Transcript Document 7503165

Emergency Services
Enterprise Framework: A
Service-Oriented Approach
Emergency Services SDO Workshop
Columbia University, October 4-5, 2006
Sukumar Dwarkanath, Technical Director,
COMCARE
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Roadmap
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Concepts
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Emergency Services/Stakeholders
Current Initiatives - COI
Standards
Conclusion
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COMCARE Overview
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A national advocacy organization of over 100
organizations dedicated to advancing emergency
communications and response
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Seamless information sharing for the most
advanced response to emergencies
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Concepts
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Emergency Services?
 It is the set of agencies that are involved in emergency
preparedness, planning, response and recovery functions.
 Diverse set of entities – from public safety to private industry
Stakeholders
 Diverse
 Varied needs and requirements
 No single entity – in charge
Community of Interest:
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a collaborative group of users/stakeholders with a common
business objective and mission
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Helps to provide shared perspective
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Current Initiatives - Emergency
Services Community of Interest
(COI)
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Recently Launched – COMCARE/NCOIC
Goals:
 Serve as a forum to facilitate collaboration and
resource/information discovery
 Identify core/shared services that can enable ease of interdomain emergency communications
Scope
 International
Workgroups
 Business Requirements Workgroup
 Technology Workgroup
 Policy Workgroup
Call to Join
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Emergency Services Enterprise: A
Framework
Emergency Services Enterprise Framework
People
Operation
Process
Governance
Technology
Technology
Line of Business
Enterprise
Services
Shared
Core
Enterprise Platform
Enterprise Infrastructure
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Services in the Enterprise
ENTERPRISE SERVICES
Line Of Business
(LOB) Services
• Vertical, intradomain
• Domain Specific
• Ex: A traffic
advisory LOB
services - the
regional domain.
Core Services
Shared Services
• Provisioned as a common
shared capability across the
enterprise
• Shared by a subset
of the enterprise – a
group of domains
• Ex: Identity and Access
Management
• May be offered as
competitive services
• Governed by the community COMCARE/NCOIC Emergency
Service Community Of Interest
(COI)
• Ex: Hospital Bed
Availability Service shared between
hospitals, EMS, and
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EM.
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Standards – The glue in the
framework
The OASIS Emergency Management TC
Enabling information exchange to advance
incident preparedness and response to
emergency situations
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http://www.oasisopen.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=e
mergency
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Standards – “The Glue of the
Framework”
Message Distribution
OASIS EDXL Distribution
Element (DE)
Alerting and Notification
Capacity and Resources
OASIS DRAFT EDXL Hospital
AVailability Exchange (HAVE)
OASIS Common Alerting
Protocol (CAP)
OASIS DRAFT EDXL
Resource Messaging (RM)
Vehicular Emergency Data
Set (VEDS)
Resource: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=emergency
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OASIS EM TC Standards
- Common Alerting Protocol (CAP)
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Standardizes the content of alerts and notifications
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Alert
Info
Resource
Area
All-hazards
Can be used for citizen-authority communication
Resources:
OASIS Emergency Management TC
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=emergency
Incident.com http://www.incident.com/cookbook/index.php/Welcome_to_the_CAP_Cookbook
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OASIS EDXL Distribution
Element (DE)
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Facilitates the routing of emergency
messages
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Distribution Type
Geography
Incident
Sender/Recipient Type
‘Envelope’ with payloads (CAP, EDXL-RM
etc)
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Vehicular Emergency Data Set
(VEDS)
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Not an OASIS Standard
The Vehicular Emergency Data Set (VEDS) is an XML standard for
the transmission of telematics data to emergency response agencies.
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Source of Data
Incident Data
Agencies Notified
Automated Incident Data
Post Crash On-scene data
Personal medical data
Currently used in pilots and trials
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Department of Transportation sponsored test being conducted in Minnesota.
It is also being tested in Orlando, FL where OnStar is sending crash data
directly into its 9-1-1 Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) system.
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Conclusion
Sukumar Dwarkanath
Technical Director, COMCARE
[email protected]
202-429-0574
Resources:
COMCARE - http://www.comcare.org
OASIS EM TC - http://www.oasisopen.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=emergency
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Backup Slides
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Use Case
Core Services
Agency Locator Service
look up authorized
emergency responder
agencies in the area
Shared
Services
Intelligence and
Information Analysis
Service
provides a detailed
analysis of nearby
schools, critical
infrastructure etc.,
LOB Service
Traffic Advisory
Service
Provides best and
alternate route
information
Response Agencies
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