
RESCUER’s Goals & Components
The RESCUER solution will be composed of four main components:
Mobile Crowdsourcing Solution
Mobile Crowdsourcing Solution
whose goal is to support eyewitnesses (including first responders) and formal responders in providing the command centre with information about emergency situations, taking into account the different types of smartphones that might be used and how people interact with smartphones under stress. We will investigate two types of information gathering, either without user interaction (when information is automatically collected from the mobile devices) and with user interaction (when users provide reports of the incidents with text, photos and videos). We will consider suitable context-sensitive mechanisms for eyewitnesses and operational forces carrying mobile devices to provide relevant information to the command and control centre without risking adverse consequences to life and property.Data Analysis Solutions
Data Analysis Solutions
which include approaches for integrating data from different operational forces as well as for combining, filtering, and analysing crowdsourcing information mashed up with open data. It is composed by several modules, such as: 1) the Data Fusion and Filtering Component, which is a pre-processing module that classifies, aggregates and enhances the raw data acquired through the Mobile Crowdsourcing Solution, unifying terminology and prioritizing relevant information, considering different data quality factors; 2) the Data Analysis, whose goal is to provide multimedia descriptions of crisis situations by means of analytical techniques that deal with images, videos and texts to semi-automatically detect situations such as fire, smoke, explosion and crowd; 3) the Data Integration, which provides an interoperable solution to allow the RESCUER system integration with existing systems, used by command centres and operational forces, including dealing with different vocabularies; and 4) the Data Usage Control, which includes an analysis of the required policies that can be defined to guarantee the aspects of security and confidentiality of the data managed by RESCUER, either public or private.