Internet of Things-Based Emergency Response Management

Disaster leads to huge destruction in terms of economic and human lives. While several technologies are available to cater disaster's occurrence, the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm has opened a promising door toward dealing with disasters. This article proposes IoT-based emergency response management, which is a standalone system that enables wireless connection to trapped survivors, and to the Internet or any extended network during emergency relief operations. The system integrates heterogeneous wireless devices and various communicating technologies to enable end-to-end network connectivity, which is monitored by a cloud IoT platform. The collected data is then pushed to the control center using multi hop device-to-device communication. The overall system performance was evaluated according to relevant metrics including end-to-end link quality estimation, throughput, and delay.