New siren tones optimised for increased detectability distances of emergency vehicles

Planning for Medical Emergency Transportation Vehicles during Natural Disasters

One of the main critical steps that should be taken during natural disasters is the assignment and distribution of resources among affected people. In such situations, this can save many lives. Determining the demands for critical items (i.e., the number of injured people) is very important. Accordingly, a number of casualties and injured people have to be known during a disaster. Obtaining an ...

Making Way for Emergency Vehicles

One of the major problems large metropolitan areas have been facing is traffic congestion (saturation of the transportation network infrastructure). The problem’s cause is well-known: as demand gets higher, the infrastructure (roads, rails and so on) is unable to fulfil it, because of its limited capacity. The alternative to the permanent enlarging of the infrastructure is to make use of more e...

Automatic Detection of Emergency Vehicles

− In this paper a simple algorithm to detect an emergency vehicle’s siren using the linear prediction is presented. By measuring the means and variances of the reflection coefficients in a preselected number of successive frames, automatic detection of emergency vehicle’s siren is possible. It has been shown that only two coefficients are enough for successful detection. Due to the simplicity o...

Siren Song of Segmentation

Intelligent Traffic Management System for Prioritizing Emergency Vehicles in a Smart City (TECHNICAL NOTE)

Traffic congestion worldwide has led to loss of human lives due to failure in transporting accident victims, critical patients, medical equipment and medicines on time. With the unending growth in vehicular traffic everywhere, Internet of Things (IOT) and Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) have embarked as a promising platform for an Intelligent Traffic Management System (ITMS). Many researches h...