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The European Telecommunications Standards Institute recently examined the potential use of IoT devices in emergency situations, as well as the state of standards development for such use.
ETSI identified a number of use cases in which IoT devices could play a role in emergency situations. Five of those applications for IoT in public safety were:
Emergency calling. ETSI outlined two IoT-driven emergency calling use cases. In one, a smoke detector in a remote location, such as a forest or an isolated facility, could send an automated emergency call to a public safety answering point if it detected a fire – and possibly, depending on the device, provide real-time video from the scene.
Alternatively, that type of emergency message to a PSAP could also be initiated by an IoT service platform operator, rather than by the device directly, with a human making the emergency call based on information from one or more IoT devices.
