Cyber-Physical Elements of Disaster Prepared Smart Environment
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Recent years have ushered in tremendous advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) and infrastructures for disaster management. Still, daily news on disasters has been telling us that even people in technologically advanced regions remain ill prepared. Smart and intelligent environments now offer us an increasingly broader spectrum of devices and services for comfort and convenience, safety from intruders, and social connectivity but little or nothing to help us to improve our readiness against killer tornados, major earthquakes, landslides, floods and so on. This paper first describes scenarios based on recent calamities to illustrate the need for enhancing our environments for disaster preparedness. It then describes examples of standard-based cyber-physical devices, systems and applications that can help to minimize loss of lives and damages to property. The paper concludes with opportunities and challenges to make such devices and systems dependable and affordable enough to be used pervasively as parts of future smart living environments.
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