TY - GEN
T1 - Crowdsourcing for public safety
AU - Goncalves, Allan
AU - Silva, Carlos
AU - Morreale, Patricia
AU - Bonafide, Jason
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - With advances in mobile technology, the ability to get real-time geographically accurate data, including photos and videos, becomes integrated into daily activities. Businesses use this technology edge to stay ahead of their competitors. Social media has made photo and video sharing a widely accepted and adopted behavior. This real-time data and information exchange, crowdsourcing, can be used to help first responders and personnel in emergency situations caused by extreme weather such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and snow storms. Using smartphones, civilians can contribute data and images to the recovery process and make it more efficient, which can ultimately save lives and decrease the economic impact caused by extreme weather conditions.
AB - With advances in mobile technology, the ability to get real-time geographically accurate data, including photos and videos, becomes integrated into daily activities. Businesses use this technology edge to stay ahead of their competitors. Social media has made photo and video sharing a widely accepted and adopted behavior. This real-time data and information exchange, crowdsourcing, can be used to help first responders and personnel in emergency situations caused by extreme weather such as earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and snow storms. Using smartphones, civilians can contribute data and images to the recovery process and make it more efficient, which can ultimately save lives and decrease the economic impact caused by extreme weather conditions.
KW - crowdsourcing
KW - extreme weather
KW - public safety
KW - real-time network data
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84902499445&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/SysCon.2014.6819235
DO - 10.1109/SysCon.2014.6819235
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84902499445
SN - 9781479920877
T3 - 8th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference, SysCon 2014 - Proceedings
SP - 50
EP - 56
BT - 8th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference, SysCon 2014 - Proceedings
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 8th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference, SysCon 2014
Y2 - 31 March 2014 through 3 April 2014
ER -