Countering Bioterrorism: Why Smart Buildings Should Have a Code of Ethics

Author

Borrion, H. ; Mitchener-Nissen, T. ; Taylor, James ; Ka-Man Lai

Author_Institution

Dept. of Security & Crime Sci., Univ. Coll. London, London, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

22-24 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

68

Lastpage

75

Abstract

This article examines some of the ethical issues that engineers face in developing bio-protection systems for smart buildings. An innovative approach based on four different containment strategies is used to identify these issues. Subsequent analysis shows that, whilst smart buildings have the potential to prioritize the safety of the group over that of individuals, the practical and ethical implementation of such containment strategies would require systems account for the uncertainty over the clinical state of each individual occupant.

Keywords

biohazards; building management systems; ethical aspects; home automation; terrorism; bio-protection systems; biological attacks; bioterrorism counter strategies; code of ethics; containment strategies; ethical issues; group safety; occupant clinical state; smart buildings; Biological system modeling; Bioterrorism; Contamination; Humans; Smart buildings; Biological attacks; CRIMe model; ethics; smart buildings;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC), 2012 European

Conference_Location

Odense

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2358-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EISIC.2012.45

Filename

6298815