Cities need strong and resilient critical infrastructure to be able to adapt to natural and man-made catastrophes, as these are dynamic and evolving realities that require systematic monitoring.
Cities have many sensors able to signal the existence of an irregularity: air quality stations, CCTV cameras, fire-fighting systems, e.t.c. However, without interoperability between these systems, and between them and the emergency systems, the necessary responses will not be activated to inform about the urgency of moving firefighting teams to put out the fire and paramedics to rescue the victims and take them to hospital.
The Smart Event Processor is deployed on the network edge close to the location where the raw data is generated. The large amounts of raw data are processed by this component and ultimately will generate complex events and transfer them to a third-party control application running in the cloud.
The amount of data transferred to the cloud/core of the network is highly reduced improving real-time processing performance of the whole system.
Firstly, the sensing data provided by the sensing devices are preprocessed, filtered and stored in a database. Some types of data are time-sensitive, e.g. data coming from accelerometers capable of detecting earthquakes. Other types of data that are more delay tolerant are processed by the data aggregation submodule and later dispatched when a configurable amount of data or elapsed time is reached.
Is implemented based on a Complex Event Processing (CEP) rule engine. The data received from the raw data processor will be matched with rules in the rule database. If the matching is successful, complex events will be inferred and generated to send to the upper application. In some cases, the CEP engine also analyses previously generated complex events (history) to infer certain events more accurately.
Easy, intuitive and comprehensive, the Urban Platform offers city managers and other authorities a global and integrated view of the city by displaying analysed and correlated information on its several verticals, from mobility and energy to air quality and waste collection.
The Smart Event Processing module integrated into the Urban Platform unlocks new use cases and expands the current users it already covers. Urban Platform becomes capable of assisting new critical service providers such as first respondents, firefighters and civil authorities.
The investigation and development carried out by Ubiwhere in UNICRINF have prompted the creation of the Smart Event Processor.
UNICRINF is a CELTIC-NEXT project aiming to identify the remaining post-catastrophe infrastructure and develop the protocols, interfaces, etc to recover in automatic way the telecommunications infrastructure at all layers, core, mobile network, access, fiber, by establishing:
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Effective disaster communication solutions (for a variety of scenarios & use cases) creating an agnostic network in a chaotic environment using the available resources, enabling the communication between all the devices regardless of the operator. A Global integrated platform to monitor catastrophes, create ad-hoc communication infrastructures, communicate with emergency teams and advise citizens, using the available communications infrastructure. |