EMYNOS: Next Generation Emergency Communication

Markakis, Evangelos K.; Lykourgiotis, Asimakis; Politis, Ilias; Dagiuklas, A.; Rebahi, Yacine; Pallis, Evangelos

doi:10.1109/mcom.2017.1600284cm

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“…[190]. These applications may save time and allow social workers, rescue squads and civil protection authorities to spend their time more wisely on urgent cases [191]. Furthermore, the application can inform the community about the best route to a shelter or the nearest open infirmary or aid station.…”

Section: Flood Warning and Communicationmentioning

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A Review of the Internet of Floods: Near Real-Time Detection of a Flood Event and Its Impact

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Water

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Worldwide, flood events frequently have a dramatic impact on urban societies. Time is key during a flood event in order to evacuate vulnerable people at risk, minimize the socio-economic, ecologic and cultural impact of the event and restore a society from this hazard as quickly as possible. Therefore, detecting a flood in near real-time and assessing the risks relating to these flood events on the fly is of great importance. Therefore, there is a need to search for the optimal way to collect data in order to detect floods in real time. Internet of Things (IoT) is the ideal method to bring together data of sensing equipment or identifying tools with networking and processing capabilities, allow them to communicate with one another and with other devices and services over the Internet to accomplish the detection of floods in near real-time. The main objective of this paper is to report on the current state of research on the IoT in the domain of flood detection. Current trends in IoT are identified, and academic literature is examined. The integration of IoT would greatly enhance disaster management and, therefore, will be of greater importance into the future.

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Section: Flood Warning and Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of the Internet of Floods: Near Real-Time Detection of a Flood Event and Its Impact

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Verbeurgt

Sloover

et al. 2019

Water

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“…As a vision for the future, integration with over-the-top (OTT) systems is also foreseen, such as web-based solutions, but these are currently nonexistent in practice and only recently have standards begun to emerge. Various research projects are extending this space in the directions of accessibility for the elderly and people with disabilities, social media integration, haptics, automated calling, and similar [11][12][13][14].…”

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Next Generation Emergency Services Based on the Pan-European Mobile Emergency Application (PEMEA) Protocol: Leveraging Mobile Positioning and Context Information

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Tavcar³

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Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing

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In this paper, we analyze requirements of next generation 112 emergency services in the era of ubiquitous mobile devices and sensors and present the design, implementation, and piloting results of our testbed, which was developed within the H2020 project NEXES. The system leverages a multihop location-aware PEMEA routing network that finds the geographically closest responsible public service answering point (PSAP) and supports cross-border application roaming. Our reference mobile implementation utilizes multiple device and network-based positioning technologies, which, combined, both outperform traditional cell-tower based positioning and provide a means for detecting fraudulent calls. The system is extensible and can establish a variety of communication channels after the initial emergency session is set up; we demonstrate this with an interoperable WebRTC-based video call. The obtained results demonstrate the viability and flexibility of PEMEA-based over-the-top emergency services, show high user acceptance when comparing them with existing solutions, and thus pave the road for further rollout of such systems.

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“…The utilisation of VoIP and SIP for emergency communication has been a topic for intensive research during the past decades with [6], [7], [8], [9] and [10] being some of the research works in very recent years. Besides a European mandate for emergency communication M.493 [11] has been established by ETSI and the European Commission, to regulate the setup of VoIP emergency services' architectures according to European law and jurisdiction.…”

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VoIP-based emergency communication is a promising approach to improving the safety of citizens worldwide. The transition required in this scope includes substituting the legacy PSTN/SS7 based emergency call system by Next Generation IP based components for call establishment and control. Thereby, SIP is used as a session control protocol and RTP as the means to transfer emergency data between the caller and the corresponding Public Safety Access Point (PSAP). The emergency data is not only restricted to voice communication but can cover a rich variety of data, which can be acquired by different means (including the end-user devices) and transmitted over IP. This includes video, geopositioning data, voice, Real-Time Text, and sensor data in line with emerging IoT architectures and approaches. A vital aspect in this scope is given by the performance of the underlying network, including its capability to establish calls in emergencies and to transfer the data required for serving the situation. Therefore, in this paper, we evaluate the computational performance of the most recent VoIP emergency system implementation, which was developed by the H2020-EMYNOS project as a realisation of the EENA NG112 Long Term Definition (LTD) vision. We perform a series of trials and evaluate the performance of the EMYNOS system in a multi-party lab environment established during the project. We evaluate the time needed to perform basic emergency call operations over IP, whilst in parallel generating Internet type of background traffic. Correspondingly, we worked out a methodology and implemented it in our testbed, both of which are presented in the current paper. The obtained numerical results lead to the conclusion that SIP-based emergency services stand a good chance to replace legacy systems when it comes to their performance. Additionally, we also provide a perspective on how the blockchain technology could potentially be put to use to enhance the quality of the next-generation emergency services. We propose the utilisation of blockchain technology for tracking emergency calls and enabling efficient recognition of fraud calls, which is a critical aspect for PSAP providers concerning the potential denial of service attacks. In this context, we provide evaluations and numerical results based on a private Ethereum based blockchain playground running at the premises of Fraunhofer FOKUS.

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EMYNOS: Next Generation Emergency Communication

Cited by 28 publications

References 5 publications

A Review of the Internet of Floods: Near Real-Time Detection of a Flood Event and Its Impact

A Review of the Internet of Floods: Near Real-Time Detection of a Flood Event and Its Impact

Next Generation Emergency Services Based on the Pan-European Mobile Emergency Application (PEMEA) Protocol: Leveraging Mobile Positioning and Context Information

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