IoT4Emergency aims to bring together academics and practitioners who use information and communication technologies to design emergency services.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has changed our approach to safety systems by connecting sensors and providing real-time data to managers and endangered people in emergencies, such as fires, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and even overcrowding. Furthermore, the situation regarding COVID-19 presents an unprecedented and extended emergency impacting humans’ social and economic life. IoT4Emergency is a venue to gather researchers and practitioners who use information and communication technologies to address issues that happen before, during, and after an emergency.

The workshop covers all areas of emergency management falling in information technologies domain, including Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, and pervasive computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• IoT-based hardware and software infrastructures for emergency handling

• Sensing, networking, processing, and actuation for emergency management

• IoT-based collaborative working during COVID-19

• Social distancing systems for COVID-19

• Humans (people, emergency managers, developers, firefighters, etc) in IoT systems

• IoT-based emergency situational awareness

• Disaster communication infrastructures, technologies, and services

• IoT decision support technologies

• IoT-based microservices design for emergency

• IoT-related HCI for disaster preparation

• Self-adaptation and self-adaptive architectures for disaster

• Quality of Software-oriented disaster management IoT systems

• IoT and social-behavioral analysis of endangered people

• Big data processing for hazards

• IoT-robotics systems for disaster handling

• Remote sensing and cyber-physical systems

• Wireless networks based solutions for disaster management

• IoT-based modeling and simulation for crisis and disaster situations

• Prediction and early warning systems

• Crowd and queue management systems

• Emergency traffic management systems

• Real-world applications and field studies

• Indoor/outdoor emergency evacuation

All accepted papers will appear in the conference companion proceedings indexed by ACM Digital Library. At least one author of an accepted contribution is required to register, present the work, and participate during the discussions at the workshop.

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