I-Corps: Contextual Communication for Emergency Notification Services

I-Corps：紧急通知服务的情境通信

• 批准号: 1738120
• 负责人: Arun Venkataramani
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-04-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1738120&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Contextual; Communication; Emergency; Notification

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project potentially include dramatically improved emergency-response systems for public safety in a number of different scenarios ranging from active shooter threats in college or enterprise campuses, emergencies involving fire or police departments, medical response teams in indoor hospital buildings or outdoor settings. The commercial impact of this effort is to potentially transform the mass alerting market today. The planned customer research will also help inform and enhance the underlying networking and distributed systems technology for agile contextual communication and, in the longer term, fundamentally advance our understanding of how to realize a next-generation Internetwork, research on which contributed to the origins of the underlying contextual communication technology driving this I-Corps project.This I-Corps project activity builds upon contextual communication, a technology that enables powerful new mobile communication capabilities that are highly customizable to the needs or preferences of individual users or groups. For example, in the event of a campus emergency, emergency managers can send hyperlocal alerts to specific buildings based on real-time locations of users, and such alerts can be further customized to special needs of users trapped in the building. The underlying research advances making contextual communication practical originated from a "future Internet architecture" project that showed that it is possible to generalize name- or IP-address-based communication in today's Internet to communication based on arbitrary contextual attributes such as geo-location, age, and special needs. Research results show that it is possible to provide contextual communication services in a scalable (or cost-effective), privacy-preserving, and accurate manner for a broad class of mobile applications, including but not limited to emergency notification, an application domain of particular interest to this I-Corps customer research project.

该I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力可能包括在许多不同的情况下进行大幅改进的公共安全紧急响应系统，包括从大学或企业校园的积极射击者威胁，涉及消防或警察部门的紧急情况，室内医院建筑物或室外设置的医疗响应团队的紧急情况。这项工作的商业影响是有可能改变当今的大规模警报市场。 The planned customer research will also help inform and enhance the underlying networking and distributed systems technology for agile contextual communication and, in the longer term, fundamentally advance our understanding of how to realize a next-generation Internetwork, research on which contributed to the origins of the underlying contextual communication technology driving this I-Corps project.This I-Corps project activity builds upon contextual communication, a technology that enables powerful new mobile communication capabilities that are highly customizable to the needs or单个用户或组的偏好。例如，如果发生校园紧急情况，紧急情况经理可以根据用户的实时位置向特定建筑物发送高局部警报，并且可以进一步对被困在建筑物中的用户的特殊需求进行定制。基本的研究进步使上下文交流实用源于“未来的互联网架构”项目，该项目表明，在当今的互联网中，基于任意上下文属性，例如地理位置，年龄和特殊需求，可以将基于名称或IP地址的通信概括为基于任意上下文属性的通信。研究结果表明，可以为广泛的移动应用程序（包括但不限于紧急通知，这是该I-CORPS客户研究项目特别感兴趣的应用领域）提供可扩展（或具有成本效益），隐私性和准确方式的上下文通信服务。