Seminar September 26: Next Generation Emergency IoT Sensors

Developments in technology enable the construction of cheap and accurate emergency sensors. These sensors can provide improved ground truth for models or quantitative evidence to check against trends in social media. By using low power, long range network architectures and appropriate IoT communication protocols extensive sensor networks can be developed at relatively low cost.
Usually the sensors in these networks are assumed to be simple while the intelligence is located in the cloud services that bind them together. However, the devices can be sophisticated. This begs the question of what else can be done with them. In this talk we consider the use of these nodes to provide emergency communication to citizens and also elicit their experiences of previous events. Functional linguistic theory is used to design patterns of emergency communication and elicitation.
 
Date: 2016-09-26
Time: 09:00-10:00
Room: Information Systems's coffee room 1A349
 
Associate Prof. Rodney Clarke is Foundation Discipline Leader (Operations), Faculty of Business, university of Wollongong, NSW. He received his PhD in Information Systems and Semiotics (UoW, AU) in 2000 and a Docent i Informatik (KaU, SE) in 2007.
He is Director of the Collaboration Laboratory (Co-Lab) and Head of the GeoSocial Intelligence Research Group (GSI4URL) at the SMART Infrastructure Facility, UoW. He is also a Co-Director of the Centre for Responsible Organisations and Practices (CROP) and is the Manager of the Business Research Laboratory (BRL) Faculty of Business, UoW.