Experimental Simulation-Based Performance Evaluation of an SMS-Based Emergency Geolocation Notification System

Table 4

A comparison of the proposed SMS notification application with others.

Functionalities	Emergency SMS [14]	POLINT-112-SMS [15]	MEHM-DESIGN [17]	The proposed application
(1) Making silent calls during risky emergencies	Yes	Yes	Not applicable	Yes
(2) Automatic transmission of geolocation from an emergency scene by SMS to the nearest ambulance point automatically	No	No	No	Yes
(3) Ease of use and time-saving functionality during use	Yes	No	Partially	Yes
(4) GPS technology required	Yes	No	No	No
(5) SMS gateway to improve SMS reliability and delivery time	No	Yes	Uses telephony server daemon	Yes
(6) Strictly designed for reporting emergencies in real time	Yes	Partially	No	Yes
(7) Swift emergency geolocation transmission due to automatic geolocation transmission functionality	No	No	No	Yes
(8) Has information management support capability	Yes	Yes	Yes	Partially
(9) Receives patients’ bio, medical, and scene crisis report data by SMS	Yes	Yes	No	No
(10) Sends healthcare-related information apart from geolocation to the patients/users	Yes	No	Yes	No