Disaster management critically depends on timely and efficient communication. To better
deal with an incident, authorities from different services (eg, fire, police) and jurisdictions …

Efficient and reliable systems are required to detect and monitor disasters such as wildfires
as well as to notify the people in the disaster-affected areas. Internet of Things (IoT) is the …

Access to emergency services like police, fire, rescue, and EMS is life or death during
natural disasters. Disaster management faces three critical problems for emergency services …

Large scale disasters like the earthquake and tsunami in Japan (2011) cripple the local
infrastructure. Proprietary systems and protocols used today for disaster response still lack …

Disasters are uncertain occasions that can impose a drastic impact on human life and
building infrastructures. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays a vital role …

The disaster recovery structure and mechanism for cloud computing networks are the key
factors that determine the disaster recovery ability and efficiency of networks. Through …

The combination of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and 3D virtual environments opens a
new paradigm for their use in natural disaster management applications. It is important to …

Disasters are the uncertain calamities which within no time can change the situation quite
drastically. They not only affect the system's infrastructure but can also put an adverse effect …

Contemporary disaster relief techniques fall significantly short in terms of efficiency and
timeliness. In a postdisaster scenario, the generation and transmission of voluminous data at …

To provide an emergency communication infrastructure for rescue helpers and victims in the
event of a disaster, the research project VirtO4WMN proposes to utilise a Wireless Mesh …