Pervasive Computing, Emergency Response and the Skanderborg Festival

The talk will present the vision of an integrated system to support the multitude of different emergency response personnel during large events (as the Skanderborg Festival) and major incidents. The personnel may be police, fire fighters, security people, alarm central(s), medics, stretcher teams, electricians, etc.

The ambition is to provide a common overview and shared awareness among those groups of personnel, through integrating a range of recent developments within various pervasive computing technologies into a distributed, shared environment and interface.

Furthermore, the talk will present a range of experiments conducted during the Skanderborg Festival, 2008, in relation to crowd control, overview, people counting, distributed access to limited physical resources, etc. as well as present the first results of those experiments.

Finally, the talk will outline the plans in relation to the Festival in 2009.