An automated monitoring and response system includes sensors for monitoring an actor and the actor's environment, and an alert module interfaced with the sensors and adapted to identify an existence of an emergency situation relating to the actor or the environment. The alert module is adapted to generate an alert message for one or more responders, the alert message including a primary alert message component and a supplemental alert message component. The supplemental alert message component includes non-primary supplemental information relating to the actor and/or the environment and giving context to the at least one emergency situation, including, for example, sensor data relevant to the emergency situation.