Strong Angel III - rapid assessment techniques

ESRI â€“ Entree Wireless Test Geo-located Handheld Data Collection

DavidAhlgren — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:56:41 +0000

08/25/06 - Friday
Sortie Plan
2508 â€“ Point Loma, Data Collection â€“ 2508
Sortie Lead - Myles Sutherland, ESRI, Tom Patterson, ESRI

The Planâ€“ Visit a variety of sites in the Point Loma area. Make local contacts and collect simulated patient data on a variety of GPS enabled handheld devices such as; PDA, Cell phone, laptops. Transmit data to a data center via the Internet using various communication channels including â€“ 1) Cellular Data Network, 2) Wi-Fi using the EVDO/Wi-Fi Bridge.

Data Flow using the EVDO/Wi-Fi Bridge

GPS enabled handheld w/ Wi-Fi >> Entree Wireless battery powered EVDO/Wi-Fi gateway>> Verizon EVDO Data Service >> Internet >> ESRI data center >> Internet >> ESRI Strong Angel Common Operating Picture >> Virtual Agility Strong Angel III Situational Awareness

Report from ShadowLite Command Center â€“ Org Chart, Virtual Agility Situational Awareness Work Center

DavidAhlgren — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 21:16:09 +0000

08/25/06 Friday

Earlier this week I took the ICS/NIMS training and certification class. Today I spent the morning in the ShadowLite Command Center and observed and supported the deployment of multiple sorties to the field to collect demographic data.

The organization chart for Strong Angel / ShadowLite follow the ICS/NIMS model as follows

Strong Angel III Disaster Response Demonstration

PFO - Principle Federal Officer â€“ Eric Rasmussen

Command â€“ This is the facility has overall control of the Incident

IC â€“ Incident Commander, John Gargett
. Command Staff
. . PIO â€“ Press Information Officer, Jamie Imus

MedWeb â€“ Entree Wireless, Redundant Comms Enhances Mission Beach Sortie

DavidAhlgren — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:32:11 +0000

0823 0930 â€“ Wednesday

Met with Linda Branagan, Director of Research, MedWeb, to talk about the dayâ€™s scenario.

MedWeb is the industry standard for distributed telemedicine solutions and the delivery of Web-enabled, secure Tele-radiology and Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS).

They have developed a medical response vehicle with a fully equipped mobile communication center that supports a variety of communication networks including satellite, 3G EVDO data and Wi-Fi.

Today MedWeb is planning a sortie to the mission beach lifeguard station to investigate reports of a number of people with flu like symptoms and identify potential patients that are part of the Asian Flu Pandemic.