A mobile collaborative application to reduce the radio traffic in urban emergencies

Manuel Ibarra, Álvaro Monares, Sergio F. Ochoa, José A. Pino, David Suárez

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A firefighter Incident Commander (IC) is responsible for organizing, coordinating and decision-making in most urban emergencies such as fires or car crashes. To accomplish this task, the IC uses a couple of radio channels for communicating with the Alarms Center (AC, also known as Emergency Operation Center) and the resources assigned to such emergency. Although radio-based communication has brought several benefits, it also has drawbacks for sending, sharing, updating, and saving geospatial information. This paper presents the extension to a mobile collaborative tool called MobileMap, which complements the radio system. The tool helps to increase the availability of the most frequently requested information for the IC and firefighters in the field. The system design was based on a study of relevant information that the IC requires on-site for an efficient and effective decision-making. The results highlight that using MobileMap makes it possible to reduce the radio channels usage time by approximately 20%. Furthermore, the information shared through the application improves the IC decision-making process during an emergency.

Idioma originalInglés
Título de la publicación alojadaProceedings of the 2012 IEEE 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD 2012
Páginas358-365
Número de páginas8
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 2012
Publicado de forma externa
Evento2012 IEEE 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD 2012 - Wuhan, China
Duración: 23 may. 201225 may. 2012

Serie de la publicación

NombreProceedings of the 2012 IEEE 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD 2012

Conferencia

Conferencia2012 IEEE 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, CSCWD 2012
País/TerritorioChina
CiudadWuhan
Período23/05/1225/05/12

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