Virtual EOC

Abstract

When an incident situation arises, irrelevant of size, Incident Commanders need to direct their personnel as well as liaise with other agencies to coordinate the response activities to save lives, protect infrastructure and restore safety. The Commanders and Incident Managers need the correct information at the right time using open, reliable communication chanels to trasmit tasts and plans to personnel on site. This final year project is targeted towards handling incident response activities and managing event security with the main aim of improving the collaboration environment between incident managers across different locations and agencies and personnel on the ground. The project will produce a system defined to be a Virtual Emergency Operations Centre. Through the use of various collaboration techniques over various portable platforms and devices, the system to be developed will connect various emergency response agencies located within different geographical positions providing decision support and command and control capabilities. The system will use technologies such as wireless internet and GPS locators to provide the Incident managers with the tools they need to correctly direct emergency personnel during an emergency situation.