Mission support for emergency operators

Nowadays the high availability of more powerful portable devices paves the way to a new set of applications for a wide range of human activities. One important area of applications is related to road safety services, where human life is at stake. This paper describes an automated mobile system for the support of rescue and safety services personnel, as ambulance crew, fire brigades, and so on. The system is designed to accomplish several goals: to facilitate the rescue mission, to give update to a mission control center, to communicate additional information to rescue crew, to automate mission management. The work described in this paper has been accomplished in the framework of the European project GST.