I-Corps: Contextual Communication for Emergency Notification Services

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大幅改进公共安全应急响应系统，从大学或企业校园的活跃枪手威胁，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小组。这一努力的商业影响可能会改变当今的大规模警报市场。计划中的客户研究还将有助于为灵活的情景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，将从根本上促进我们对如何实现下一代互联网的理解，对此进行的研究有助于推动i-Corps项目的底层情景通信技术的起源。i-Corps项目活动建立在情景通信的基础上，这项技术使强大的新移动通信能力能够高度定制，以满足个人用户或群体的需求或偏好。例如，在发生校园紧急情况时，应急管理器可以根据用户的实时位置向特定建筑发送超本地警报，并且可以进一步定制此类警报，以满足被困在建筑中的用户的特殊需求。使情景通信变得实用的基本研究进展源于一个“未来互联网体系结构”项目，该项目表明，将当今互联网中基于名称或IP地址的通信概括为基于地理位置、年龄和特殊需求等任意上下文属性的通信是可能的。研究结果表明，有可能以可扩展(或成本效益)、隐私保护和准确的方式为广泛类别的移动应用程序提供情景通信服务，包括但不限于紧急通知，这是I-Corps客户研究项目特别感兴趣的应用程序领域。

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.