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| Author | Henry Agsten | ||||
| Title | Effects of Smartphone-Based Alerting on Reducing Arrival Times for Volunteer Fire Departments | Type | Conference Article | ||
| Year | 2020 | Publication | ISCRAM 2020 Conference Proceedings – 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management | Abbreviated Journal | Iscram 2020 |
| Volume | Issue | Pages | 990-994 | ||
| Keywords | Volunteer Fire Departments; Time Reduction; Inefficiencies; Smartphone Application | ||||
| Abstract | This practitioner paper describes the efforts of a volunteer fire department in Germany to reduce the time to arrive at a place of emergency. It presents the former situation, identifies reasons for delays and highlights the volunteers' first years in utilizing an existing smartphone application for alert and response as a mean to optimize their times of arrival. The paper finally evaluates the effects of the application's usage. | ||||
| Address | Alarm Dispatcher Systems GmbH,Dresden, Germany | ||||
| Corporate Author | Thesis | ||||
| Publisher | Virginia Tech | Place of Publication | Blacksburg, VA (USA) | Editor | Amanda Hughes; Fiona McNeill; Christopher W. Zobel |
| Language | English | Summary Language | English | Original Title | |
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| ISSN | 978-1-949373-27-89 | ISBN | 2411-3475 | Medium | |
| Track | Technologies for First Responders | Expedition | Conference  |
17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management | |
| Notes | ha@alarm-dispatcher.de | Approved | no | ||
| Call Number | Serial | 2290 | |||
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