A Study on the Usage of Smartphone Apps in Fire Scenarios - Comparison between GDACSmobile and SmartRescue Apps

Parvaneh Sarshar, Vimala Nunavath, Jaziar Radianti

2015

Abstract

In this paper, we present a thorough overview of the two recently developed applications in the field of emergency management. The applications titled GDACSmobile and SmartRescue are using mobile app and smartphone sensors as the main functionality respectively. Furthermore, we argue the differences and similarities of both applications and highlight their strengths and weaknesses. Finally, a critical scenario for fire emergency in a music festival is designed and the applicability of the features of each application in supporting the emergency management procedure is discussed. It is also argued how the aforementioned applications can support each other during emergencies and what the potential collaboration between them can be.

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Sarshar P., Nunavath V. and Radianti J. (2015). A Study on the Usage of Smartphone Apps in Fire Scenarios - Comparison between GDACSmobile and SmartRescue Apps . In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-097-0, pages 469-474. DOI: 10.5220/0005466304690474


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis15,
author={Parvaneh Sarshar and Vimala Nunavath and Jaziar Radianti},
title={A Study on the Usage of Smartphone Apps in Fire Scenarios - Comparison between GDACSmobile and SmartRescue Apps},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2015},
pages={469-474},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005466304690474},
isbn={978-989-758-097-0},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - A Study on the Usage of Smartphone Apps in Fire Scenarios - Comparison between GDACSmobile and SmartRescue Apps
SN - 978-989-758-097-0
AU - Sarshar P.
AU - Nunavath V.
AU - Radianti J.
PY - 2015
SP - 469
EP - 474
DO - 10.5220/0005466304690474