Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007

Microelectronics Research GroupUniversità Politecnica delle Marche,

Ancona

Wireless Sensor Networks for Civil Protection

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DEIT, Microelectronics GroupUniversità Politecnica delle Marche,

Ancona

Research Activity :

• System level design for low power systems

• System level design and performance analysis of wireless networks (Bluetooth and Zigbee)

• RFId

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Research Activity:

• Applications using commercial boards on Bluetooth and Zigbee (in cooperation with Freescale Semiconductor)

cedar solutionsUniversity Spin-off, Ancona

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Applications developed by Intel and IBM:

• vineyard monitoring

• natural environment monitoring

• home automation for healthcare

• building and bridge structure monitoring

• videosurveillance

Wireless Sensor Networks:

application examples

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• Low Cost, Low Power (battery operated)

• Wireless (Bluetooth or Zigbee)

• Application: video surveillance

• High data rate on video streaming is necessary for high quality but this is incompatible with low power requirement

• Low data rate is obtained with local image processing

• Low power architecture for local image processing

• Application layer designed for low power video wireless network

Applications under development at DEIT: Smart Wireless Image Sensor

Key aspects

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sensor

Local image processing

Application layer

Power Management

BatteryRF

Smart Wireless Image Sensor Node

Wireless protocol

Smart Wireless Sensor Node

Monitored place

Control Station

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Smart Wireless Image Sensor Node

Micron Smart Camera

demo board

Freescale ZigBee demo board

Hardware Implementation on commercial demo board

(in cooperation with Freescale and Micron)

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CRISMAN

New Procedures and Tools for the Effective Management of Crisis

Related to Railway and Highway Transport

EU project on Sustainable Surface Transport:Crisis management and rescue operations (presented on june 5, 2007, under evaluation)

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CRISMAN

Coordinator DEIMOS Space (Spain): 4 nations, 11

partners

• SPAIN: Geovirtual, Isdefe, Ergolan , Universidad

Carlos III de Madrid

• FRANCE: Advanteam & Partners, M3 Systems, CGX

Systemes

• ITALY: Università Politecnica delle Marche, CEDAR

Solutions (Italy),

• IRELAND: Trinity College Dublin

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Key aspects

•Identification and definition of operational

procedures for managing crisis related to

railway and highway transport:

–Resource management

–Coordination of emergency teams

–Availability of relevant information for

supporting the crisis management

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Design and Development of a Crisis Management System

•Development of a Decision Support

System, also available for first

responders mobile devices

•Development of tools for 3D virtual

recognition and navigation over crisis

scenarios

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•Mobile tools for rescue teams to collect and

share crisis information in real time with a

mobile Control Center (via WiFi, WiMax, …)

and via SATCOM with Central Control Center

including audio and video capabilities

•Sensors Network Platform for monitoring

injured people and special drivers (driving

trains, buses, dangerous goods trucks …)

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Sensor Network

SOS fixed station

intelligent vehicle

crisis area

Sensor NetworkCentral Control Center

Decision Support System3D information visualization

Crisis Management System

Mobile Control Center

Mobile Control Center

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• Fast and simple installation

• Recofigurability

• Self-organization

• Reliability

• Integration of heterogeneus sensors.

Peculiar specifications of wireless sensor networks

for first aid and crisis management

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• Biomedical sensors to be applied to the injured persons (ECG …)

• Environment sensor: presence of fire, gas, gasoline

• Image sensor

• Localization information (GPS)

• Low cost sensor, for example accelerometer inside an intelligent vehicle that in case of crash transmits information to control centers or to other intelligent vehicles.

Sensors for Crisis Management

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• Possible cooperation with the partners of “CRISTMAN” project in case of approval

• Possible cooperation for the development of new EU projects

Future Work

Thank You