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GEOFARGIS-based Emergency SOS systemfor Faster Accident Relief

Sandip Gangakhedkar

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GEOFARGIS-based Emergency SOS systemfor Faster Accident Relief The Problem

Cr

In the year 2011, there were

440,000casualties

136,000 deaths$57 billion loss to GDPdue to road accidents

1 person dies every4 minuteson Indian roads

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GEOFARGIS-based Emergency SOS systemfor Faster Accident Relief The Problem

Societal- Lack of enforcement of driving laws

- Absence of legal machinery to penalizeaccident perpetrators

- No best-practices coupled with low awareness

Infrastructu- Poorly built and narrow

- Lack of adequate emergen

- Absence of national emerge

Geographical- Low accessibility in difficult terrain in sub-

Himalayan region, north-east India etc.

- Highly unregulated and chaotic roads due toinherent situation.

Behaviora

- Poor attitudes towards

- Unwillingness to invest in roacost and availability cons

- Public apathy towards acc

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A solutionGEOFARGEOFARis a GIS-based and SMS-enabled emergency alert system

emergency response times and accurately locate accident sites, tprecious minutes and lives.

- Designed for the Indian context, but can be applied to other simenvironments.

- Built using open-source tools and widely available technologies mobile connectivity, GPS (not mandatory) and GIS.

- Statistical engine built into the system for identifying accident hsystem effectiveness and future extensions.

- Aiming for massive deployment and ubiquitous presence


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GEOFAR: How it worksGEOFARGIS-based Emergency SOS systemfor Faster Accident Relief

SMSC1 GEOF

1. SMS is sent from

accident site to a special

number, with or without

location information,

depending on GPS

availability

2. SMS is routed to the

operators SMSC.

GIS dat

3. SMSC obtains user

location from the

operator network (is

absent in the originalmessage) and then

forwards SMS to the

GEOFAR web server

5a. T

serv

eme

beh

the

loca

of th

6a. Emergency services are automatically

dispatched to the accident site.

5b. SMS reply with hospital

contacts are sent back to the SMSC

and routed back to sender.6b. Sender receives contactdetails of nearest hospital to

directly communicate and

provide further information.

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GEOFAR: Why it will w

Low-cost

In a developing economy like India, any advanced high-cost solutions have limited reach as tafford it.

There is zero/minimal extra cost for any of the involved partiesusers, telecom operators, h

Scalable

Indias road network is over 4.2 million kms, the third largest in the world and the fastest grocountries (11 kms added each day). So in order to have a huge impact, any road-safety solut

scalable. GEOFARs technology will combine existing cellular network infrastructure with low-cost pro

services, thus allowing high-scalability.

Ever evolving

The statistical engine running in the GEOFAR servers will constantly analyze the outcome of evaluate the success and failure rates of the system (by checking with the emergency medicallow constant fine-tuning of the system to maximize its operational efficiency.


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Projected ImpactGEOFARGIS-based Emergency SOS systemfor Faster Accident Relief The sheer number of road accidents in Indiaover 440,000 with over 136,000 deaths o

shows that there is tremendous potential for making Indian roads safer.

Public safety research indicates that the ability of emergency response service (EMS) pereach crash sites is a critical determinant of final crash outcome1.

Statistics show that knowledge of the exact location of the accident reduces the respon

teams by 40 % in built-up areas and 50 % in rural environments.

Further research indicates that Accident Notification Time (ANT) is a more critical deter

risk of death than EMS response time2.

In the Indian context where ANT and EMS response times are probably much longer tha

emergency alert system with accurate localization of the crash site can significantly shothe EMS response times.

The GEOFAR system provides exactly these two services: instant emergency alert and ac

is a step in the direction of using technology to build mass-deployed, low-cost and effec

major social problems in emerging countries.

No one knows for sure how many lives could be saved or how many injuries eased by the

ambulance. But no one can argue against a rapid EMS response when lives may be in da

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Implementation plan

PHASE1

- Preparing the GISdatabase ofhospitals/emergencycare centers.

- Enlisting support andparticipation ofhospitals and beginningtalks with operators.

- Identifying technicalrequirements related tomobile and webprocessing.

PHASE2

- Developing the mobileapp.

- Developing the webback-end to processincoming SMS andquerying the GISdatabase to obtainresult.

- Finalizingcommunication chainwith selectedoperator(s) andhospitals.

PHASE3

- Conducselected (MumbaexpresswMumbaiNH-17)

- Rolloutmore nahighway


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What is needed?GEOFARGIS-based Emergency SOS systemfor Faster Accident Relief

Operationssupport

Awareness

Mentoring

Technical experts who can

vision and advice to guide

implementation.Corporate and government

forge partnerships and con

campaigns.

Seed capital to get basic we

infrastructure in place and

and operations.

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