System-Of-Systems for efficient Emergency Response and Urban Mobility (SoSER)

Purpose and goal

SoSER has developed advanced pre-hospital devices for trauma triage, vehicle-to-vehicle communications for emergency vehicle priority, and algorithms including lane clearance and routing for emergency vehicles for future emergency response. Based on this and a thorough literature study of the system of systems, and considering the convergence of architecture framework, the project conducted architecting practices based on the unified architecture framework. Results have been communicated through journal and conference publications, as well as reports.

Expected results and effects

The pre-hospital diagnostic devices are in production and will improve trauma triage. The emergency vehicle communication device is at the introduction phase which in combination with the vehicle routing and prioritization algorithms will help to reduce the response time. The system of systems concept has received increased awareness in the mobility sector, and the practice of SoS architecting has given us a deeper understanding of the engineering process. Overall, the results contribute to the connected emergency response with continuous integration of emerging technologies.

Planned approach and implementation

The results have been achieved through focused development and collaborative efforts with partners. Chalmers and Uppsala University have developed traffic control algorithms for prioritizing emergency vehicles. The algorithms take account of the pre-hospital trauma devices developed by Medfield and vehicular communication devices by EVAM. The developed algorithms are verified through simulation by Fellowbot and VTI. RISE has investigated system of systems and conducted architecting practices taking into account the results from partners for holistic modeling.