Internet of Things Infrastructure for Security and Safety in Public Places
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Angelos Chatzimichail 1,*,†, Christos Chatzigeorgiou 2, Athina Tsanousa 1, Dimos Ntioudis 1, Georgios Meditskos 1, Fotis Andritsopoulos 3, Christina Karaberi 4, Panagiotis Kasnesis 2, Dimitrios G. Kogias 3, Georgios Gorgogetas 4, Stefanos Vrochidis 1, Charalampos Patrikakis 2 and Ioannis Kompatsiaris 1
Angelos Chatzimichail 1,*,†, Christos Chatzigeorgiou 2, Athina Tsanousa 1, Dimos Ntioudis 1, Georgios Meditskos 1, Fotis Andritsopoulos 3, Christina Karaberi 4, Panagiotis Kasnesis 2, Dimitrios G. Kogias 3, Georgios Gorgogetas 4, Stefanos Vrochidis 1, Charalampos Patrikakis 2 and Ioannis Kompatsiaris 1
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Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, 57001 Thermi Thessaloniki, Greece
2
Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, University of West Attica, 12243 Egaleo, Greece
3
Technical Department iTrack Services Ltd., 18233 Piraeus, Greece
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Department of Research and Communication e-Trikala S.A., 42100 Trikala, Greece
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
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Current address: Centre for Research and Technology Thessaloniki, 6th Km Charilaou-Thermi Road, 57001 Thermi Thessaloniki, Greece.
Information 2019, 10(11), 333; https://doi.org/10.3390/info10110333
Received: 30 September 2019 / Revised: 15 October 2019 / Accepted: 22 October 2019 / Published: 28 October 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue IoT Applications and Industry 4.0)
We present the technologies and the theoretical background of an intelligent interconnected infrastructure for public security and safety. The innovation of the framework lies in the intelligent combination of devices and human information towards human and situational awareness, so as to provide a protection and security environment for citizens. The framework is currently being used to support visitors in public spaces and events, by creating the appropriate infrastructure to address a set of urgent situations, such as health-related problems and missing children in overcrowded environments, supporting smart links between humans and entities on the basis of goals, and adapting device operation to comply with human objectives, profiles, and privacy. State-of-the-art technologies in the domain of IoT data collection and analytics are combined with localization techniques, ontologies, reasoning mechanisms, and data aggregation in order to acquire a better understanding of the ongoing situation and inform the necessary people and devices to act accordingly. Finally, we present the first results of people localization and the platforms’ ontology and representation framework.
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Keywords:
Internet of Things; sensors; interoperability; ontologies; security; safety
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Chatzimichail, A.; Chatzigeorgiou, C.; Tsanousa, A.; Ntioudis, D.; Meditskos, G.; Andritsopoulos, F.; Karaberi, C.; Kasnesis, P.; Kogias, D.G.; Gorgogetas, G.; Vrochidis, S.; Patrikakis, C.; Kompatsiaris, I. Internet of Things Infrastructure for Security and Safety in Public Places. Information 2019, 10, 333.
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