Strong Angel III - shared situational awareness

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

Loma Linda â€“ Entree Wireless Test Mobile Video Headset Over Wi-Fi EVDO Gateway

DavidAhlgren — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 20:04:16 +0000

Met with Tod Williams, director of technology, Loma Linda University Medical Center and talked about ways to extend the reach of their MTV (METERV) Communications and Command Vehicle. Designed to respond to emergency and disaster situations, the MTV brings the expertise of a critical care center to patients that may be cut off from access to any hospital or medical care.

Tod has been testing a new mobile video head set that broadcasts audio and video over Wi-Fi.

The plan was to utilize the Entree Wireless Mobile Wi-Fi Gateway to extend the reach of the MTV by having Tod and team venture down the beach interviewing patients.

4347 n.harbor drive

dangillmor — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:21:00 +0000

Creating content for bottom-up map...

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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.

ICS/NIMS training and certification - Better than a wireless network any day

DavidAhlgren — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:27:48 +0000

08/22 0800 - Tuesday
ICS/NIMS training and certification - Better than a wireless network any day
Morning briefing

Wireless network still down

Decided to take the ICS/NIMS training class. Lee Sapaden, Instructor

Very good highly recommended

More to come - keep smiling

Down to the real work â€“ Wi-Fi Camera deployment challenges

DavidAhlgren — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 08:16:58 +0000

08/21 1130 Monday

We brought 3 products to Strong Angel III â€“ Battery Powered Mobile Wi-Fi Router, Solar powered Wi-Fi Video camera and a Solar powered sensor net.

The Mobile Wi-Fi Router is a slam dunk. Just turn it on and in 30 seconds you have Wi-Fi Internet any time and any place (that is if EVDO/1xRTT is enabled). Case in point, the Mobile Wi-Fi router provided Internet service on the Sunday pre-event briefing. The Mobile Wi-Fi camera has some challenges when being deployed in a â€˜dynamicâ€™ (read going up/down often) wireless network.

My plan was to socialize the Mobile Wi-Fi Router with potential users and work through the camera issues on Monday PM after the wireless network was up. I got good traction socializing the Mobile Wi-Fi router but the camera was not easy.

Ready Set Go

DavidAhlgren — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:53:37 +0000

08/21 - 0800 - Monday
More that 250 participants filled the bleachers at building 557, the temporary home of Strong Angel III, and anxiously chatted about the days to come.

Eric Rasmussen lead the briefing covering many of the points from Sunday and emphasizing the value and importance of the Strong Angel III demonstration, the lessons learned and the bonds and friendships that will develop. The bottom line â€“ We need to improve our efficiencies and capabilities because in a disaster response and crisis management, inefficiencies cost lives.

We also heard from Dave Warner on the ShadowLite plans which focus on collecting data from the community through multiple daily sorties and also will offer some seminars including ICS/NIMS training and certification.

Sahana reads an SSE feed

buxtonp — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:03:39 +0000

Sahana now able to accept SSE feed (read only at present). Developed in less than 1 day of coding. Currently at proof of concept stage.

Strong Angel III Pre-Event Kick Off

DavidAhlgren — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 22:26:46 +0000

8/20, 1000 -
Sunday morning the Strong Angel III participants gathered at 10:00 for a pre-event briefing by Dr. Eric Rasmussen, Strong Angel III Director, Dr. Eric Frost, Regional Coordinator, Dave Warner, Shadow Lite Director and Nigel Snoad, Demonstration Design.

Eric R. talked about the world wide representation of technologists, service agencies and humanitarians that have gathered for this integrated disaster response demonstration. He emphasized that this event is not a scripted exercise but a Jazz like impromptu gathering of people prepared to adventure beyond their normal limits and explore the boundaries of what can be accomplished when mere mortals simply agree to collaborate in a honest and sincere manner. Above all, when frustration builds and tempers get short â€“ Keep Smiling.