Using smartphones to detect car accidents and provide situational awareness to emergency responders

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering

Volumn 48 LNICST, Issue , 2010, Pages 29-42

  Thompson, Chris ^a   White, Jules ^a   Dougherty, Brian ^a   Albright, Adam ^a   Schmidt, Douglas C ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT DETECTION SYSTEMS; ACCIDENT RECONSTRUCTION; CAR ACCIDENTS; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; FALSE POSITIVE; GPS RECEIVERS; MOBILE CONTEXT; ON-BOARD SENSORS; SITUATIONAL AWARENESS; SMARTPHONES;

ACCELEROMETERS; MIDDLEWARE; SENSORS; SIGNAL ENCODING; TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS;

EID: 80052703177     PISSN: 18678211     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17758-3_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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