Ubiquitous Monitoring System for Critical Rescue Operations

Real world sensor network deployments and prototype implementations are still a challenging research and development area for scientists and engineers. We present a prototype implementation of a ubiquitous monitoring system (UBIMOS) applying wireless sensor networks. The monitoring system is designed for use by various operation teams, especially by critical rescue and communication teams. With its light weight and secure communication abilities, UBIMOS can be used in a variety of critical operations, ranging from disaster recovery to anti-terror operations. A UBIMOS agent gathers wearable sensor data from individuals, physical locations, and operation team members, and distributes the data to critical decision making and emergency response locations. The distribution of the sensor data is performed in two modes, secure and insecure (but reliable). Therefore, the communication protocol of UBIMOS is implemented to fully support secure node- authentications and secure data exchange operations, as well as insecure but fast data exchange operations.