Emergency Management Platform Research Articles

The "Working Group Land of Fires" Platform for emergency management, data sharing and dissemination.

Over the last decades, the Campania Region in Italy has faced an environmental crisis due to the widespread illegal dumping and burning of waste. This has led to the area being notoriously known as the Land of Fires (Terra dei Fuochi - TdF), sparking serious concerns about public health and threatening the region's agricultural sector, one of its economic mainstays. In such a context, a timely, accurate, and reliable flow of information, aimed both at the population and at stakeholders, is crucial for establishing a proper dialogue between institutions and people, driving the empowerment of citizens. To address this crisis, the Italian Government introduced Law 6 of 2014, establishing a multidisciplinary Working Group tasked with identifying and mapping the sites affected by spills and illegal disposal in the territory. The TdF-WG defined a scientific methodology for classifying these sites in terms of prohibition on the cultivation of specific crops, consequently allowing the adoption of appropriate clean up and restoration measures for the impacted sites. This paper describes the data collection process and the IT platform commissioned by the Government to the IZS-TE and used by the TdF-WG to exchange data, knowledge, and technology, thereby fostering efficient and effective crisis management.

Methodology, application and platform for urban security planning and management

With the acceleration of economic development and urban construction, urban security accidents have occurred around the world with alarming frequency, causing serious casualties and economic losses. Urban security planning and management as emerging areas of research have drawn widespread attention. For city development plans, urban security planning and management have become one of major topics. This paper first outlines the principles of urban security planning and management, combined with the construction of a digital and intelligent platform for urban emergency management. This research then analyzes the core technology and equipment support system of urban security management and its practical application. It also presents a new model based on urban security planning and management, followed by examples of its application in some mega infrastructure development for security planning and design (for example, Singapore Changi Airport and Shanghai Hongqiao Airport Transportation Hub). Additionally, a blast protection concept of urban security planning and management is provided.

Application of big data technology in emergency management platform informatization construction

Application of big data technology in emergency management platform informatization construction

The framework of safety management on university laboratory

In recent years, with accidents in campus laboratories happening more frequently, and sporadically many personnel and property concerned are under serious threat. To address this issue, it has become a priority for universities in China to enhance safety management in the laboratory. To begin with, this study analyzed accidents that occurred in a university laboratory in the past ten years. The aim of this act was to conclude the problems in current safety management in the university laboratory. This was followed by exploring solutions and measures for those problems, making hazardous chemicals management a critical factor in campus laboratory safety management. With this idea, an assessment of hazardous chemicals of their holistic life-cycle on campus has been conducted, which realizes the information perception throughout its entire life-cycle on campus as well. Last but not least, a platform for safety and emergency management of hazardous chemicals has been built. This platform can act as a catalyst, effectively improving the regulatory levels of hazardous chemicals. Thus, the main responsibility for hazardous chemicals units can be further implemented. Through the construction of the safety management system for the full life-cycle of hazardous chemicals, the process of safety management of the university laboratory is fulfilled, and the inherent safety of the university laboratory is finally realized.

APPLICATION OF EMOTION COMPUTING BASED ON EMOTION REGULATION COMBINED WITH EDGE COMPUTING IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PLATFORM

BackgroundWith the development of mobile Internet and intelligent Internet of things, more and more new generation information technologies are applied in the field of emergency management. At present, the traditional cloud computing architecture can no longer meet the dynamic and real-time computing needs in these scenarios. As a new computing architecture, edge computing and affective computing achieve the sinking of computing power through computing unloading. The development of affective computing depends on the research of human intelligence and emotion in cognitive psychology, which endows computers with the same emotional ability as humans. On the emergency management platform, emotional computing and edge computing are used to build the emotional model of emergency management, decompose, unload and migrate the computing tasks to the edge, and improve the service quality of emergency services.Subjects and MethodsFirstly, based on the idea of combining peacetime and wartime and cognitive psychology, this paper constructs emergency management emotion calculation and edge calculation models for different emergency management scenarios, including conventional emergency management emotion calculation joint edge calculation model and wartime emergency management emotion calculation joint edge calculation model. By using cognitive psychology models of different emergency scenarios, the cognitive psychology model is integrated into the process of edge computing unloading and scheduling. It corresponds to the problem of computing unloading and resource allocation in case of no emergency (peacetime), and the problem of computing unloading and resource allocation in case of emergency (wartime). Secondly, for different emergency management scenarios, based on convex optimization and fireworks algorithm, an improved fireworks algorithm based on convex optimization is proposed to form the unloading optimization strategy of emergency management mobile edge computing in different scenarios. Under the single task delay constraint, the unloading optimization strategy takes the minimum total delay of the system as the performance index. The fireworks algorithm is used to optimize the terminal task unloading decision. After determining the unloading decision, the allocation of computing resources is obtained through convex optimization. Finally, the simulation results show that the computational unloading optimization strategy can effectively reduce the total delay of the system. In order to verify the effectiveness of the emotional model, this study uses the emotional relationship scale, which was compiled by Professor Cao Hualiang in 1999. It includes 28 items and four dimensions (emotional conversation, emotional communication and making friends, dealing with people, heterosexual communication), and each dimension has 7 questions. The scale belongs to self-report scale, which answers “right” or “wrong” according to their actual situation, and evaluates individual interpersonal relationship according to the score. It has good reliability and validity, and has been widely used in domestic interpersonal relationship research. The internal consistency coefficient of the scale in this study is 0.854.ResultsBased on the emotional computing combined with edge computing emergency management unloading network model, taking the maximum processing delay allowed for each computing task as the constraint condition, an optimization strategy of emergency management edge computing unloading was proposed. By introducing convex optimization based on fireworks algorithm, the unloading optimization strategy of co-fwa is established. In order to minimize the total delay of the whole network, the improved fireworks algorithm is used to solve the established model, and the computational unloading decision and resource allocation scheme are obtained. Simulation results show that the algorithm can effectively reduce the total task delay of the network system under the constraint of ensuring the maximum calculation delay of a single task.ConclusionBased on the idea of cognitive psychology and the combination of peace and war, this paper expounds that the emergency management system should be divided into peacetime system and wartime system, designs different emergency management mobile edge computing unloading network models and wartime emergency management mobile edge computing unloading network models, and puts forward the optimization strategy of emergency management mobile edge computing unloading based on the combination of emotional computing and edge computing, Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed computational offload optimization strategy is verified by simulation experiments. However, in this study, only the delay element under the edge computing network architecture is considered, but in practical application, the edge computing server and terminal equipment will also be limited by cost and energy consumption. Therefore, in the future research, the cost and energy consumption of the system will be further considered under the current research framework.AcknowledgementsSupported by a project grant from Shenyang Science and technology plan (Grant No.21-108-9-15) and Supported by a project grant from Liaoning University excellent talents support plan (Grant No.2020).

Design and integration of air pollutants monitoring system for emergency management in construction site based on BIM and edge computing

The construction industry suffers from severe air pollution problems, and there lacks of a unified platform for integrated management of different information formats to achieve effective and rapid pollution detection. Hence, it is necessary to improve the quality of air monitoring utilizing more visible, integrated and intelligent methods. In this context, this study aims to establish a distributed sensor network based on a limited perception range and extended the monitoring information based on the IFC standard to realize the visualization. Then a monitoring system architecture based on edge computing was then established, and a sensor network interface module based on BIM was then designed to realize the fusion of multi-module sensor data. After that, the integrated dataset was developed in the prediction model of pollutants, and the ARIMA model was utilized in the air pollution emergency management platform to predict air pollutants concentration. The results showed that edge computing and BIM can be integratedly applied in a unified platform, which significantly improves the prediction, early warning and emergency management capabilities of air pollutant at construction sites. This study makes contributions to handling and predicting air pollutants issues and promoting the environmental management in the construction sites.

Emergency medicine: past, present, and future challenges

Emergency medicine: past, present, and future challenges

ADERSIM-IBM partnership in big data

This short notes announces the recent development of the Advanced Disaster, Emergency and Rapid Response Simulation Initiative, in collaboration with IBM-Canada. Focus is on the Big Data analytics techniques and the IBM's Intelligent Operations Centre for Emergency Management platform.

Defining a framework for integration of geospatial technologies for emergency management

Geospatial technologies are emerging as one of the most promising environments for development of emergency management framework. Geospatial technologies such as Remote Sensing, Geographic Information Systems and Global Positioning Systems integrated with valuable near/real-time field information can provide a comprehensive platform for emergency management. Satellite imagery, vector database, Location Based Services and ancillary data having the relevant attribute information with access and query tools helps the disaster manager to analyse the required information for relief operations. However, the conceptual design of the database, integration procedures, development of decision support functions and dissemination of information integrating real-time information from the field are very important issues in development framework for emergency management. There are some technological challenges in the emergency response for deriving the required outputs such as damage assessment, evacuation planning, situation monitoring, information dissemination, and coordination of resource and logistic planning. This article provides a framework for the integration of various multi-disciplinary technologies for addressing emergency management.

Crowd Evacuation Simulation Based on WebGIS

In order to improve the efficiency of people evacuation from hazardous regions and reduce the ill effects of disasters, a distributed decision support system for large scale crowd evacuation is proposed. The system is supported by the technology of Web Geographic Information System (WebGIS). Basically, by analyzing the system framework we may acquire a novel approach to establish a distributed large-scale crowd evacuation platform for emergency management. Research results show that the proposed system is useful for devising evacuation plans in advance as well as real-time management under disaster.

A novel emergency management platform for smart public safety

SummaryThis paper proposes an efficient architecture of a smart public safety platform that involves public professional operators as well as citizens. The proposed system is compliant with the emerging paradigm of a smart city. Its main features are that of monitoring, forecasting and managing emergency situations, arising from environmental disasters or crimes. The proposed platform performs a smart and functional integration of heterogeneous components as a smart data gathering and analysis system, a novel professional communication system, wireless sensor networks and social networks. Each element acts not only as an information collector but has autonomous capabilities to cooperate with the others in order to increase the system efficiency and to reduce the need of human interactions. Finally, the paper highlights some open research issues that represent critical aspects and require additional investigations in order to further improve the performance of the proposed platform. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Emergency situations supported by context-aware and application streaming technologies

Emergency Telecommunications (EMTEL) deal with provisioning of telecommunications services in emergency situations; these can range from an individual in a state of personal emergency (with need to make an emergency call due to sudden illness, traffic accident, fire) to a very broad perspective of serious disruptions (earthquakes, floods, terrorist attacks). EMTEL covers the telecommunications needs of public safety resources, like: police, fire–fighters, ambulances and other medical services: such services usually rely on dedicated networks and equipment. We realised PICO (control platforms and delivery of services in converged networks) a platform for service delivery and emergency management on public telecommunications networks. PICO platform leverages on application streaming on Android OS and a context–aware system for fixed–mobile convergence based on IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS).

Logic Analysis of Event-Based Emergency Handling

Event-based emergency handling is a high-efficiency decision process of the choice of emergency information resources, the acquisition of emergency knowledge, and the optimizing arrangement of emergency information resources through the logical relationships between emergencies and related emergency information resources. With the development of emergency rescue theory and computer science and technology, the realization of emergency management informatization and intellectualization is of far reaching importance, on the basis of the establishment of event-oriented handling logical relationships, the construction of emergency management platform, the unified management of emergency information resources and the on-line emergency handling. Centered on emergencies, this paper discusses the respective corresponding relationships of emergency and emergency information resources, emergency knowledge, emergency response plans, paradigm cases, relative laws and a series of decision actions on emergency handling, risk assessment and risk analysis etc. It also illustrates the functions and meanings of the correspondence configuration.

Designing a multimedia platform for emergency management

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe research, the objective of which was the development of models, methodologies, and tools for the realization of the multimedia platform for emergency management in technological systems.Design/methodology/approachThis objective was achieved through the operationalization of the following major tasks: the theoretical research on the specific characteristics of emergency management system structure and processes; definition of educational structures, processes, and subjects for emergency management; development of models and software tools for the analysis of emergency development; development of information (web) services to support the collaborative decision making.FindingsA model of multimedia platform for emergency management in technological systems has been developed, which defines emergency services with appropriate information infrastructure, the structure and characteristics of the interoperability system and their mutual communication.Research limitations/implicationsFurther research should result in: the concrete structure and processes of virtual organisation for emergency management in technological systems; software for the support of collaborative decision making; models for emergency management education and training based on multimedia technologies. The limitations are primarily related to model implementation, since there are no suitable emergency databases.Practical implicationsThe platform can be used by: industrial companies, companies that provide building maintenance, public services, insurance companies, educational institutions, local authorities (by an adequate upgrade of models and software).Originality/valueThis paper presents the information flow identified in emergency management and the structure of a multimedia platform which, by creating favourable environment for collaborative decision making, enables effective and efficient emergency management in technological systems, as well as emergency management education and training.