On October 22nd 2021, EDGE and its AIMES partners, Deveryware and Omnitor, conducted the project’s second pilot, involving Digia Plc, the company that developed the Finnish 112 App, and Finland’s 112 service.
The scenarios created for the Pilot in Sweden highlighted the new capabilities of the AIMES System, enabled by the implementation of the PEMEA technical specifications, which aim to improve the efficiency and outcomes of emergency response efforts. Thus, the second AIMES pilot demonstrated an innovative public alert system in a roaming scenario between Sweden and Finland, in which the new AIMES automatic text translation and cross-border interoperability capabilities were revealed.
The second AIMES Pilot also revealed AIMES’s perspective on automated emergency calls, triggered upon data collected from smart IoT devices and allowing relevant emergency data be shared with the right emergency service. The AIMES Project explores the ubiquitous adoption of IoT sensors and devices to create more automated and self-aware environments, capable of detecting problems, failures or serious incidents, including fires, flooding, high concentration of toxic gases, falls or medical emergencies. The demonstrated prototype illustrated how in two emergency scenarios at home – a fire and an hyperglycaemic episode – the automated emergency calls can save lives when people are unaware of the emergency or cannot contact the 112 service. Without human intervention, the demonstration proved that the AIMES System has the capability to generate automated emergency calls, sending data on the device, the device’s owner, the device’s location and on the emergency detected by the device.
The participants at AIMES Pilot in Sweden displayed strong enthusiasm about the new AIMES capabilities showcased, considering them to adequately reflect the future challenges for emergency services across Europe.