TwiddleNet: Smartphones as Personal Content Servers for First Responders

Authors:
Gurminder Singh;Dirk Ableiter
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA 93943;Department of Computer Science, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, USA 93943
Venue:
Mobile Response
Year:
2009

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Abstract

TwiddleNet uses smartphones as personal servers to enable instant content capture and dissemination for first-responders. It supports the information sharing needs of first responders in the early stages of an emergency response operation. In TwiddleNet, content, once captured, is automatically tagged and disseminated using one of the several networking channels available in smartphones. TwiddleNet pays special attention to minimizing the equipment, network set-up time, and content capture and dissemination effort. It can support small teams of emergency responders in the first 48-72 hours of an emergency response by using smartphone-based infrastructure and scale up to handle a much larger number of users with a more robust backend.