PSAP Computing System for Autonomous IoT Emergency Response
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional IoT deployments and Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) do not fully utilize interconnectedness with IoT-capable sensors, failing to autonomously analyze emergency messages and control devices for effective responses in emergency situations across smart environments like homes, vehicles, utilities, and roadways.
Innovation Solution
A computing system at a PSAP receives emergency messages, analyzes them to determine actions, identifies relevant IoT devices, and autonomously controls these devices to perform tasks, integrating IoT-capable sensors and devices for smart home, vehicle, utility, and roadway functionalities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If conventional IoT deployments are implemented, then basic device connectivity is achieved, but autonomous emergency response capability is lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a PSAP computing system as an intermediary that receives emergency messages from IoT devices, analyzes them, and autonomously controls relevant devices. This mediator handles the complex analysis and decision-making, allowing individual IoT devices to remain relatively simple while achieving sophisticated autonomous emergency response at the system level.
Solution Approach 2:
The PSAP computing system serves multiple functions: receiving emergency messages from various IoT devices, analyzing different types of emergency situations, identifying relevant devices across multiple categories (household devices, vehicular components, utility devices, emergency response vehicles), and controlling them appropriately. This multi-functional approach consolidates complexity into a single universal system.
2Reliability
If PSAP analyzes all emergency messages and controls multiple devices autonomously, then emergency response effectiveness improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the emergency response system into distinct functional modules: message reception, message analysis, device identification, and device control. The PSAP computing system processes different types of emergency messages (fire, medical, security) and identifies different categories of devices independently, allowing each module to be optimized separately while maintaining overall system reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback loops where the PSAP computing system receives status information from IoT devices, analyzes emergency situations, sends control commands, and receives confirmation of device actions. This feedback mechanism ensures reliable emergency response by verifying that control actions are executed correctly and adjusting responses as needed.
3Loss of time
If IoT devices are integrated with PSAP for autonomous control, then response time improves, but interoperability challenges increase
Solution Approach 1:
The PSAP computing system is designed to handle multiple types of emergency messages and control various categories of devices (household devices, vehicular components, utility devices, emergency response vehicles) through a unified interface. This universal approach enables rapid response across diverse scenarios while managing interoperability through standardized communication protocols at the PSAP level.
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AI summary
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing Internet of Things (“IoT”) functionality with a Public Safety Answering Point (“PSAP”). In some embodiments, a computing system located at a PSAP might receive a first message indicative of an emergency situation, analyze the first message to determine one or more actions to be taken, and identify one or more devices (e.g., household devices; vehicular components associated with a vehicle; utility devices; devices disposed in, on, or along a roadway; devices disposed throughout a population area; etc.) for performing the determined one or more first actions. The computing system might then autonomously control each of the identified one or more devices to perform tasks based on the determined one or more first actions to be taken, thereby implementing smart environment functionality (e.g., smart home, building, or customer premises functionality, smart vehicle functionality, smart utility, smart roadway functionality, smart city functionality, etc.).