Online Meeting Emergency Notification System
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Solution Overview
Problem
During online video conferencing meetings, users may experience emergency situations such as choking, where they are unable to call for help or provide necessary information like their location to emergency personnel.
Innovation Solution
The system establishes a communication session between user devices and identifies a third user device within proximity to the first user. It then sends a notification to the third user device indicating an emergency, allowing them to alert emergency personnel and provide the necessary information such as the user's location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a user participates in an online meeting, then the user can socially interact with other users, but the user may experience an emergency event and be unable to call for help or provide necessary information
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically detects emergency events through analysis of video and audio data from the meeting, and autonomously notifies emergency personnel without requiring the affected user to manually call for help. The system extracts location information and emergency type automatically, enabling self-service emergency response.
Solution Approach 2:
The online meeting system acts as an intermediary between the affected user and emergency personnel. When an emergency is detected, the system transmits notifications containing location and emergency type information to emergency personnel, bridging the communication gap when the user cannot directly contact help.
2Loss of time
If the user is unable to provide location information to emergency personnel, then the emergency response time is delayed, but the system can automatically extract and transmit location data
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors and analyzes video and audio data during the online meeting to detect emergency events before formal help-seeking occurs. By preliminarily identifying the emergency type and extracting location information automatically, the system reduces the time loss associated with manual information provision.
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AI summary
This disclosure describes techniques for providing notifications about events that occur during an online meeting. For instance, a system may establish an online meeting, such as a video conferencing meeting, for users. While in the meeting, a first user may view video of a second user and determine that the second user is experiencing an emergency event. As such, a user device of the first user may receive an input indicating that the emergency event is occurring with the second user. The system may receive the indication from the user device and verify that the emergency event is occurring. Additionally, the system may then send a notification to emergency personnel that indicates at least that the emergency event is occurring and a location of the second user. Furthermore, the system may send notification(s) to contact(s) associated with the second user that indicate at least that the emergency event is occurring.