Efforts Towards a Digital Twin-based Testbed for Public Safety

In the chaos and high stress of a disaster scenario, first responders’ situational awareness is negatively impacted. This is a significant detriment to the fast response time and quick choices required of them and potentially poses a risk to civilians needing help. One solution to this problem is presenting first responders with relevant situational data collected by sensors in an organized and easily readable format, which can be done with a digital twin. The resulting digital twin, using MQTT to handle data transfer and created with Unreal Engine, would be helpful for both training purposes and real-time assessment. https://dl.acm.org/ccs/ccs.cfm