Abstract
Responding to disasters and crises is a crucial role for the government to ensure the public safety of society. Responding lies in the counter of crimes of civil or disorders, providing the urgent medical care to injured or sick people, and providing relief of natural and manmade disasters. Despite ongoing attempts to improve emergency response systems in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, it still suffers from vulnerability. With the current development of the technology and internet of things (IoT), it became necessary to apply these techniques for improving emergency response systems in Jeddah. In this paper, we present Jeddah Smart Emergency Response System (JSERS) as a solution to improve the emergency response system in Jeddah using smart city technologiesز First, we discussed the problems related to the response to accidents and disasters and their history in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, especially Jeddah. Consequently, we described the proposed solution, followed by the architecture of the system. Following by the opportunities and the challenges of system implementation are discussed. Finally, a list of suggestions that supports this system implementation and deployment is reported.
Highlights
A Smart City is an urban environment which is supported by pervasive information and a communications technology (ICT) system, that has the ultimate goal for any city – smart or otherwise – which is to make an environment where persons can live without worrying about safety
We propose Jeddah Smart Emergency Response System (JSERS) to improve the emergency response system in Jeddah using smart city technologies
Remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS ) techniques help to identify the areas in Saudi Arabia that are more susceptible to hazard
Summary
A Smart City is an urban environment which is supported by pervasive information and a communications technology (ICT) system, that has the ultimate goal for any city – smart or otherwise – which is to make an environment where persons can live without worrying about safety. According to the Gartner, it is "an urbanized area where multiple sectors cooperate to achieve sustainable outcomes through the analysis of contextual, real-time information shared among sector-specific information and operational technology system"[1]. They promise clean environment, better IT capabilities, better health care and education systems, and smart energy consumption models. One of Gartner’s most new reports evaluates that SC will account for more than 9.7 billion Internet of Things (IoT) items by 2020[1] These small devices can enhance public safety in a smart city by deploying the emergencies response system (ERS). The implementation of (JSRES) is described in section (8), and the suggestions which support an implementation and deployment of (JSERS) is discussed in (9) followed by the conclusion in section (10)
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