Abstract
INTRODUCTION
Emergency response technology is a rapidly expanding and innovating field, but
invention development as it progresses from concept to lab to field has many
different standards, regulations, and performance consistency expectations to
meet before any new technology is adopted for use by emergency responders.
Decision makers in the heterogeneous field of emergency response need to have
the best possible information in order to ensure that their teams have the
highest performance equipment that their other departmental constraints allow.
Although there is a significant enough burden of performance proof, prior to
product implementation, to produce a tendency for emergency response
technology companies to adopt only technologies that other organizations have
adopted previously without problem, it is imperative that the product
information is sufficient to ensure the adoption of the best technologies for
the situation, and not merely the easiest or most convenient.
While market information in this report does not focus on company-specific
product offerings or relative strengths or weaknesses, it does present the
broad spectrum of emergency response technologies in context so that
implementing or stakeholder companies can gain a better understanding of how
their technology needs or technology offerings fit into the overall market
landscape. Additionally, truly leading edge emergency response technologies
like the emerging use of robotics for various incident control functions are
complex and may not present comprehensive information at the time that
decision makers need non-product-specific information to make their technology
implementation decisions.
Companies producing emergency response products must ensure that their client
companies have all of the necessary information while not side-stepping or
avoiding the rigorous regulatory factors that permeate all aspects of
emergency response. In this industry, experience in the field is a positive
attribute for a technology provider if simply for the perception conveyed that
the company is already well-versed in the complex imperatives juggled by
emergency response companies on a daily basis. While there is not a direct
connection between efficacy of a technology and emergency response field
experience, many provider companies spend equally as much effort in
establishing and maintaining client confidence in their companies as they do
in providing detailed information about their technologies.
For emergency response technology companies and for adopter companies it is
important to get beyond company positioning in order to understand the broader
panoply of emergency response technologies and their relative market
strengths. There is an increasing trend toward technology improvements for
situational information sharing at a broad level of inter-departmental
emergency response efforts. Even smaller departments must begin to consider
how their technology solutions will fit into the broader picture of emergency
response solutions, making it even more critical that decision-makers on both
sides of the emergency response technology supply chain understand the broader
market and regulatory forces as a whole.
SCOPE OF STUDY
This report contains:
- Descriptions of various types of emergency response technologies including
those for communication and interoperability components, command and control
and decision support, detection and monitoring of hazardous conditions and
facilities, decontamination and containment, and incident response and
remediation.
- Discussion of the emergency response technologies market both from a
market and applications perspective
- The current global market status for emergency response technologies, with
trends and forecasts for growth over the next 5 years
- Technological issues including the latest trends and a thorough patent
analysis
- Profiles of companies producing emergency response products.
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