1. Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Microelectronics Research Group Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona Wireless Sensor Networks for Civil Protection

2. ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007 DEIT, Microelectronics Group Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona Research Activity : System level design for low power systems System level design and performance analysis of wireless networks (Bluetooth and Zigbee) RFId

3. ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Research Activity: Applications using commercial boards on Bluetooth and Zigbee (in cooperation with Freescale Semiconductor) cedar solutions University Spin-off, Ancona

4. ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Applications developed by Intel and IBM: vineyard monitoring natural environment monitoring home automation for healthcare building and bridge structure monitoring videosurveillance Wireless Sensor Networks: application examples

5. ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Low Cost, Low Power (battery operated) Wireless (Bluetooth or Zigbee) Application: video surveillance High data rate on video streaming is necessary for high quality but this is incompatible with low power requirement Low data rate is obtained with local image processing Low power architecture for local image processing Application layer designed for low power video wireless network Applications under development at DEIT: Smart Wireless Image Sensor Key aspects

6. ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007 sensor Local image processing Application layer Power Management Battery RF Smart Wireless Image Sensor Node Wireless protocol Smart Wireless Sensor Node Monitored place Control Station

7. ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Smart Wireless Image Sensor Node Micron Smart Camera demo board Freescale ZigBee demo board Hardware Implementation on commercial demo board (in cooperation with Freescale and Micron)

8. ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007 CRISMAN New Procedures and Tools for the Effective Management of Crisis Related to Railway and Highway Transport EU project on Sustainable Surface Transport: Crisis management and rescue operations (presented on june 5, 2007, under evaluation)

9. ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007 CRISMAN Coordinator DEIMOS Space (Spain): 4 nations, 11 partners SPAIN: Geovirtual, Isdefe, Ergolan, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid FRANCE: Advanteam & Partners, M3 Systems, CGX Systemes ITALY: Università Politecnica delle Marche, CEDAR Solutions (Italy), IRELAND: Trinity College Dublin

10. ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Key aspects Identification and definition of operational procedures for managing crisis related to railway and highway transport: –Resource management –Coordination of emergency teams –Availability of relevant information for supporting the crisis management

11. ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Design and Development of a Crisis Management System Development of a Decision Support System, also available for first responders mobile devices Development of tools for 3D virtual recognition and navigation over crisis scenarios

12. ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Mobile tools for rescue teams to collect and share crisis information in real time with a mobile Control Center (via WiFi, WiMax, …) and via SATCOM with Central Control Center including audio and video capabilities Sensors Network Platform for monitoring injured people and special drivers (driving trains, buses, dangerous goods trucks …)

13. ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Sensor Network SOS fixed station intelligent vehicle crisis area Sensor Network Central Control Center Decision Support System 3D information visualization Crisis Management System Mobile Control Center Mobile Control Center

14. ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Fast and simple installation Recofigurability Self-organization Reliability Integration of heterogeneus sensors. Peculiar specifications of wireless sensor networks for first aid and crisis management

15. ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Biomedical sensors to be applied to the injured persons (ECG …) Environment sensor: presence of fire, gas, gasoline Image sensor Localization information (GPS) Low cost sensor, for example accelerometer inside an intelligent vehicle that in case of crash transmits information to control centers or to other intelligent vehicles. Sensors for Crisis Management

16. ICT and Civil Protection Senigallia, 18-19 June 2007 Possible cooperation with the partners of CRISTMAN project in case of approval Possible cooperation for the development of new EU projects Future Work Thank You