Drones for Civil Defense: A Case Study in the City of Niterói

Carlos Alberto Malcher Bastos, Diego Passos, Diego Passos, Walace Medeiros Barbosa, Yuri Sisino Dos Santos Felipe, Thais Belloti Loureiro, Gilvane Dos Santos Dias, Fernanda G. O. Passos

2022

Abstract

Nowadays, drones or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are employed for several purposes such as delivering products, spreading pesticides on crops, providing internet access to remote areas, and taking videos and photos for entertainment. In the context of smart cities it is not different. Some cities have adopted drones for a number of important tasks, such as surveillance, traffic monitoring, and disaster management. Indeed, their ability of reaching difficult places and the possibility of carrying different sensors and actuators make those devices very flexible tools that can adapt to several use cases. Nevertheless, there are still obstacles — technical, regulatory or even social — that can hinder the applicability of drones to certain tasks. In this work, we report and analyze the use of drones by the Civil Defense Office of the city of Niterói, Brazil, as a case study. In recent years, the office has been increasingly adopting drones for automatizing or simplifying a number of processes with varying degrees of success, and intend to adopt information and knowledge management systems to support and optimize their use. We present a list of the current drone-aided tasks performed by the office, as well some potential applications that are not yet feasible for one reason or another. We further analyze those obstacles and discuss what can be done to address them.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bastos C., Passos D., Barbosa W., Felipe Y., Loureiro T., Dias G. and Passos F. (2022). Drones for Civil Defense: A Case Study in the City of Niterói. In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2022) - Volume 3: KMIS; ISBN 978-989-758-614-9, SciTePress, pages 72-82. DOI: 10.5220/0011552800003335

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kmis22,
author={Carlos Alberto Malcher Bastos and Diego Passos and Walace Medeiros Barbosa and Yuri Sisino Dos Santos Felipe and Thais Belloti Loureiro and Gilvane Dos Santos Dias and Fernanda G. O. Passos},
title={Drones for Civil Defense: A Case Study in the City of Niterói},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2022) - Volume 3: KMIS},
year={2022},
pages={72-82},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011552800003335},
isbn={978-989-758-614-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (IC3K 2022) - Volume 3: KMIS
TI - Drones for Civil Defense: A Case Study in the City of Niterói
SN - 978-989-758-614-9
AU - Bastos C.
AU - Passos D.
AU - Barbosa W.
AU - Felipe Y.
AU - Loureiro T.
AU - Dias G.
AU - Passos F.
PY - 2022
SP - 72
EP - 82
DO - 10.5220/0011552800003335
PB - SciTePress