We are now starting our 2nd AED hunt competition in Singapore. The official end date and time will be announced in the next couple of months, but the competition is already open!
The TOP 6 Seekers with the highest number of points will each receive a i.Tech Clip Radio 602 Bluetooth headset!
i.Tech Clip Radio 602 Bluetooth Headset
In addition, the TOP 2 Seekers with the highest number of points will each receive a MiLi Power Miracle External Battery Charger!
MiLi Power Miracle External Battery Charger
Prizes are kindly sponsored by KJC Technologies Pte Ltd.
For iPhone users to compete, search for “beextra” or “The Extraordinaries” in the iPhone app store. Download their iPhone app.
Once downloaded, search for “First Aid Corps” and “follow” us to get access to our missions.
You need to register your name in the app to qualify for the prize.
DO ONLY MISSION 1 (ONE).
You will have to complete all the 3 steps of the mission in order for us to receive your picture.
To see your picture uploaded in real-time, view HERE.
To know how AEDs in various countries look like, take a look HERE.
For Android users to compete, download the app “ShowNearby AED”. The first screenshot directs you to view the current known AED locations, and the other for you to upload new AED location information. Click “Add New AED” to start.
Points to be awared :
1. Each picture of a DOCUMENTED AED location gives you 1 (one) point.
2. Each picture of an UN-DOCUMENTED AED location gives you 3 (three) points.
Two simple conditions..
1. The same Seeker cannot geotag the same AED location twice.
2. Previous winners are not qualified for future prizes.
You can follow the competition progress in the current Facebook event page.
Hints are available at the bottom of this page. So read on!
Our previous AED Hunt competition in Singapore, a world’s first, began on 13th March 2010 and ended on 21st March 2010.
The prize for the top AED seeker was this!
And the winner was…
Kenneth P with 31 points! He has geotagged 25 AED locations! This is about 10% of all AEDs known in Singapore!
Jimmy T has 18 points. He has helped with 10 AED locations.
Philip L has 2 points. He has helped with 2 AED locations.
Interview with Kenneth our first winner.
Q : How easy was it to use “AED Nearby” to locate the nearest AED?
A : It was easy enough to get the rough location. However, not all AEDs are adequately labelled, so it took a fair amount of leg work to find some of the AEDs, especially since they might not be located on ground level.
Q : Was loading the app fast enough?
A : Yes, it is.
Q : What did you like about the app?
A : It’s simple, uncluttered and does what it says: highlighting locations of AEDs nearby.
Q : What did you not like about the app?
A : Some of the AED locations do not indicate where in the building the AEDs are located, but that’s not the app’s fault.
Q : Knowing that the time needed to save a life from cardiac arrest death is under 5 minutes, are the number of AEDs around the city adequate?
A : Definitely not. While some building are adequately covered – Wisma Atria, for example, has AEDs on every shopping level in easy-to-find locations – many buildings do not even have a single AED.
Q : When you were in an area with AEDs, how much time on average did it take you to reach one?
A : This really depends on the building, and whether I knew in advance where to look. Generally, they are located at security counters, information counters or near escalators. I think I took an average of two minutes to find an AED once I was in a building in town.
Q : In your opinion, will such an app help to improve the survival rate in public, knowing that the survival from using an AED increases the chance to approx 70%?
A : It certainly will not decrease the chances of survival! The app on its own will not do much to increase the survival rate in public. Many other factors need to be considered in tandem: awareness of AEDs, whether people who are aware know there is such an app (if they have iPhones) and whether they are near an AED when someone collapses. A lot more needs to be done, but we will get there slowly.
Q : Have you been trained in CPR, AED or both before?
A : Yes, I have Heartsaver CPR and CPR+AED certification. I am currently in the process of attaining CPR+AED instructor certification.
Q : Even if you are not trained in CPR or AED, do you believe you can still help in the chain of survival by geotagging AED locations for the data to be fed into the AED Nearby app?
A : Yes, people can definitely can help even if they do not know how to do CPR or use the AED. Knowing where to locate an AED and bringing it to the site is very important as every second counts in the chain of survival.
Q : How much time on average did it take you to geotag an AED location?
A : In the city, it took about 2 minutes to geotag as it was accurate to within 20 metres or so. Geotagging the locations in NUS was a lot more difficult because the GPS function does not work well around the western end of Kent Ridge Campus at all. The given locations were always off by at least 50m. Also, the map provided does not have outlines of the buildings in NUS! So it took a lot longer to geotag those AED locations manually. I have to say that it involved a lot of estimation on my part.
We thank all our Seekers for their time and efforts to help make our city a safer place.
We documented the competition progress in the Facebook event page.
Who is a Seeker? The explanation is HERE.
Hints given
1. To know where the known AED locations are, iPhone users can download the free iPhone app “AED Nearby” from the app store. Android users can use the app “ShowNearby AED” to locate these same AED locations.
2. A high concentration of AEDs can be found at the National University of Singapore campus.
3. There are sightings of AEDs located at the ground floor near to the lift lobbies and security desks of buildings at the Biopolis.
4. There are lots of AEDs in shopping malls and hotels along Orchard Road. You may just have to ask the staff where they are kept.
5. We have heard that the Supreme Court has a couple of AEDs.
6. It is said there are AEDs in the public swimming pools.
7. If you are going to the Resorts World, lots of AEDs there! More than 50, we were told.
8. It has been reported that there are AEDs in the void decks of HDB blocks in Bukit Merah View, as well as Henderson Community Club and the Bukit Merah View market.
