GSBLapp: Tailored Chemical Substance Information for Arbitrary On-Site Usage on Mobile Devices

Abstract

Technical assistance for the provision of substance information for firefighters, specialist consultants and rescue services replaces more and more conventional, paper-based solutions. Recently, the Federal Environment Agency of Germany developed a mobile application for smart phones and tablets specially tailored to the needs of firefighters. This so called GSAapp allows users to efficiently and instantly search offline for information on 16000 substances. We realized soon that there are additional possibilities of use for chemical substance data and relevant chemicals-related legislation on mobile devices. However, we noted that required techniques and functionality are similar for such applications. Therefore, we developed one mobile application that is customizable for different scenarios. We present the approach and our results in this paper.