Paper Info
Title
Architecture for Drone Assisted Emergency Ad-hoc Network for Disaster Rescue Operations
Abstract
In a disaster situation, the first 72 hours are very critical but most of times, the first responders are not able to contact those affected immediately. This can be due to lack of connectivity and communication in a disaster situation or due to network overloads or disasters taking place in a remote inaccessible area. The need for a reliable communication between those affected and those in line to rescue is of paramount importance. Traditional emergency communication methods prove to be efficient but they take at least 5 hours to fully establish, due to which the rescue operation is delayed. Nowadays, drones are used to survey the disaster situation and plan rescue operations. If the drones can be repurposed to provide a reliable communication network, it will help enabling the communication between responders and victims. This paper proposes a Ubiquity Network (UbiQNet) Architecture where drones are capable of forming a mesh network, and by using this the victims can communicate their situation and location to the responders. An ESP based system on chip is used along with a DJI drone to enable UbiQNet architecture. A communication algorithm to determine the neighbouring first responder nodes is also explained. This paper also demonstrates a mobile application to be used with the proposed UbiQNet architecture.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/COMSNETS51098.2021.9352814
2021 International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Emergency IoT network architecture,Drone based communication,Ad-hoc network,Rescue Assistance,Disaster Response
Conference
2155-2487
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-9128-7
1
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Siddarth Ganesh110.34
Vaishnavi Gopalasamy210.34
N. B. Sai Shibu312.03