Crowdsourcing for public safety

Author

Goncalves, Afonso ; Silva, Claudio ; Morreale, P. ; Bonafide, Jason

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Kean Univ., Union, NJ, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

March 31 2014-April 3 2014

Firstpage

50

Lastpage

56

Abstract

With advances in mobile technology, the ability to get real-time geographically accurate data, including photos and videos, becomes integrated into daily activities. Businesses use this technology edge to stay ahead of their competitors. Social media has made photo and video sharing a widely accepted and adopted behavior. This real-time data and information exchange, crowdsourcing, can be used to help first responders and personnel in emergency situations caused by extreme weather such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and snow storms. Using smartphones, civilians can contribute data and images to the recovery process and make it more efficient, which can ultimately save lives and decrease the economic impact caused by extreme weather conditions.

Keywords

emergency management; information retrieval; mobile computing; smart phones; crowdsourcing; data exchange; earthquakes; emergency situations; extreme weather conditions; floods; geographically accurate data; hurricanes; information exchange; mobile technology; public safety; smart phones; snow storms; social media; Companies; Hurricanes; Maintenance engineering; Meteorology; Real-time systems; Smart phones; crowdsourcing; extreme weather; public safety; real-time network data;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems Conference (SysCon), 2014 8th Annual IEEE

Conference_Location

Ottawa, ON

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2087-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SysCon.2014.6819235

Filename

6819235