Title:
Social networks and IoT for emergency and disaster management
Short Description and Focus of Chapter:
Social Networking Services and the Internet of Things are nowadays full and strong components of day-to-day life all around the world. Both are allowing communicating with others 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 52 weeks a year without distance limitations. During the last decade, disaster-related first reports have been shared on social media by on-site citizens and governments are using the same frameworks for delivering up-to-date follow-up directives. Moreover, monitoring patients and systems behavior in real-time over the Internet allows detecting more or less critical anomalies which must be managed as an emergency situation. In this chapter, we discuss these two technology families (Social Networking Services and the Internet of Things), their relationships, and how they are indispensable and new pillars for efficiently handling to information-flow of emergencies and disasters related events.
Corresponding Author:
Dr. Arriel Benis
Position/Affiliation:
Senior Lecturer and Head of Business Intelligence and Automation Laboratory, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
Short Biography:
Dr. Arriel Benis is a senior staff at the Faculty of Technology Management at the Holon Institute of Technology, Isra-el. Dr. Arriel Benis is the head of the “Business Intelligence and Automation” (BIA) laboratory and co-heading the “In-dustrial Automation and Internet of Things” (IIoT) laboratory. BIA and IIoT are collaborating with the AFRAN Israeli Cen-ter for Disaster Reduction. Dr. Benis holds a PhD in Medical Informatics and his research is data-driven, real-world ori-ented, and Decision Support focused. His main fields of interests main is Artificial Intelligence from the Data Sci-ence, Automation and Knowledge Engineering perspec-tives, and its applications to Healthcare, Social Networks, Industry, and Emergency Management. For several years, Dr. Arriel Benis served as a Senior Researcher and Princi-pal Investigator in different organizations in the fields of Public Health and Social Media. Additionally, he has been involved in different roles in Emergency Medi-cal Services (EMS).
Submission Status of Book Chapter:
Abstract: submitted
Draft: submitted
Final Version: submitted
