TY - GEN
T1 - 5G-based smart ambulance
T2 - the future of the emergency service in the global pandemic and beyond
AU - Martinez-Alpiste, Ignacio
AU - Alcaraz Calero, Jose M.
AU - Wang, Qi
AU - Golcarenarenji, Gelayol
AU - Chirivella-Perez, Enrique
AU - Salva-Garcia, Pablo
PY - 2020/10/15
Y1 - 2020/10/15
N2 - Seamless connectivity for patients, first responders and health care professionals including medical centres is becoming an important aspect of the quality of emergency medical care. 5G networks and related technologies can significantly improve “care on the go”, assisting first responders and health care service providers by enabling guaranteed wireless connectivity and real time multimedia communications with hospitals in advance of patient arrival. In this article, Ignacio, Jose, Qi, Gelayol, Enrique and Pablo consider the use of network slicing as one of the key elements enabling high quality real time multimedia communication between emergency medical personnel and hospitals. They present a network slicing architecture, and its implementation, as part of their 5G trials for the European project SliceNet, and discuss technical requirements for real time video or information transmission. They also argue that such shared but highly reliable connectivity could make ambulances more intelligent, further enabling emerging tools such as machine learning or artificial intelligence to further improve real time services.
AB - Seamless connectivity for patients, first responders and health care professionals including medical centres is becoming an important aspect of the quality of emergency medical care. 5G networks and related technologies can significantly improve “care on the go”, assisting first responders and health care service providers by enabling guaranteed wireless connectivity and real time multimedia communications with hospitals in advance of patient arrival. In this article, Ignacio, Jose, Qi, Gelayol, Enrique and Pablo consider the use of network slicing as one of the key elements enabling high quality real time multimedia communication between emergency medical personnel and hospitals. They present a network slicing architecture, and its implementation, as part of their 5G trials for the European project SliceNet, and discuss technical requirements for real time video or information transmission. They also argue that such shared but highly reliable connectivity could make ambulances more intelligent, further enabling emerging tools such as machine learning or artificial intelligence to further improve real time services.
M3 - Article
SP - 1
EP - 6
JO - IEEE ComSoc Technology News
JF - IEEE ComSoc Technology News
PB - IEEE Communications Society
ER -