Abstract | ||
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At present, in a search and rescue (SAR) operation with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), a camera-based function would be most promising. The camera-based function provides useful visual information via an aerial video, but it may be insufficient for the SAR operation due to some limitations, e.g., a missing person exists out of the shooting range. In the paper, in addition to the camera-based function, we propose to utilize an aerial Wi-Fi sensing function (Wi-SF) to enhance the effectiveness of a SAR operation. Wi-SF captures Wi-Fi beacons broadcast from Wi-Fi terminals, e.g., smartphone and handheld game console, which a missing person carries, and it displays the spots where Wi-SF captured the Wi-Fi beacons. Then, the information helps practitioners to estimate a possible area where the person exists. Experimental results showed that Wi-SF could capture Wi-Fi beacons at the altitude of 100 m in an open space, while the sensing performance at a house and in a debris area was limited to the altitude of below 30 m. Also, we demonstrated that practitioners could estimate the possible area of a missing person in a woods through the Wi-Fi sensing information in a mock SAR operation trial. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2019 | 10.1109/GHTC46095.2019.9033073 | 2019 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC) |
Keywords | DocType | ISSN |
Wi-Fi,Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV),Sensing,Beacon,Probe request,Nintendo 2DS,Search and rescue operation | Conference | 2377-6919 |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-7281-1781-2 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
3 | 8 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Shigeru Kashihara | 1 | 0 | 1.35 |
Atsushi Yamamoto | 2 | 0 | 1.01 |
Kenta Matsuzaki | 3 | 0 | 1.01 |
Kosei Miyazaki | 4 | 0 | 1.01 |
Tomoya Seki | 5 | 0 | 1.01 |
Go Urakawa | 6 | 0 | 1.35 |
Masahiro Fukumoto | 7 | 27 | 5.12 |
Chikara Ohta | 8 | 50 | 15.51 |