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Record Nr.

UNINA9910583086903321

Titolo

Wireless public safety networks . 3 Applications and uses / / edited by Daniel Camara, Navid Nikaein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : ISTE Press Limited : , : Elsevier Limited, , 2017

ISBN

0-08-101070-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

004.678

Soggetti

Wireless communication systems

Public safety - Technological innovations

Public safety - Information technology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Public Warning Applications : Requirements and Examples / Javier Mulero Chaves and Tomaso De Cola -- An Innovative and Economic Management of Earthquakes : Early Warnings and Situational Awareness in Real Time / Oscar Marcelo Zambrano, Ana Maria Zambrano, Manuel Esteve and Carlos Palau -- Community Early Warning Systems / Ana Maria Zambrano, Xavier Calderón, Sebastian Jaramillo, Oscar Marcelo Zambrano, Manuel Esteve and Carlos Palau --  Generating Crisis Maps for Large-scale Disasters : Issues and Challenges / Partha Sarathi Paul, Krishnandu Hazra, Sujay Saha, Subrata Nandi, Sandip Chakraborty and Sajal DAS -- Context-Aware Public Safety in a Pervasive Environment / Shivsubramani Krishnamoorthy, Prabaharan Poornachandran and Sujadevi Vijaya Gangadharan -- Supporting New Application and Services over LTE Public Safety Networks / César Agusto García-Pérez, Almudena Díaz-Zayas, Álvaro Ríos, Pedro Merino, Kostas Katsalis and Donal Morris -- Aerial Platforms for Public Safety Networks and Performance Optimization / Akram AL-Hourani, Sathyanarayanan Chandrasekharan, Sithamparanathan Kandeepan and Abbas Jamalipour -- Topology Control for Drone Networks /  Daniel Câmara -- Safe and Secure Support for Public Safety Networks / Ludovic Apvrille and Letitia W. Li -- Disaster Resilient Telematics based on Device-to-Device Communication /  Panayiotis Kolios, Christos Panayiotou and Georgios Ellinas -- ICN/DTN for Public Safety in Mobile Networks / Eryk Schiller,



Eirini Kalogeiton, Torsten Braun, André Gomes, and Navid Nikaein.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores, from the communication point of view, how teams can interact with and use new technologies and tools that can have a huge impact in the field of disaster management and greatly improve the efficiency of teams handling emergency situations. It covers themes as varied as emergency alert systems, the organization of aerial platforms and the use of smartphones to detect earthquakes and to help in the resolution of kidnappings.