5G in Emergency Services
I investigated potential uses of 5G for Ericsson, and decided to focus on emergency services after having done desktop research. I proceeded to user research in order to understand pain points of firefighters, from the moment of an alarm to the critical action of diving into fire to rescue civilians. This research led to the development of various concepts supporting the process of firefighting. One of these concepts is explained below.
Firefighters lack a lot of information about the building they enter as well as info about the position and vital signs of civilians and other firefighters. This concept aims to remove some of these pain points by using an augmented gas mask guiding. firefighters during rescue missions. Firefighters get directions to identified victims in AR.
Firefighters can also see vital signs of other firefighters and civilisans as well as other important information about the surrounding conditions.
In this view the AR interface shows directions to a victim that has been identified through connected 5G devices in the building.
The interface changes to show exactly where the victim is.
The firefighter can see that a person is lying on the floor and proceeds to attach a patch to that person's wrist that will stream vital signs to the gas mask interface.
As the firefighters are saving the person from immediate danger they can see the pulse of that person and the directions to the exit in their masks.
This movie illustrates how the augmented reality mask is used.