Intelligent Sensor Systems for Damage Prevention and Emergency Preparedness
Kawana Fuller
Department of Computer Science, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA
This document proposes advances in wireless sensor webs that would be useful for the activities conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as well as for the Disaster Prevention and Emergency Preparedness desired by the country. With the rapid development of innovative sensors in recent decades also comes the capacity to have a more efficient and effective approach to emergency preparedness and even disaster prevention. A sensor web makes weather trends and data accessible to the general public via the World Wide Web. Modern sensors are also able to communicate with each other to forward information to a base station from which an administrator will be aware of any significant changes that may have occurred. Over the course of time we have been introduced to sensor networks geared toward monitoring, or tracking the state of, weather and the environment, but what if we took that same technology and molded it into something even more useful? We are developing an approach to make these sensor systems intelligent enough to make their own, unaided, decision about the course of action to take given a specific set of parameters. We are using the workflows and grid technology to create a sensor system to methodically decide whether or not captured weather data warrants an action from emergency services. With such a sensor network in place, an extreme weather condition may be recognized in real-time or maybe even predicted beforehand, allowing enough time for evacuation—saving many lives and resources in the process. If successful, the technology may virtually reduce or even eliminate the need for an administrator to constantly monitor the data gathered from the sensors in the field.
ADDRESS, E-MAIL AND TELEPHONE NUMBER OF CORRESPONDING AUTHOR:
Kawana Fuller
PO Box 215
Leasburg, NC 27291
336-597-4263
kawanafuller@gmail.com
PRESENTATION TYPE: Poster
TECHNICAL AREA: Remote Sensing and Satellites
AFFILIATION: STUDENT (Graduate)
CENTER AFFILIATION: ISET
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