Emergency Situation Management in Smart Cities

As the world's population grows in the next few years, urban areas will have to deal with the strain of hugely growing needs and demands. This use case caters to this field of innovation by demonstrating an alarm manager for emergency situation management in smart cities. In critial situations, the response time of the emergency vehicles that assist people is of outmost importance as a short amount of time can make a big difference.

The deployment of the mF2C architecture in the ESM system in a Smart City scenario provides better reliability and QoS, as well as improving the latency of a response to an alert situation when the software runs on the fog. Morevoer, thanks to the intrinsic redundancy provided by the mF2C architecture, the number of devices installed can be reduced without lowering the quality of the service proposed, so the cost can be reduced (mainly for the hardware), but also for the service as the necessity of hosting on the cloud is also reduced. In addition, the time response to emergency situations will improve if the services are run locally, rather than on the cloud, and the emergency services will ve able to intervene faster.