Building Emergency Intelligence
Description
A real-time web platform activated during a fire to deliver information from emergency IoT sensors installed in buildings to assist firefighters and emergency personnel with situational data that will maximize their rescue operations with diminished injury and loss of life.
Inspired by a tragic loss caused by the tsunami that struck India in 2004, I have long been intent on designing a system that can aid rescuers during a crisis. I finally got a chance to focus on these endeavors at ITP, and began the groundwork for what have turned into a startup NGEMS in the fall of 2016.
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