Progress beyond state-of-the-art (SoTA)
The EMYNOS project has produced an open-source working prototype for the emergency services through standardized protocols. To the best of our knowledge, the EMYNOS framework is the only existing testbed that is open source and provides a full NG112 communication chain. EMYNOS has also introduced a combination of WebRTC and SIP achieving the first open implementation of a full web-based emergency client using native browser APIs only.
Socio-economic impact
The EMYNOS project has created positive social and economic impact on the European member states. The assessment is based on the following points,
1. The number of components that were developed or extended
2. Platform neutrality and its integration capability with existing products and systems
3. System scalability and its potential for future upgrades
4. Diversity of targeted groups and the end-users that can be addressed
5. Business potentiality and market exploitation of the individual components
The socio-economic impact of EMYNOS can be summarized as follows,
- A list of EMYNOS socio-economic key components that can be exploited (we refer to D5.2 for more details), including their positioning in the market and the potential competitors (Points: 1, 2)
- APIs that were developed in order to enable Assistive Technologies and products to be extended for supporting the needs of persons with disabilities (Points: 2, 3, 4)
- Demonstration platforms that are available at academic/research partners’ premises (i.e. Fraunhofer Fokus, and TEIC), offering experimentation and test-bed facilities to potential end-users, as well as consultancy services (Points: 2, 5)
- Integration of EMYNOS socio-economic components with ready available systems provided by EMYNOS SMEs partners (i.e. Harpo and MCS), in order to add new offerings to their portfolios (Points: 2, 3, 5)
- Turksat is further investigating the integration of the EMYNOS framework with their eGov App and how it could be monetized (Points: 2, 3, 5)
The EMYNOS project has also created positive social effects on European member states especially that,
- It raised awareness about NG112 adoption. Indeed, the components produced by EMYNOS were integrated at ARC and STS premises, for performance evaluation tests and for demonstrating to the public how NG112 services look like. From these show-cases, it was clear that there is,
. definitely a need for other media types (video, text)
. a need for video in one direction only
. a need for better location accuracy
- Showed the importance of including new media types in emergency communication and identified the need of integrating them with social media platforms (outcomes of a meeting with the emergency community at the EENA conference and the Madrid workshop).
- Proved that backwards compatibility with legacy systems is feasible, especially when EMYNOS components are integrated with existing PSAP operation systems that are capable of receiving IP based emergency calls
- Showed the capacity of EMYNOS in accommodating people with disabilities requirements for accomplishing emergency calls. More specifically, partner Harpo has extended its solutions to enable emergency calls to the persons with disabilities. Results from this pilot indicated that the shown functionalities were positively perceived by the end users since they are easy to use, and increase the feeling of safety and comfort.
