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A ZigBee Based Architecture for Public Safety Communication in Hurricane Scenario

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Communication failure due to a power outage and infrastructure breakdown is a common phenomenon during the hurricane scenario, which hampers the post-disaster rescue operation. For this, an alternative and effective communication infrastructure are needed which can be deployed instantly with limited resources. As such, this paper proposes a ZigBee based ad-hock communication infrastructure for hurricane and post-hurricane scenarios. In this architecture, ZigBee based hop-to-hop communication will be used to communicate among the rescue team and victims, which can be powered by energy sources such as car batteries. Since each message will contain a geo-tagging, the rescue team can track the location of victims along with the normal communication with them. In addition, the performance of the communication infrastructure is further evaluated during and after the hurricane scenarios as well. Since the ZigBee is a low power device and can use power from energy sources such as a car battery, the proposed communication architecture can be a potential solution for a hurricane scenario.

The work is an outcome of the research supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under the grant RIPS-1441223 and CAREER-1553494.

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Parvez, I., Mekonnen, Y., I. Sarwat, A. (2020). A ZigBee Based Architecture for Public Safety Communication in Hurricane Scenario. In: Arai, K., Bhatia, R., Kapoor, S. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2019. FTC 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1070. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32523-7_34

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