A Real Time Web Based Electronic Triage, Resource Allocation And Hospital Dispatch System For Emergency Response, Venkata Srihari Inampudi

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

Disasters are characterized by large numbers of victims and required resources, overwhelming the available resources. Disaster response involves various entities like Incident Commanders, dispatch centers, emergency operations centers, area command and hospitals. An effective emergency response system should facilitate coordination between these various entities. Victim triage, emergency resource allocation and victim dispatch to hospitals form an important part of an emergency response system. In this present research effort, an emergency response system with the aforementioned components is developed.

Triage is the process of prioritizing mass casualty victims based on severity of injuries. The system presented in this thesis is a …

A Real Time Indoor Navigation And Monitoring System For Firefighters And Visually Impaired, Siddhesh R. Gandhi

Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014

ABSTRACT

A REAL TIME INDOOR NAVIGATION AND MONITORING SYSTEM FOR FIREFIGHTERS AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED

MAY 2011

SIDDHESH RAJAN GANDHI

M.S. E.C.E, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST

Directed by: Professor Aura Ganz

There has been a widespread growth of technology in almost every facet of day to day life. But there are still important application areas in which technology advancements have not been implemented in a cost effective and user friendly manner. Such applications which we will address in this proposal include: 1) indoor localization and navigation of firefighters during rescue operations and 2) indoor localization and navigation for the blind and …