A Novel Wireless Sensor Network Based Rescue Management System

In case of disaster, search and rescue operations are performed to locate and rescue victims. However, the effectiveness and efficiency of such rescue operations is often compromised because of the lack of availability of information that could help determine the current location of the person trapped in an emergency situation and thus seeking for help. Moreover, lack of feedback from people under threat or those near them further poses problems to timely rescue the victim. Wireless sensor networks utilize the technologies which can cause an alert for the immediate rescue operation to begin, whenever this disaster is struck. The proposed mobile and sensor-based rescue management system would cater to this issue in both situations, one in which there is mobile network infrastructure support and the other where there is no mobile network (GSM/CDMA) infrastructure support.