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Agency Locator Services: EPAD
Sukumar Dwarkanath, Technical Director, COMCARE
Emergency Services SDO Workshop
October 4-5,
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New York
Outline
 COMCARE – Overview
 Two Core Services
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Agency Locator and Identity Management EPAD
 Overview
 Prototype
 Alpha version - design overview
 Next Steps - NEARS
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COMCARE Overview
 A national advocacy
organization with over
100 members dedicated
to advancing emergency
communications and
response
 Our goal: seamless,
geographically targeted
information sharing for
the most advanced
response to emergencies
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Outline
 COMCARE – Overview
 Two Core Services
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Agency Locator Service and Identity
Management - EPAD
 Overview
 Prototype
 Alpha version - design overview
 Next Steps - NEARS
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Core Service - Agency Locator Service (EPAD)*
 A national directory of agencies, NOT individuals
 Secure, shared community utility that will
operate as a non-profit public/private partnership
 Geospatially-enabled, web-based registry that
enables the accurate routing of emergency and
warning messages
* EPAD Emergency Provider Access Directory
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Agency Locator Service - EPAD
 Information profiles are established and
maintained by the agencies themselves
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Agencies choose what information they receive
Agencies choose when and how they receive it
Agencies choose who has access to its information
 Messaging systems query EPAD to determine to
whom and where messages should be sent
 EPAD returns a list of agencies — based on
geographic area and incident type — that can
be used for simultaneous message distribution
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Core Services - Identity Management and
Access Control
 Linked to EPAD, but independent
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Verifies entities and their authority to perform certain actions, such as
sending out or receiving messages for certain incidents
Enables secure and reliable information sharing
 Four basic functions:
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Identification and authentication
Role-based access control
Policy enforcement and administration
Usage Auditing
 Serves multiple applications
 Flexible; assumes different policies in different areas
 Information sharing rules are established and maintained by the
appropriate authorizing organizations:
 What information can registered organizations receive?
 What messages can registered organizations send?
 Agencies choose who has access to their information
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EPAD - Prototype
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Locator only, not identity management functionality
Developed by member – DICE
Used in Various Pilots and Demonstrations
http://www.epad.us
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EPAD – Detailed Design (Alpha Version)
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Funded by Department of Justice (DOJ) grant
Developed detailed requirements
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Process and Participants
 Outreach to identify stakeholder requirements
 National Emergency Response Organizations
 Working Groups
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Health, EMS and Medical
Transportation
Emergency Management
Public Safety
Federal, State and Local Government
Detailed Design Deliverables:
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Design Compositions
Process Flows
Traceability Matrices
Use Cases
Wireframes
Technical Architecture
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Architecture - Services
EPAD External Facing Components
SOAP
HTTP
EPAD Query System
EPAD Admin
Web Services
Struts
EPAD Internal Shared Components
Identity Management System
COREid
SHAREid
COREsv
SunOne
Directory Server
GIS Services
PostGIS
MoxiMedia
MapServer
GeoServer
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Technology Matrix
Logical Component
Product
Version
Operating System
Red Hat Linux Enterprise AS
Enterprise AS 4.0
Web Server
Apache Web Server
Apache 1.3 & 2.x
Web Container
TomCat
Tomcat 4.x & 5.x
Application Server
JBoss Application Server
Jboss AS 4.x
Database
PostgreSQL (including Spatial PostgreSQL)
Postgres 8.x
LDAP Server
Sun ONE Directory Server
Sun ONE DS 5.2+
Access Manager and
Identity Manager
Oracle/Oblix COREid, SHAREid, and COREsv
COREid: 7.0.3+, SHAREid:
2.5+, COREsv 4.+
GIS Components
PostGIS
PostGIS 1.0
MapServer
MapServer 4.4.2
GeoServer
GeoServer 1.2.4
MoxiMedia IMF
IMF Enterprise Edition (for
OpenGIS)
TopoZone Web Mapping Service
GeoZone OGC WMS
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Design Summary
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Adherence to Open Standards
Adherence to Government Standards
Promote Reuse
High Availability, Scalability, Performance
Secure resources
Minimize custom developed code
Utilize open source solutions
Maximize out-of-the-box COTS functionality
(Identity Management)
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Outline
 COMCARE – Overview
 Two Core Services
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Agency Locator Service and Identity
Management - EPAD
 Overview
 Prototype
 Alpha version - design overview
 Next Steps - NEARS
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Next Steps - The National Emergency Alerting
and Response System (NEARS) Initiative
 A non-profit cooperative effort focused on demonstrating
and deploying interoperable emergency messaging
systems using:
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National emergency message data standards
Commercial information technologies
Shared, electronic routing directory of agencies
 A three-track program that demonstrates the concept,
builds production version of EPAD and integrates them
into existing emergency response infrastructures
 Partners will the lead the effort and ensure directory
population and development of business rules for
operation.
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NEARS Partners
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American College of Emergency
Physicians (ACEP)
Emergency Nurses Association
(ENA)
International Association of
Emergency Managers (IAEM)
National Association of EMTs
(NAEMT)
National Association of State EMS
Directors (NASEMSD)
National Emergency Number
Association (NENA)
National Association of
Emergency managers (NEMA)
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National Volunteer Fire Council
(NVFC)
Brain Trauma Foundation (BTF)
Emergency Interoperability
Consortium (EIC)
Fraternal Order of Police (FOP)
American Public Health
Association (APHA)
Brain Injury Association (BIA)
George Washington University
Homeland Security Policy Institute
COMCARE
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
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NEARS – Focus Areas
 NEARS Tracks:
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Nationwide demonstrations to increase Awareness
and focus attention on data communications
preparedness
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Interoperability toolkit that includes the production
version of EPAD
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Regional Demonstrations and Trials
Resource: http://www.nears.us
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Conclusion
Sukumar Dwarkanath
Technical Director, COMCARE
[email protected]
Resources:
http://www.comcare.org
http:///www.epad.us
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