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6.4. Emergency Response System [Chennai]

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

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