Design and development of IoT based comprehensive system for emergency assistance

Abstract

For any society to make significant unabridged progress, it is imperative to utilize technical skills or otherwise, and ensure personal safety before anything else. This includes reducing the time of response to an accident to the minimum, among other things. The development of the Internet of Things (IoT) Based Emergency Response system is an attempt towards minimizing the response time of essential emergency services such as ambulance services provided by hospitals and fire stations and police services. By approaching this issue, we are also hoping to reduce rates of casualty and injuries occurring to people involved in household fire and road accidents in the longer run. The system is fully automated to be able to send emergency notifications to nearby hospital, police station or fire station and an emergency contact in case of an accident. This is done via a combination of a device that has to be installed in the vehicle or/and in the home of the consumer and a remote server system that responds to the device accordingly. The motive is to provide the live location of the accident and measure the severity of the damage caused so that the appropriate degree of help can be provided as fast and efficiently as possible using routes with the lowest traffic congestion. We believe this system will reduce the response time of service providers after accidents and, in the process, bring down casualty rates in a society.