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Vol: 55(69) No: 4 / December 2010 Wireless Monitoring in a Safe City Using Safe Mobile Units Dorel Nasui Technical Department, American International Radio, Inc., Illinois, Illinois, USA, e-mail: dorel@airadio.net Florentina Andra Oana Department of Automatic Control and Industrial Informatics, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, UPB, Bucharest, Romania, e-mail: florentina.oana@gmail.com Valentin Sgarciu Department of Automatic Control and Industrial Informatics, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, UPB, Bucharest, Romania, e-mail: vsgarciu@aii.pub.ro Keywords: sensor network, wireless monitoring, gateway servers, cloud computing Abstract This paper is aimed to present an innovative and efficient solution of wireless monitoring of a computerized city using Safe Mobile units, based on S4I development platform. For communication, the system is using various networks of vehicular units; these units are able to communicate both with each other and with central gateway servers. Also, Safe Mobile units can contact and be contacted by the central dispatch entity. Safe Mobile exploits the technical and functional characteristics of the units, the result being the availability of various correct and safe communication channels, within the solution. The interface with the end user can be represented either by a client hosted application or by a web hosted application. Both applications receive real-time data from the monitored units and can send out the commands. The applications are hosted in the cloud and are developed using the S4I intelligent platform. In practice, Safe Mobile was implemented in an airport, which was fully equipped with system’s units; the experimental results showed that safety can be assured at establishments’ and city’s level if this solution is adopted. Safe Mobile brings major achievements to the wireless communication in vehicular networks, the most important one being the reduction of the amount of time in which an emergency situation is identified and solved. Other advantages are effective usage of cloud computing features, safe communication channels and last, but not least, user friendly interface. References D. Nasui, F.A. Oana and V. Sgarciu, “Wireless Monitoring System in a Safe City with Safe Mobile”, Proceedings of IEEE International Joint Conferences on Computational Cybernetics and Technical Informatics (ICCC-CONTI 2010), Timisoara, Romania, 2010, pp. 655-658. [2] F. Zhao and L. Guibas, “Wireless Sensor Networks – An Information Processing Approach”, The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Netwoking, Series Editor, David Clark, M.I.T. [3] G. Huang, “Control the Vehicle via GPS Monitor Center”, Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Signal Processing, Computational Geometry & Artificial Vision, 2006, pp. 174-181. [4] D. Nasui, B. Oprea, C. Ene, I. Rancea, V. Sgarciu, C. Tanase and C. Negulescu, “Wireless Monitoring of a Computerized City Using SafeMobile Units”, Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications, 2009, pp. 261-264. |