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.

这个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场景中显着改善公共安全的应急响应系统，这些场景包括大学或企业校园中的主动射击威胁，涉及消防或警察部门的紧急情况，室内医院建筑或室外环境中的医疗响应团队。这一努力的商业影响是可能改变今天的大众警报市场。计划中的客户研究还将有助于为敏捷上下文通信提供信息并增强底层网络和分布式系统技术，从长远来看，从根本上提高我们对如何实现下一代互联网的理解，对该研究的研究有助于推动I-Corps项目的底层上下文通信技术的起源。一种能够实现强大的新的移动的通信能力的技术，所述通信能力对于各个用户或组的需要或偏好是高度可定制的。例如，在校园紧急情况下，紧急情况管理员可以根据用户的实时位置向特定建筑物发送超本地警报，并且可以根据被困在建筑物中的用户的特殊需求进一步定制此类警报。使上下文通信实用化的基础研究进展起源于“未来互联网架构”项目，该项目表明，可以将当今互联网中基于名称或IP地址的通信推广到基于任意上下文属性（如地理位置，年龄和特殊需求）的通信。研究结果表明，有可能提供上下文通信服务的可扩展性（或成本效益），隐私保护，和准确的方式为广泛的一类移动的应用程序，包括但不限于紧急通知，特别感兴趣的应用领域，这个I-Corps的客户研究项目。