Application of Wireless Sensor Networks for Monitoring Emergency Events

Author

Chen, Defu ; Tao, Zhengsu ; Ma, Guoxi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Instrum. Sci. & Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Wireless sensor network is becoming a new method for monitoring emergency events due to its capabilities of wide monitoring range, self organizing and incessantly working. A model of emergency events monitoring system based on wireless sensor network was presented. The work flow of monitoring system was elaborated at first. Then some requirements were presented according to system demands, which consist of realtime monitoring, situation forecasting, intelligent scheduling and so on. Meanwhile, feasible solutions including sensitive and reliable hardware, intelligence nodes dispatching algorithm, controlled and self-adapting MAC protocol, congestion avoiding and robust routing protocol, data fusion and real-time locating were discussed in detail.

Keywords

emergency services; radiotelemetry; wireless sensor networks; congestion avoiding; data fusion; emergency events monitoring; intelligent scheduling; real-time monitoring; routing protocol; self-adapting MAC protocol; situation forecasting; wireless sensor networks; Demand forecasting; Dispatching; Hardware; Intelligent sensors; Media Access Protocol; Monitoring; Organizing; Routing protocols; Scheduling; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.929

Filename

4678837