Deployable Communication System using IoT for Public Safety
Details
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Abstract
The University of North Texas formed an action cluster in collaboration with several other private, public, volunteer, and Government agencies including Pennsylvania State University, Lone Star UAS Center of Excellence and Innovation, Civil Air Patrol, City of Denton, Virtual Network Communications, IoT+LTE Consulting LLC, AirRobot, and Unmanned Experts with the purpose of developing an innovative solution for enabling communications and information sharing during emergencies and disaster recovery times. The action cluster designed and developed an “Integrated Deployable Communication and Incident Command System”. This system has been demonstrated during the annual Global City team Challenge exhibitions three times since 2015.
Global City Team Challenge – Event Details
The Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) is a collaborative platform enabling local governments, nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, technologists, and private corporations from all over the world to form project teams, or “Action Clusters”, in order to work on groundbreaking Internet of Things (IoT) applications within the smart city environment.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and US Ignite have teamed up with the Department of Transportation (DoT), National Science Foundation (NSF), International Trade Administration (ITA), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Department of Energy (DoE) to advance practical applications of cyber-physical systems. Through the GCTC, more than 100 forward-looking cities and communities have partnered with private organizations, universities and not-for-profit organizations to accelerate the deployment of IoT technologies designed to address some of the most pressing challenges facing local communities.
We'll also briefly hear from Eric Brunner, who recently completed a prototype of a thin (micrometer scale), light-weight, plastic flex sensor.
Speaker
Kamesh Namuduri (https://electrical.engineering.unt.edu/people/kamesh-namuduri) is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of North Texas. His research interests include Information Security and Signal/Image and Video Processing and Communications. More recently, he is engaged in emergency/public safety communications and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). He is the Chair for the IEEE P1920.1 Working Group that is currently developing standards for aerial communications and networks. He is co-editor for a recently published book on “UAV Networks and Communications” by the Cambridge University Press. He is an active member of UAA Traffic Management (UTM) and National Public Safety Telecommunication Research.
Professor Namuduri is pictured above testing mobile cellular service with a drone team in Waxahachie.
Agenda
11:30-11:45 Check-In, networking
11:45-11:50 Announcements
11:50-12:00 Eric Brunner
12:00-12:45 Kamesh Namuduri
12:45 Closing comments, Networking