Managing Emergency Situations in VANET Through Heterogeneous Technologies Cooperation

Managing Emergency Situations in the Smart City: The Smart Signal

In a city there are numerous items, many of them unnoticed but essential; this is the case of the signals. Signals are considered objects with reduced technological interest, but in this paper we prove that making them smart and integrating in the IoT (Internet of Things) could be a relevant contribution to the Smart City. This paper presents the concept of Smart Signal, as a device conscious o...

Editorial: Information Technologies for Emergency and Crisis Situations Management

Enhancing Service Provisioning within Heterogeneous Wireless Networks for Emergency Situations

Emergency situations where lives are at stake, such as natural disasters, accidents, or serious fire, require low reaction times. Especially in sparsely populated areas the distance between the nearest emergency station and its disaster location may be quite large. In order to minimize reaction times, emergency communication is to be prioritized with respect to other network services. For enabl...

Managing Coordination in Emergency Response Systems with Information Technologies

An emergency response system is a multi-disciplinary concept that includes not only information technology (IT), but also social communication networks of response agents, and organizational designs. The complexity of the system, the dynamic environment in which the system is embedded, and its technical constraints imply serious coordination problem. Based on coordination theory and theory of t...

Cooperation in a Heterogeneous Robot Swarm through Spatially Targeted Communication

We consider a heterogeneous swarm robotic system composed of wheeled and aerial robots called foot-bots and eye-bots, respectively. The foot-bots are able to physically connect to one another autonomously and thus form collective robotic entities. Eye-bots have a privileged overview of the environment since they can fly and attach to metal ceilings. In this paper, we show how the heterogeneous ...