The Rising Role of Big Data Analytics and IoT in Disaster Management Recent Advances Taxonomy and Prospects

The authors explore how big data analytics (BDA) and the Internet of Things (IoT) can be used to bolster communications and decision making among emergency responders and authorities during disasters. The authors develop a thematic taxonomy of different BDA and IoT tools to manage and analyze data for disaster management (Figure 3), propose a BDA and IoT-based disaster management reference model (Figure 4), and identify research gaps in the field which should be addressed in the future.