EAGER: Aerial Communication Infrastructure for Smart Emergency Response

该项目利用了灵活、低成本、无人机携带的宽带远程通信基础设施的早期概念，并研究了其在紧急情况下立即应用于智慧城市的能力。这项工作是为了支持智能应急响应系统（SERS）集群参加全球城市团队挑战赛。通过快速部署宽带通信基础设施，该项目将对消防和其他智慧城市应急响应应用产生直接影响，从而提高急救人员的效率并挽救生命。这种通信基础设施扩展了单个无人机的能力，为智慧城市提供了广泛的新型多无人机应用，并有可能创造新的业务和就业市场。该跨学科项目解决以下技术问题：1)开发网络物理系统（CPS）技术，实现强大的远程无人机对无人机通信基础设施；2)提供WiFi的无人机实用系统设计与性能评估；3)作为案例研究，通过分析和参与消防演习，系统调查其解决智慧城市应急响应需求的能力。项目团队包括一个学术机构、技术公司和政府规划者，他们每个人都提供互补的专业知识和观点，这对项目的成功至关重要。该项目还为学生和社区提供了令人兴奋的跨学科培训机会，以学习CPS技术和全球城市团队挑战赛的成果。

This project exploits an early concept of a flexible, low-cost, and drone-carried broadband long-distance communication infrastructure and investigates its capability for immediate smart-city application in emergency response. This effort is to support the Smart Emergency Response System (SERS) cluster to participate in the Global City Teams Challenge. This project will have an immediate impact in firefighting and other smart-city emergency response applications by quickly deploying a broadband communication infrastructure, thus improving the efficiency of first responders and saving lives. This communication infrastructure expands the capability of individual drones and enables broad new multi-drone applications for smart cities and has the potential to create new businesses and job markets.This interdisciplinary project addresses the following technology issues: 1) development of cyber-physical systems (CPS) technology that enables robust long-range drone-to-drone communication infrastructure; 2) practical drone system design and performance evaluation for WiFi provision; and 3) a systematic investigation of its capability to address smart-city emergency response needs, through both analysis and participation in fire-fighting exercises, as a case study. The project team includes an academic institution, technology companies and government planners, each of whom provides complementary expertise and perspectives that are crucial to the success of the project. The project also provides exciting interdisciplinary training opportunities for students and the community to learn CPS technologies and the Global City Teams Challenge efforts.