Interoperability by 'Edgeware': Wireless Grids for Emergency Response

Dynamic emergency response communication: The Intelligent Deployable Augmented Wireless Gateway (iDAWG)

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

“…Software for wireless grid connectivity utilizes open specifications, allowing ad-hoc, distributed resource collaboration for devices and applications on a new scale, and enabling greater interoperability across networks, devices, applications, services, and content. According to [65], a wireless grid has the capacity to solve the problems of trust, access and control over resources and thus constitutes an approach toward tackling urgent issues of information and resource sharing.…”

“…Coordination theory [38] provides insight into what enables multiple actors to coordinate ad-hoc in a dynamic environment. Crises possess the characteristics of such an environment, and [68] proposes that technology (e.g., wireless grid technologies [65]) will address the coordination problem and enable people to self-organize accordingly. The information broker as such does affect the coordination problem in two ways: (1) directly, crowdsourcing is enabled through bi-directionality and open communication; and (2) indirectly, since the alignment of interoperability levels and information broker layers in the general architecture is a prerequisite to enabling different actors in an emergency to form groups ad-hoc and dynamically.…”