marern3 / iot

IOT

App and Network deployment to allow messaging in crisis

Project about the deployment of a group of drones in which they connect to form a wifi Network that helps people connect with their Android devices and lets them send messages to ask for help or let emergency services about their situation. The project is based in the MQTT (Mosquitto protocol) which allows an intermitent connection, which is helful during crisis where commercial or usual networks tend to be offline.

Flooding crisis

Motivation

Disasters and catastrophes wreak havoc on people, communities, and entire cultures around the world every year. They are expected to increase in frequency in the future, which is alarming. Natural disasters like tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, wildfires, mudslides, or droughts can happen, or they can be created by people (e.g., mass shootings, chemical spills, or terrorist attacks). The behavioral health of individuals and communities depends on their ability to prevent disasters and traumatic events, to respond to them, and to recover from them.

People may react in a variety of ways when faced with a disaster, many of which are normal reactions to difficult circumstances. After a calamity, most people demonstrate resilience. Resilience is the capacity to overcome obstacles and persevere under difficult circumstances. Fortunately, resilience in catastrophe recovery is commonplace rather than exceptional, and people frequently show this ability. supportive tools.

Specifically about floods.

Many people around the world live in zones that are more prone to floodings than others, we have taken the challenge to help all those people around the world that in case of emergency they may need to communicate, and we are aiming to create a system based on a network mounted in drones, to help people connect to send messages through that network in order to let people contact emergency services an to let them know where they are and what they need.

It's a very interesting and important challenge to achieve.

Authors

• @eleazarmeza
• Carolina
• Pablo
• Armando
• Samuel
• Alfredo
• Jenny

Used By

This project is used by the following Universities:

• Tecnológico de Monterrey (México)
• Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (Brazil)

Lessons Learned

What did you learn while building this project? What challenges did you face and how did you overcome them?

🛠 Skills

Python, Azure, Java

Features

• Android APP
• Python code
• Azure Virtual Machine