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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Enabled Iot Platform For Disaster Management, Waleed Ejaz, Muhammad Awais Azam, Salman Saadat, Farkhund Iqbal, Abdul Hanan Jan 2019

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Enabled Iot Platform For Disaster Management, Waleed Ejaz, Muhammad Awais Azam, Salman Saadat, Farkhund Iqbal, Abdul Hanan

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© 2019 by the authors. Efficient and reliable systems are required to detect and monitor disasters such as wildfires as well as to notify the people in the disaster-affected areas. Internet of Things (IoT) is the key paradigm that can address the multitude problems related to disaster management. In addition, an unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)-enabled IoT platform connected via cellular network can further enhance the robustness of the disaster management system. The UAV-enabled IoT platform is based on three main research areas: (i) ground IoT network; (ii) communication technologies for ground and aerial connectivity; and (iii) data analytics. In this …