Title: Emergency situations supported by context-aware and application streaming technologies

Authors: Jose Felipe Mejia Bernal; Paolo Falcarin; Luca Ardito; Oscar Rodríguez Rocha; Maurizio Morisio; Francesco Pistillo; Flavio Giovanelli

Addresses: Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy ' School of Architecture, Computing, and Engineering, University of East London, E16 2RD, London, UK ' Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy ' Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy ' Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy ' CEFRIEL, Centre of Excellence for Research, Innovation, Education and Industrial Labs partnerships, Milano, Italy ' CEFRIEL, Centre of Excellence for Research, Innovation, Education and Industrial Labs partnerships, Milano, Italy

Abstract: 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).

Keywords: IMS; IP multimedia subsystems; emergency communications; fixed-mobile convergence; context awareness; PICO; public safety resources; emergency management; control platforms; service delivery; converged networks; public telecommunications networks; emergency response.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2013.054176

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2013 Vol.13 No.2, pp.120 - 131

Received: 02 Apr 2012
Accepted: 06 Sep 2012

Published online: 28 May 2013 *

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