Interoperability and Information Brokers in Public Safety: An Approach toward Seamless Emergency Communications

Kuehn, Andreas; Kaschewsky, Michael; Каппелер, Андреас; Spichiger, Andreas; Riedl, Reinhard

doi:10.4067/s0718-18762011000100005

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“…These must be carefully checked for interoperability and robustness [1]. Interoperability demands closely coordinated processes and activities for operation and communication, and must equally address the political, legal, semantic, organizational, and technical levels [2,29]. The cooperation between the involved actors is highly determined by legal regulations regarding notification and documentation duties [42] on top of technical aspects.…”

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Blockchain Technology for Emergency Response

Siemon¹,

Rueckel²,

Krumay

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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As unforeseen situations, emergencies threaten the environment, property, and people's lives. Large emergencies are characterized by the demand for coordination of a variety of actors, such as civil defense or disaster relief. Communication and information exchange are crucial for coordination. Therefore, a solid, stable communication infrastructure is among the crucial factors for emergency response. New technologies that seem to ensure trustworthy communication must be evaluated constantly. Blockchain technology is widely applied in a broad variety of contexts and is commonly known for its decentralized and distributed governance. This is the motivation for the design and evaluation of a framework for the adoption of blockchain technology in the case of emergency response following a design science approach. Evaluation of the artifact using a specific evaluation framework clearly indicates the suitability of the case for application of blockchain technology.

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“…Therefore, a crucial precondition for an interpersonal and interorganizational information exchange and cooperation is trust. Thus, the information providers in an interorganizational network will not exchange their messages without guarantee of classical information security features [25,29,47].…”

Section: State Of the Fieldmentioning

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Blockchain Technology for Emergency Response

Siemon¹,

Rueckel²,

Krumay

2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…The room should offer the nursing staff facilities within their workflow as well as location-and time-independent communication for patients, staff and visitors. The combination of social and sensor media can also be used as an emergency system, because it can respond in a timely manner [23]. No matter how promising the integration of sensor data from a patient room into a social network is, it depends on the patient's maturity and sense of responsibility to himself.…”

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Sensor Data Meets Social Networks Reflecting on Benefits in the Case of a Patient Room

Kuhn

Spichiger

Riedl

2013

Availability, Reliability, and Security in Information Systems and HCI

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Abstract. In a hospital, information exchange is essential to save lives and to prevent life-endangering mistakes. Information exchange is supported by a hospital information system (HIS). From a theoretical perspective, the deployment of an HIS is promising because it reduces errors and duplication of information. In practice, however, there are some major problems concerning the usage of such a system. One way to deal with these problems is introduced in this paper: the integration of sensor data into social media. The paper concentrates on the conceptual benefits and risks such an integration may generate. It focuses on the case of a patient room.

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“…However, in the response stage of disaster management, previously collected information about disaster areas cannot go beyond being a reference, such as base maps and disaster information systems. Therefore, real-time local information through an ad hoc information-sharing network is required (Kuehn, Kaschewsky, Kappeler, Spichiger, & Riedl, 2011) to compare the ongoing situation with the preparedness plans. Thus, incidents such as infrastructure damage and building collapse that occur during disasters can be integrated with previously developed disaster information systems.…”

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Emergency response with mobile geosocial sensing in the post‐app era

Yılankıran

Güney

2020

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Disaster and emergency management is inherently a spatial problem. In case of disaster, the use of real-time locationbased social media posts within the spatial decision support processes has great potential so that resource distribution can be planned, damage areas can be determined, the amount of damage can be estimated, and evacuation and/ or help routes can be defined. Crowdsourced data and collaborative platforms like OpenStreetMap and Twitter can be widely employed for near-real-time mapping to support emergency management. After a disaster occurs, the aim is to quickly assess and triage damage, injury, and loss of life, and respond with medicine, food, water, housing, and basic infrastructure. In the scope of the study, in a similar manner, a solution, called WITNER, is proposed, designed, and developed. The difference is that WITNER is a cloudnative geo-enabled solution. The value of WITNER lies in the fact that it acts only as a mediator in translating help requests posted on a social media platform into spatially readable form, while keeping original social media post requests intact and accessible. The main purpose of WITNER is to help more people and save more lives in case of emergency response, with the intention of preventing the same help request locations being concurrently targeted by multiple relief, search, and rescue efforts. Moreover, it reveals more viable and less costly help requests that might take less time for potential help providers to assist with.

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Interoperability and Information Brokers in Public Safety: An Approach toward Seamless Emergency Communications

Abstract: This paper is available online at www.jtaer.com DOI: 10.4067/S0718-1876201100010000

Cited by 17 publications

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Blockchain Technology for Emergency Response

Blockchain Technology for Emergency Response

Sensor Data Meets Social Networks Reflecting on Benefits in the Case of a Patient Room

Emergency response with mobile geosocial sensing in the post‐app era

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