he future of 911 is when your grandmother’s implanted heart monitor detects an
arrhythmia and summons paramedics to her house before she even knows there is a problem. It’s when a car relies on its computerized telemetry system to communicate data about a car crash after a teenage driver hits a tree in the middle of the night. The data generated by the car crash suggests a high likelihood of severe injury, so a helicopter is automatically dispatched along with ground-based EMS for faster transport to the nearest trauma center. In the future, 911 will receive photos and videos provide those images to the smartphone of the police officer responding to the scene. These examples illustrate the current and future capabilities of themobile- and digital-adapted, internet protocol (IP)-based 911 systemnowbeing built, calledNext Generation 911 (NG911). directly froma home security systemduring a home invasion and
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