Flora and Plant Landscape Data Management

A smartphone-cloud application as an aid for street safety inventory

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