While considerable effort, if not always success, has been made in terms of the adoption of

emergency response and communication technologies on a government level, the ability of 

private enterprise to adopt such emerging technology has for financial reasons been limited 

to only certain larger industries, e.g. power industry etc. Here we address the potential use 

of such systems, through the adoption of emerging technology in situations with short 

active time-frames, high potential impacts on significant populations, and low management 

resource contexts. In this chapter we focus on the specific context of special events and 

festivals as an example of these circumstances.