How the internet of things technology enhances emergency response operations
01 Nov 2013-Technological Forecasting and Social Change (North-Holland)-Vol. 80, Iss: 9, pp 1854-1867
TL;DR: A modified task-technology fit approach is proposed that is used to investigate how the IoT technology can be incorporated into the three rhythms and enhance emergency response operations, and the findings from the research support the two hypotheses.
About: This article is published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change.The article was published on 2013-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 233 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Smart objects & Emergency management.
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Table 1 A tabular model of information requirements for ER operations. 
Table 4 Effect matrix between requirements-technology fit and strategic value 
Table 5 Binary effect matrix between information requirements characteristics, IoT technology characteristics and requirements-technology fit 
Table 3 Effect matrix between information requirements characteristics, IoT technology characteristics and requirements-technology fit 
Table 6 Binary effect matrix between requirements-technology fit and strategic value 
Fig. 1. The basic task-technology fit model. 
Fig. 2. Proposed research model for the IoT technology. 
Table 2 Attributes used for measurement.
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