Abstract
One of the biggest problems that Ecuadorian society and Latin American have to confront in general is insecurity, a condition under which anyone can become a victim. This proposal offers a first step towards linking Ecuador within a new model of security management for smart cities. It takes advantage of new Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including the Internet of Things (IoT), and Cloud Computing. The main thesis is to develop a real-time communications system that would reduce the time needed to rescue kidnapping victims. The local community would be notified of any kidnapping attempts via their smartphones using an opportunistic application and improving the crowdsensing. This network uses the Message Queue Telemetry Transport protocol (MQTT), which is ideal for IoT applications in which energy consumption is an important factor. The proposed architecture has improved previous works obtaining the reduction of rescue time, achieving 30,3 min in advance to them.
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Authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support provided by the Escuela Politécnica Nacional, for the development of the project PII-DETRI-2019-02 “Smart Safe Cities: Un Sistema Genérico en Tiempo Real de Ágil Notificación de Rescate de Personas Desaparecidas Utilizando Comunicación IoT”.
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Zambrano, A., Ortiz, M.E., Zambrano Vizuete, M., Calderón, X. (2020). Crowdsensing and MQTT Protocol: A Real-Time Solution for the Prompt Localization of Kidnapped People. In: Botto-Tobar, M., León-Acurio, J., Díaz Cadena, A., Montiel Díaz, P. (eds) Advances in Emerging Trends and Technologies. ICAETT 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1067. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32033-1_22
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