Ambient spatially-intelligent mobile database critical data, and visual mobile systems for emergency tasks

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Today, mobile wireless computing is vastly expanding beyond the domain of professional businesses. Canadians have witnessed accelerating advancement and applications in compact personal wireless technology and information exchange via mobile databases. While the use of mobile technology is exploding, it has yet to reach the 'intelligence' level to fulfill many of Canadian society's critical needs and essential services. Historically, mobile database technology evolved to ensure the individual's personal mobile connectivity rather than for emergency services mobile connectivity (e.g. police & firefighting service, emergency medical service, disaster relief teams, search and rescue teams, etc.). To date, these key services lack the basic mobile cloud wireless 'smart' connectivity for essential lifesaving information exchange and live video linkages. Currently, critical information is exchanged via radio systems and information relayed is basically audio descriptions and often are found to be lacking important crucial details. In the same manner that mobile phones have become pervasive, wirelessly connected computing emergency response team devices soon will be the norm of any emergency operation requiring cautious coordination. The collaboration between the UofA Electrical and Computer Engineering researchers and Digital Fractal Technologies Inc. engineers will seek to develop the first prototype of a 'smart' contextual data and live video acquisition system. The system will have the capability of searching, sifting, and collecting all relevant information and transfer it onto a mobile display screen of the emergency teams onsite. The developed prototype will be generic enough that it can be used by law enforcement police officers, firefighting services, emergency medical services, disaster relief teams, search and rescue teams, and possibly advertising businesses. This ambient spatially-intelligent mobile database critical data, and visual mobile systems for emergency tasks will be unique to Canada and will be beneficial in improving the emergency services across the country.