MeshSOS: An IoT Based Emergency Response System

dc.contributor.author Jain, Bhavye
dc.contributor.author Trivedi, Kaustubh
dc.contributor.author Agarwal, Swati
dc.contributor.author Thakur, Rahul
dc.date.accessioned 2020-12-24T19:48:26Z
dc.date.available 2020-12-24T19:48:26Z
dc.date.issued 2021-01-05
dc.description.abstract Due to the limited mobility and technical knowledge, senior and disabled citizens of the society face difficulties during emergencies. Most hardware/software emergency assistance/response systems available in the market have a complex user interface even for the general public. Requesting help using these systems requires sharing information such as type and location of the event, which wastes precious time to respond to the event. Often, citizens end up handling the event themselves instead of waiting for someone to arrive at the event location. Hence, it is necessary to design a simple but incredibly robust system which bypasses the challenges of traditional emergency response systems. In this paper, we propose an Internet of Things (IoT) based mesh-enabled emergency response system called MeshSOS, which enables senior and disabled citizens to get assistance by simply pressing a button. Use of mesh networking along with WiFi made our system robust to network failures. We have also developed a central monitoring application for healthcare and security agencies to handle emergency events proactively. Initial field experiments and simulations show that our system has the potential to improve the robustness and response time in an energy and cost-efficient manner.
dc.format.extent 10 pages
dc.identifier.doi 10.24251/HICSS.2021.473
dc.identifier.isbn 978-0-9981331-4-0
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/71089
dc.language.iso English
dc.relation.ispartof Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
dc.rights Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject Seniors' Use of Digital Resources
dc.subject emergency communication
dc.subject internet of things
dc.subject mesh network
dc.title MeshSOS: An IoT Based Emergency Response System
prism.startingpage 3903
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