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Emergency Response System
Disaster Management
Emergency services include the Police, Ambulance, Fire & Rescue, and the disaster management and
rescue agencies. In order to help the authorities concerned to communicate to each other better, and to
help them take decisions faster, a platform for exchange of emergency alert information is necessary.

C-DAC is developing such a platform, to track the position of the emergency vehicles, to establish
communication amongst officials from various departments, for percolation of messages to all officials
responsible for attending to an emergency etc.

Hence to get information about the geographical
location of the emergency vehicles, GPS is fitted on

to them. The location information thus obtained
can be continuously monitored, either using the
mobile application developed, or on a web browser.

Individual vehicles or a group of vehicles in a zone
can be easily monitored.

GPS based emergency vehicle location tracking

TETRA Communications System for Disaster Management

A mobile communication platform based on TETRA technology to provide a reliable emergency
communication system for the relief and rescue teams operating on the disaster struck area.

The system consists of a vehicle equipped with Portable TETRA Base Station, Telescopic Antenna,

Generator and TETRA handheld radio terminals. It also provides communication link between the
relief and rescue teams operating on the disaster site and disaster managers at remote emergency
control centers with its satellite connectivity.

TETRA is an open standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute
(ETSI) for critical communication. It has rich set of features that are ideally suited for emergency
operations like disaster management. Some of the key features are group and broadcast

communication, dynamic group formation, priority and emergency calling, ambience listening,
individual/group/broadcast messaging etc.