The System

Howdy amigos!!
Sorry for the late post. I was busy working on my BING Maps GPS Coordinator Generator app. Its finally complete (Atleast the basic version. Think you want more in the app? Drop in your suggestions). Check it out here.
So coming back to the point and continuing from where I left my previous post, this is the post where I answer how exactly do I plan to optimize the response time of emergency services. So keeping the problems mentioned in the previous post in mind, the trio devised a solution which aimed at improving the current functioning of emergency services in India.
The stepwise outline of the project:

1. Uniting all the three services under a single phone number differentiated by their extensions.
2. Screening of calls through an automated system.
3. Identification of a vehicle base closest to the emergency site (for example : hospital, police station, fire station).
4. Creating the most optimum route (shortest possible path + least possible traffic) to reach the caller. (path planning)
5. Dedicated lanes for emergency vehicles indicated by LED lights to minimize traffic congestion thus minimizing the time consumption as well.

How this will improve the existing system?

•  Due to a common number, the public need not remember different numbers.
• Human resources required will be minimum (approximately three per control base).
• Since the path planning is already done, the drivers need not spend time in searching for an optimum route.
• Due to the illumination of dedicated lanes, the common vehicles can easily vacate it during the time of emergency and the emergency vehicle can easily traverse the route through traffic.
• Also the illumination will aid the driver in identifying the route.
• Due to use of low cost LEDs and microprocessors, the cost of installation and functioning of the system will be reduced considerably.
• The system can also prove to be a great help in time of acute crisis like terrorist attacks and natural calamities.

So this is what I plan to do in very brief. Coming up more - How much have I accomplished out of the aforementioned points? How much more do I intend to do? How do I intend to do it? How can YOU help me? Stay tuned.
Adios amigos!!

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Howdy amigos!!
Hope you people enjoyed the curtain raiser. And if you didn't, maybe you are on the wrong blog. But if you know you are on the right blog, and still didn't enjoy it, just tag along. There's a lot more in stock for you.
So, this is the post where I officially introduce myself to you, answer the questions - "What exactly am I?", "Why exactly am I?", "What do I do?", et al. Drum roll and... let's begin.

In a developing country like India (where vast population and poor infrastructure come unasked for), it’s important for the emergency services to be efficient and always up on its toes. You can get your money back if the pizza boy doesn’t deliver in 30 minutes but you can’t get back a life lost waiting for the ambulance, nor can you get back your property ashed waiting for the fire truck which was stuck somewhere in the traffic.
During tragic circumstances, when you see someone near & dear to you writhing in pain in an ambulance stuck in heavy traffic, you wish there existed some system which could get the patient faster to the hospital through this traffic or when you see your property burning down to ashes because the fire engine couldn’t locate you in time, you wish there existed some system which could get it to your property fast enough to save it from complete annihilation.

Some news snippets supporting the above statements:

•  “Fire in Heritage Building kills six in Kolkata…..Onlookers say the main cause of deaths was that the fire engines arrived an hour late” ~ DNA India
• According to a research at Christian Medical College, Ludhiana, the most important factor in saving lives in road traffic accidents is pre hospitalization management which includes care in first one hour of the injury.
• Also one of the major causes of maternal deaths is that many women reach heath facilities too late and in such serious condition that medical interventions are not effective.

I aim at improving the existing methods for dispatching vehicles during times of emergency. The emergency services have been classified as follows:

1. Fire Brigade
2. Medical
3. Police

Presently in India, there are a lot of factors which cause a lag in the response of these services out of which the trio (my team) identified and extracted the three major factors which are explained below -

• Miscommunication : Where the emergency is and what is the (optimum) way to get there. For instance: Even in a big city like Mumbai, the contact number for police is 100. On dialling 100 the caller gets connected to the central hub. So for a person living in Panvel (a district in Mumbai), it is difficult to remember the contact number of the nearest police station in that area.
• Lack of co-ordination : There is no central area from which these services are deployed. Also all three of these services have different contact numbers which makes remembering all of them difficult. The ambulance (or any of the 3 emergency services for that matter) network in a city is not co-ordinated and for a medical emergency the ambulance may not be dispatched from the nearest possible centre.
• Traffic congestions : There are no dedicated lanes for emergency vehicles, so they have to share the road with common traffic and thus they get caught up in congestion which increases their response time considerably. Also the common vehicles can’t give way for the emergency vehicles due to lack of a timely prior warning.

Keeping all the above problems in mind, the trio devised me, a solution which aims at improving the current functioning of emergency services in India.

But how do I plan to improve this functioning? How do I work? How are they developing me? What are the hurdles they are facing? What are they doing about it? Can YOU help them? What do they need from YOU? and a lot more questions to be answered in my upcoming posts. Stay tuned.
Adios amigos!