| Title |
E-Health Services Role in a Smart City - A View after a Natural Hazard |
| ID_Doc |
38249 |
| Authors |
Velásquez, W; Munoz-Arcentales, A; Salvachúa, J |
| Title |
E-Health Services Role in a Smart City - A View after a Natural Hazard |
| Year |
2019 |
| Published |
Engineering Letters, 27, 4 |
| DOI |
|
| Abstract |
Nowadays, Smart Cities are attracting much interest of researchers and also in the industry. One of the main reasons is the fact that this paradigm offers vast possibilities for been applied in many sectors like transportation, public service, healthcare, and others. Currently, almost all attention in the academic and business are put into the development of new applications or resources for taking advantage of this paradigm. However, what happens when an unexpected event makes that the smart cities applications work in the wrong way?. This paper states an approach for analyzing the smart cities considering an unforeseen event occurs like an earthquake. For achieving this goal, concrete and consistent exploration of the concepts and techniques involves in smart cities is conducted. As a result of that, several rules that must be followed to overcome these situations are analyzed, allowing to establish a characterization of the services that need to be prioritized inside a Smart Cities. Furthermore, we present some insights on possible solutions for the first prioritized services as e-Health or immediate communication necessity in affected zones to minimize the loss of living beings and maximize the rescue labors. |
| Author Keywords |
Earthquake; Emergency Situations; E-health Service; IoT; Smart City |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) |
| EID |
WOS:000497979700005 |
| WoS Category |
Engineering, Multidisciplinary |
| Research Area |
Engineering |
| PDF |
|