'What affects me?': a smart public alert system based on stream reasoning

  • Authors:
  • Snehasis Banerjee;Debnath Mukherjee;Prateep Misra

  • Affiliations:
  • TCS Innovation Labs, Kolkata, India;TCS Innovation Labs, Kolkata, India;TCS Innovation Labs, Kolkata, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Public alert services is gradually becoming popular in smart cities because this enhances the awareness of the citizen about activities within the city. Such a service also ensures the safety and security of the citizens. However the state of the art lacks in providing real-time alerts in a personalized, context-aware fashion utilizing the combined knowledge about the city, its events and its citizens. In this paper, a solution architecture is presented that uses stream reasoning as its backbone which suits the domain of a public alert system very well. The stream reasoner uses rule-based reasoning and queries. The rules are designed as atomic concepts. A fully functional prototype of the proposed system was developed and tested on data of a smart city. The experimental results support that the proposed methodology is very effective.