Emergency Messaging System Location Precision via Intermediary Processing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current emergency messaging systems are limited in their ability to accurately and quickly locate users sending emergency messages, particularly via text messages, and often fail to provide precise location information, which can hinder effective response during emergencies.
Innovation Solution
An emergency messaging system that utilizes GPS technology and mobile devices to determine the location of users sending emergency messages, processing these messages to determine the appropriate response units and sending alerts to both first and second-level response units, while also providing auxiliary information such as live video feeds and building schematics to enhance emergency response.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If GPS technology and mobile devices are used to determine user location, then location precision is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs an emergency response computer system as an intermediary that receives emergency trigger messages from remote computing devices, processes location data, and coordinates with response units. This intermediary handles the complex GPS integration and location processing, keeping the user's mobile device relatively simple while achieving high location precision through the centralized system.
2Reliability
If multiple response units are notified and auxiliary information is provided, then emergency response effectiveness is improved, but information processing complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the emergency response system into distinct levels: first-level response units for immediate local response and second-level response units for broader coordination. This segmentation allows information to be distributed selectively to appropriate units based on emergency severity, reducing unnecessary information processing while maintaining high response effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-establishes communication channels and protocols between the emergency response computer system and multiple response units before emergencies occur. Auxiliary information such as building schematics and live video feeds are pre-configured and readily available, eliminating the need for complex real-time information gathering during critical emergency moments.
3Loss of time
If automated processing of emergency messages is implemented, then response time is reduced, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The emergency response computer system automatically processes incoming emergency trigger messages, extracts location data, determines the appropriate emergency level, and notifies relevant response units without requiring manual intervention. This self-service automation dramatically reduces response time while concentrating system complexity in a centralized automated platform rather than requiring complex interfaces at each user device.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
Enables accurate and timely emergency response by providing precise location information and relevant data to response units, improving the efficiency and effectiveness of emergency services.
Implementation Method 1
utilizes GPS technology and mobile devices to determine the location of users sending emergency messages
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AI summary
Various embodiments concern method of providing emergency messaging service to one or more users of one or mobile electrical devices. The method can include: using a first mobile electrical device to send a emergency trigger message, using the first mobile electrical device to send a emergency trigger message can include: receiving a location of the first mobile electrical device from a global positioning module, the global positioning module running on the first mobile electrical device; receiving a first trigger message from a user of the first electrical device; and wirelessly transmitting the first trigger message and the location of the first mobile electrical device to a emergency response module running on at least one second processor of a first server; receiving the first emergency trigger message in emergency response module; determining a first emergency response unit associated with the first location of the first mobile electrical device; and transmitting the first emergency trigger message to the first emergency response unit associated with the location of the first mobile electrical device. Other embodiments are disclosed.