Real-time Emergency Response Using Semantic Web Technology
Dec 3, 2012 3323 views 
The incidents that Fire Fighters are being dispatched to are by nature unpredictable. This means that their information demand will change from occasion to occasion and timely as well. Netage.nl started developing and deploying small scale Semantic Technology based solutions at Fire Department Amsterdam-Amstelland. The agile nature of the Semantic Web allowed to create simple solutions to answer the questions that were really asked by the operational personnel. Today more than 15 Fire Stations in the greater Amsterdam area use real time Linked Open Data to supply their Fire Fighters with information. Started with small operational questions, development is slowly moving towards meeting the national paradigm shift on public fire safety. This endeavor has not been unnoticed and resulted in national and international partnerships to promote and implement the ideas outside Amsterdam as well.