The adoption of smart environments is becoming more and more important in many
application scenarios such as healthcare, asset management and environmental
monitoring. In emergency services, there are also very attractive use cases on next
generation emergency services, presenting challenges that must be addressed in order to
satisfy the requirements of both citizens and emergency service professionals. This chapter
shares two interesting use cases depicting emergencies where the use of telematics and …

The adoption of smart environments is becoming more and more important in many
applicative scenarios such as healthcare, asset management and environmental monitoring.
In emergency services, there are very attractive use cases presenting several scientific
challenges that must be addressed in order to satisfy user requirements, which are mainly
focused on emergency management. The main goal of this work is to share two use cases
depicting emergencies where the use of telematics and smart devices enables improved …