Towards Building Asset Registry in Emergency Response

Abstract

Abstract-This work proposes an algorithm for asset registry in emergency situations. Specifically, we take the view that first responders need to harvest the unknown capabilities of sensors in an area affected by an emergency. We show how a first responder can estimate the number of sensors with a desired sensing capability in an efficient fashion. At the heart of our algorithm is a simple probabilistic counting strategy. Our theoretical predictions were confirmed both by simulation and by implementation on IRIS sensor motes. Our theoretical and experimental results show that the error percentage of the capability collection is very low.

A Survey of Enabling Technologies for Smart Communities

“…Over the past three decades, rapid advances in inexpensive sensor technology and wireless communications have enabled the design and cost-effective deployment of largescale wireless sensor networks. Such networks appeal to a wide range of mission-critical situations, including health and environmental monitoring, seismic monitoring, industrial process automation as well as a host of applications of direct relevance to Smart Cities and Smart Communities [58,59]. Interestingly, the common thread that unifies these applications is that the sensors are affording novel, and sometimes surprising, perspectives on phenomena at a scale that was not possible before [60,61].…”

“…It is important to realize that many IoT devices, such as a smart coffee maker, for example, only contain an embedded processor and, as a rule, do not have general-purpose compute capabilities. Being ubiquitous and pervasive, IoT systems are expected to see a wide adoption in industrial applications [101,102], healthcare [103][104][105][106] and, more broadly, to be incorporated in the fabric of a Smart City or Smart Community [59,98,[107][108][109].…”