First responders occupancy, activity and vital signs monitoring - SAFESENS

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dc.contributor.authorO'Flynn, Brendan
dc.contributor.authorBrahmi, Imane
dc.contributor.authorOudenhoven, Jos
dc.contributor.authorNackaerts, Axel
dc.contributor.authorPereira, Eduardo
dc.contributor.authorAgrawal, Piyush
dc.contributor.authorFuchs, Tino
dc.contributor.authorBraun, Tanja
dc.contributor.authorLang, Klaus-Dieter
dc.contributor.authorDils, Christian
dc.contributor.authorWalsh, Michael
dc.contributor.funderSeventh Framework Programmeen
dc.contributor.funderEnterprise Irelanden
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Regional Development Funden
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-21T09:50:07Z
dc.date.available2019-01-21T09:50:07Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.updated2019-01-21T09:32:11Z
dc.description.abstractThis paper describes the development and implementation of the SAFESENS (Sensor Technologies for Enhanced Safety and Security of Buildings and its Occupants) location tracking and first responder monitoring demonstrator. An international research collaboration has developed a stateof-the-art wireless indoor location tracking system for first responders, focused initially on fire fighter monitoring. Integrating multiple gas sensors and presence detection technologies with building safety sensors and personal monitors has resulted in more accurate and reliable fire and occupancy detection information. This is invaluable to firefighters in carrying out their duties in hostile environments. This demonstration system is capable of tracking occupancy levels in an indoor environment as well as the specific location of fire fighters within those buildings, using a multi-sensor hybrid tracking system. This ultra-wideband indoor tracking system is one of the first of itsâ kind to provide indoor localization capability to sub meter accuracies with combined Bluetooth low energy capability for low power communications and additional inertial, temperature and pressure sensors. This facilitates increased precision in accuracy detection through data fusion, as well as the capability to communicate directly with smartphones and the cloud, without the need for additional gateway support. Glove based, wearable technology has been developed to monitor the vital signs of the first responder and provide this data in real time. The helmet mounted, wearable technology will also incorporate novel electrochemical sensors which have been developed to be able to monitor the presence of dangerous gases in the vicinity of the firefighter and again to provide this information in real time to the fire fighter controller. A SAFESENS demonstrator is currently deployed in Tyndall and is providing real time occupancy levels of the different areas in the building, as well as the capability to track the location of the first responders, their health and the presence of explosive gases in their vicinity. This paper describes the system building blocks and results obtained from the first responder tracking system demonstrator depicted.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationO'Flynn, B., Brahmi, I., Oudenhoven, J., Nackaerts, A., Pereira, E., Agrawal, P., Fuchs, T., Braun, T., Lang, K.-D., Dils, C. and Walsh, M. (2018) 'First responders occupancy, activity and vital signs monitoring - SAFESENS', International Journal on Advances in Networks and Services, 11(1-2), pp. 22-32. Available at: http://www.iariajournals.org/networks_and_services/netser_v11_n12_2018_paged.pdf (Accessed: 21 January 2019)en
dc.identifier.endpage32en
dc.identifier.issn1942-2644
dc.identifier.issued1-2en
dc.identifier.journaltitleInternational Journal on Advances in Networks and Servicesen
dc.identifier.startpage22en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/7323
dc.identifier.volume11en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherInternational Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA)en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7::SP1::SP1-JTI/621272/EU/Sensor technologies enhanced safety and security of buildings and its occupants/SAFESENSen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Research Centres/13/RC/2077/IE/CONNECT: The Centre for Future Networks & Communications/en
dc.relation.urihttp://www.iariajournals.org/networks_and_services/
dc.relation.urihttp://www.iariajournals.org/networks_and_services/netser_v11_n12_2018_paged.pdf
dc.rights© 2018, the Authors. Published by International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA). This article is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike license.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/en
dc.subjectGas sensorsen
dc.subjectBody area networksen
dc.subjectActivity trackingen
dc.subjectVital signs monitoringen
dc.subjectOccupancy detectionen
dc.titleFirst responders occupancy, activity and vital signs monitoring - SAFESENSen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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