Swiss Hospital Installs GPS-Based Emergency Response System in Ambulances to Save Lives

As part of an emergency response system developed by Switzerland’s leading IT end-to-end solutions provider, SatWork AG, for one of Swiss emergency response and medical organizations, the Waveon 738 is a mobile data terminal (MDT) supplied by InfoWave to offer quicker response to emergencies to save lives.

This project is a pilot test involving five BMW X3 VIP ambulances in a Lucerne hospital in Switzerland. The emergency response system allows the medical organization to locate ambulances closest to the patient's location using GPS facilitated by Waveon 738’s GPS receiver module. The system then sends the emergency response alert to the ambulance with the closest coordinates. By shaving minutes or more off emergency response times, and providing precise location, the chances of recovery, survival and public safety are dramatically improved with Waveon 738.

Waveon 738 offers several communication and interface ports including USB, compact flash, and serial ports to allow the terminal to be easily connected to applications such as navigation software, rear-view cameras, and more.

Waveon 738 has proven to be successful in getting the right response faster to the scene of emergency during the pilot test. With this success, Waveon 738 will be deployed in the upcoming commercial roll-out of the project in 2007.