Civilians in areas hit by earthquakes become in particular concerned about the safety of
family and friends. However, outages in communications networks following these events …

In mathematics, forest fires are mainly described by the fire spread model. The model
analyzes the tree-to-tree (T2T) spread of the fire, providing the optimal solution for rescuers …

The accelerating advancement of 5G networks, Internet of Things, and data processing
methods in the 21st century raised people's demand for location-based services, especially …

Firefighter's interventions under dense smoke and flames are hazardous and ideally need
an efficient in-advance geo-located actuation plan. The existing communication and sensing …

Positioning technology is an important component of environmental perception. It is also the
basis for autonomous decision-making and motion control of firefighting robots. However …

There are several LPWAN radio technologies providing wireless communication to the
billions of connected devices that form the so-called IoT. Among them, LoRa has emerged in …

With the development of the Internet of Things, indoor positioning systems based on location
services have been widely used in factories, warehouses, hospitals, smart homes, and high …

This dissertation addresses a bidirectional scheme of Ultra-Wideband (UWB)-based
localization system, which is generally overlooked in the literature causing its potential …

This paper introduces the Agilica Geo-Location (AGL) system, an Ultra-wideband (UWB)
technologybased solution designed for precise positioning and tracking in challenging edge …

Search and Rescue (SAR) operations can be vastly benefited by the use of IoT and
especially by Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) technologies, such as Long Range …