https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/06/rapidsos-an-emergency-response-data-provider-raises-30m-as-it-grows-from-10k-users-to-250m/

Every day, there are around 650,000 emergency service callouts via 911 for medical, police and fire assistance in the US; and by their nature these are some of the most urgent communications that we will ever make.

But ironically in the age of smartphones, connected things and the internet, these 911 calls are also some of the most antiquated — with a typical emergency response centre still relying on the humans making the calls to tell them the most basic of information about their predicaments before anything can be actioned.