The research presented herein aims at managing emergencies by means of a Federated Cloud of Things wherein cloud resources such as computing, storage and network resources, physical objects like sensors and actuators, as well as virtual ones resulting from the processing of user-generated data are connected together in order to provide a virtual seamless infrastructure to tackle emergency situations. Indeed, it is worth to notice the fact that, during the last years, emergency events like floods, pandemics and earthquakes, as well as human activity-based disasters like terrorism, train accidents, and nuclear power plant failures, have involved several areas in the earth causing casualties, and damaging the economics of countries as emerged by several reports and researches. In these scenarios, an efficient management of the emergency and a prompt response on it are needed as soon as an emergency occurs. For this purpose, the monitoring of events and people is a fundamental task and, in many cases, it is also needed to accomplish actions in the emergency, for instance evacuating people and moving them towards safe areas or other emergency-related operations. This brings out the need for sensors and actuators which allow an Emergency Management System (EMS) to properly manage an emergency. Furthermore, given the number of the organizations involved in the emergency, several collaboration issues arise: often organizations use legacy systems and communications with other systems may be difficult and they usually do not give full access to their systems thereby obstructing the sharing of resources and/or data. According to these aforementioned aspects occuring during emergencies, this research proposes a framework that provides a infrastructure for Emergency Management System (EMS).
La ricerca mostrata di seguito mira alla gestione delle emergenze attraverso un'architettura basata sul Federated Cloud of Things dove le risorse dei cloud sono di computing, storage, networking e oggetti fisici come sensori e attuatori, sia reali, sia virtuali. Tali risorse, virtualizzate, sono connesse in una infrastruttura a supporto della gestione delle emergenze. Infatti, come emerge da report e lavori di ricerca, occorre notare il fatto che, nei recenti anni, le emergenze come alluvioni, epidemie e terremoti, oltre che emergenze artificiali come atti di terrorismo, incidenti ferroviari, incidenti nucleari hanno interessato diverse aree sulla terra causando perdite di vite, feriti e danni economici dei paesi. In questi scenari un sistema efficiente di gestione delle emergenze e una risposta pronta quando un'emergenza si verifica, sono necessari al fine di salvare vite umane e limitare i danni al verificarsi di un'emergenza. A tal fine il monitoraggio degli eventi e delle persone è un'attività fondamentale; tale attività è inoltre necessaria per decidere di compiere azioni durante le emergenze come, ad esempio, portare le persone in una situazione sicura. Ciò conduce alla necessità di avere sensori e attuatori che permettono a un sistema di Emergency Management di gestire opportunamente l'emergenza.S Inoltre, dato il numero di organizzazioni coinvolte nell'emergenza, emergono alcuni problemi riguardanti le capacità di collaborazione: spesso le organizzazioni usano sistemi legacy e le comunicazioni con altri sistemi possono essere difficili, inoltre spesso non è consentito l'accesso pieno ai sistemi delle organizzazioni ostacolando quindi la condivisione di risorse e/o dati. Tenendo conto di questi aspetti che interessano le emergenze, questa ricerca propone un framework che fornisce un infrastruttura per gli Emergency Management System (EMS).
A Federated Cloud of Things for Emergency Management / Taccari, Gilberto. - (2015 Feb 25).
A Federated Cloud of Things for Emergency Management
Taccari, Gilberto
2015-02-25
Abstract
The research presented herein aims at managing emergencies by means of a Federated Cloud of Things wherein cloud resources such as computing, storage and network resources, physical objects like sensors and actuators, as well as virtual ones resulting from the processing of user-generated data are connected together in order to provide a virtual seamless infrastructure to tackle emergency situations. Indeed, it is worth to notice the fact that, during the last years, emergency events like floods, pandemics and earthquakes, as well as human activity-based disasters like terrorism, train accidents, and nuclear power plant failures, have involved several areas in the earth causing casualties, and damaging the economics of countries as emerged by several reports and researches. In these scenarios, an efficient management of the emergency and a prompt response on it are needed as soon as an emergency occurs. For this purpose, the monitoring of events and people is a fundamental task and, in many cases, it is also needed to accomplish actions in the emergency, for instance evacuating people and moving them towards safe areas or other emergency-related operations. This brings out the need for sensors and actuators which allow an Emergency Management System (EMS) to properly manage an emergency. Furthermore, given the number of the organizations involved in the emergency, several collaboration issues arise: often organizations use legacy systems and communications with other systems may be difficult and they usually do not give full access to their systems thereby obstructing the sharing of resources and/or data. According to these aforementioned aspects occuring during emergencies, this research proposes a framework that provides a infrastructure for Emergency Management System (EMS).File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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