MES: A System for Location-Aware Smart Messaging in Emergency Situations

Alaa Almagrabi; Seng Loke; Torab Torabi

Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. 9th International Conference, MobiQuitous 2012, Beijing, China, December 12-14, 2012. Revised Selected Papers

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MES: A System for Location-Aware Smart Messaging in Emergency Situations

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-40238-8_23,
    author={Alaa Almagrabi and Seng Loke and Torab Torabi},
    title={MES: A System for Location-Aware Smart Messaging in Emergency Situations},
    proceedings={Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services. 9th International Conference, MobiQuitous 2012, Beijing, China, December 12-14, 2012. Revised Selected Papers},
    proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS},
    year={2013},
    month={9},
    keywords={context-aware messaging and addressing emergency systems spatial information ad-hoc communication ontology},
    doi={10.1007/978-3-642-40238-8_23}
}

Alaa Almagrabi
Seng Loke
Torab Torabi
Year: 2013
MES: A System for Location-Aware Smart Messaging in Emergency Situations
MOBIQUITOUS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-40238-8_23

Alaa Almagrabi¹^,*, Seng Loke¹^,*, Torab Torabi¹^,*

1: Latrobe University

*Contact email: aoalmagrabi@students.latrobe.edu.au, S.Loke@latrobe.edu.au, T.Torabi@latrobe.edu.au

Abstract

Location is considered the most significant element of context in ubiquitous computing. Location information, besides system context information, can offer rich queries for handling information especially in emergency systems. This paper introduces the Mona Emergency System that uses context information in providing emergency services such as sending warning messages to an identified location. MES context information includes actor, danger and point of interest information. This paper describes the MES methodology to obtain and distribute warning messages during emergency situations. MES is a new approach that defines message targets and content using spatial relations.

Keywords: context-aware messaging and addressing emergency systems spatial information ad-hoc communication ontology

Published: 2013-09-24

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40238-8_23