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<\/p>\nThe final workshop of the EmerGent project was\u00a0held in Salzburg (Austria) yesterday, 14 February. It was part of the annual symposium of the VGBF (the Association for Hazardous Substances and Fire Protection Research, which includes fire officers and representatives of emergency management entities). This year, the symposium focus was on Social Media and GIS. During the meeting the experts tested\u00a0the EmerGent platform with the aim of providing a last feedback before the upcoming final review of the project.<\/p>\n
In order to test the EmerGent platform, an emergency scenario, located in Salzburg, has been simulated. By executing the trial scenario, end users were able to understand the benefits\u00a0that the solutions developed by the project can offer to citizens and emergency services. The platform, developed for Emergency Services (ES), can receive alerts from the related app for smartphone (112.social), as well as collect information about current emergencies from social media.<\/p>\n
The 112.social app allows\u00a0citizens to alert the ES about emergency situations they are witnessing: the alert received by the ES will contain the event location (collected with the GPS service of the device), the description of what is happening, the typology of the event, as well as multi-media attachments (images, videos, audio files). This information allows\u00a0the operators to have a complete picture of the situation and take appropriate actions. The app is also capable of receiving broadcast or private messages from the ES; the information exchange, both when sending and receiving messages, is possible thanks to the use of the CAP protocol.<\/p>\n
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Massimo Cristaldi, IES CTO, shows how 112.social works (Source: Twitter – Iratxe Gomez Susaeta)<\/em><\/p>\n The participants were interested in the<\/p>\n What<\/strong>: Final<\/em>\u00a0Workshop of the\u00a0EmerGent project\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n When: <\/strong>14\/2\/2017<\/em><\/p>\n Where:<\/b>\u00a0Salzburg University, Salzburg, Austria<\/em><\/p>\n More Info<\/strong>:\u00a0http:\/\/www.fp7-emergent.eu\/<\/a> (EmerGent project),\u00a0https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/112Social\/<\/a> (112.social Facebook page)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" During the final workshop, the advisories have tried the EmerGent platform with the aims to provide a last feedback before the upcoming final review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[85,243],"tags":[102,257],"yoast_head":"\nRecap<\/h2>\n