A Cyber-Physical System for Situation Awareness Following a Diaster Situation

With the emergence in research addressing cyberphysical systems, problems that previously were ignored or thought to be too complex, can now be investigated. A particular problem which we consider in this paper is that of environmental mapping and monitoring immediately following a natural disaster or hazardous contamination to obtain situation awareness. With the tight integration of control, computation, sensing, and communication one can create a cyber-physical system to address situation awareness in such scenarios. In this paper we present a novel application of a cyber-physical system and provide possible design challenges that must be addressed when trying to realize such a cyber-physical system.