Enhancing Mutual Aid Coordination Through FRESH and Vortex Tools
Outcomes and observations from a collaborative event on mutual aid information exchange involving stakeholders from various sectors. The use of FRESH and Vortex tools facilitated bridging interoperability challenges, promoting a simple, efficient, and easy-to-implement approach. Learn more about FRESH, Vortex, and how to get involved in this initiative.
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Mutual Aid Outcomes and Available Tools Don McGarry ArdentMC support to FRG
Outcomes and Observations Numerous stakeholders across the Federal / State / Local / Industry came together to identify current capabilities / gaps regarding the exchange of Mutual Aid information While there are policy / governance challenges, there are technical gaps that can begin to be addressed as well A standards-based model and toolsuite (FRESH Router / Vortex) were employed to begin to bridge interoperability challenges All participants left the event with a desire / plan to integrate systems utilizing open standards moving forward Recommended approach: Simple, Efficient, Easy to Implement Solve the 80% Solution First 2
What is FRESH / Vortex? FRESH Open source message router sponsored by DHS S&T Vortex Open cloud-based platform based on FRESH with private enhancements (Multi-tenant, Secure, Highly-Available, Fault-Tolerant) Designed to be transparent to end-user just get better data / tools 3
What Does it (will it) Do? Share information using open standards: OASIS EDXL NIEM EMLC OGC WMS / WFS / STAPI Visualize data: ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise GeoServer / Leaflets Open Source Dashboard Analytics Dashboard / Collaborate in real-time: Cross-Platform Map Markup Chat Analytics / Alarms / Alerting Not be a silo for your data, scale to support needs, integrate with your existing tools & technologies 4
How Can I Get Involved Current API and Swagger documentation available Get engaged in the mutual aid follow-up Open source release coming soon: https://github.com/1stresponder Come speak with a team member Check out some of our roving demos Stay tuned for the emerging tech and IoT talk 5
Bringing Emerging Tech and IoT to Resource Management Don McGarry ArdentMC support to FRG
NGFR Recap Goal: Make Responders better Protected, Connected, Fully Aware: Protected: PPE, Cyber Connected: Incident Area Networking, Wide-Area Networking Fully Aware Information Sharing and Situational Awareness Technology Approach: Architecture-Centric Approach DHS focuses on standards / architecture, industry builds capabilities that are market-driven Capabilities are modular, customizable, extensible but all work together Technology Focus Areas Mobility Use of Smart Devices, HUD, UAS Internet of Things Inexpensive connected devices that are body-worn / deployable Connected Sensing From Commercial IoT to Scientific-Grade Enhanced Data Connectivity Layered capabilities that supplement Commercial LTE 7
Whats a Spiral? FRG adopted an agile approach to developing, testing, refining exemplar capabilities for NGFR Spiral Development Build, Integrate, Test, Demonstrate at six month intervals 8
Tech Breakout Summary: 20+ COTS, GOTS and OSS technologies integrated using standards at all levels User feedback, formal testing and field evaluation of NGFR technologies, requirements and architecture All fully compatible with FRESH / Vortex using EDXL, NIEM, OGC Watchtower mobile app (Android, iOS) Resource tracking GIS visualization Field / Situation reporting Collaboration / Alerting 9
IoT Capabilities Pinpoint tracker Sub $100 solution for real-time asset tracking Set and forget capability Ability to share to / from formal AvL systems Field-deployable for ~24 hours w/o charging Supports additional sensors Sensor integration (Hexoskin, POC patch, Zephyr HR Monitor, Grove) Emerging IoT Sensing capabilities Tracks personnel health / safety On-body / deployable environmental hazard monitoring Uses new OGC IoT Standards 10
Video / Data Capabilities Video datacasting - Live streaming of video and other data using public television spectrum Band Class 14 LTE Deployed / tested public safety band LTE capabilities to simulate FirstNET UAS Video Streaming Integration of COTS UAS into NGFR architecture CAD / GIS Integration Integration of legacy data sources and enterprise GIS capabilities All capabilities still in use after event 11
