INSTITUTO MILITAR DE ENGENHARIA IME Brazil

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INSTITUTO MILITAR DE ENGENHARIAIME - Brazil
Adolfo Correia Humberto Arruda Fernando
Mesquita Rafael Osório Team Mentor Ulf Bergmann
Adolfo Correia Humberto Arruda Fernando
Mesquita Rafael Osório Team Mentor Ulf Bergmann
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Agenda

• Motivation and Goals
• System Overview
• ISCS Operation and Benefits
• Focus on Quality
• Conclusions

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Video
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Motivation
Disasters always harm people and their
belongings. The most serious ones may even cause
human losses. It is necessary to provide means to
minimize these consequences

• Flood
• Evacuate citizens
• Oil leak
• Avoid contamination
• Forest fire
• Coordinate field teams
• Landslide
• Rescue survivors
• Terrorist attack
• Assist victims

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Goal

• Develop a real time command system to assist
  emergency response teams.

• The system must offer
• great mobility
• friendly interface.
• In order to
• allow better effort coordination
• minimize the response time
• minimize losses (human and material).

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Agenda

• Motivation and Goals
• System Overview
• ISCS Operation and Benefits
• Focus on Quality
• Conclusions

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System Overview
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Agenda

• Motivation and Goals
• System Overview
• ISCS Operation and Benefits
• Focus on Quality
• Conclusions

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Real Disaster Example

• Brazilian soccer final (December 2000)
• Rio de Janeiro (São Januário)
• Crowded stadium (40,000 supporters)
• The bleachers fence collapsed
• 150 wounded people.

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Operation
Real Problem The response teams had difficulties
to arrive to the disaster site due to intense
traffic and the crowd near the stadium.
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Operation
ISCS Solution The ISCS includes a GPS receiver
that allows the Central Office to monitor each
teams geographical position. This data is also
available to the response team so that it is
possible to know the better way to reach a
disaster site.

• Benefits
• Better effort coordination
• Minimized response time.

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Operation
Real Problem The response teams prioritized the
victims assistance but overlooked the crowd
evacuation, which contributed to significant
disorder.
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Operation

• Benefits
• Better action coordination
• Selection of the most appropriate plan according
  to the local and type of incident.

ISCS Solution The ISCS points out the operation
plan with all the corresponding necessary
actions. The operator can also check the progress
of each action as soon as they are started.
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Operation
Real Problem It took too long for several
necessary equipment to arrive to the incident
site.
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Operation

• Benefits
• Faster and simplified disposal of resources
• The IS operator has more time to execute other
  actions.

ISCS Solution The ISCS automatically manages
actions that, in order to be executed, need
special equipment or resources.
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Operation
Real Problem The victims were all sent to the
same hospital The ambulances were unable to find
alternative escape routes from the stadium to the
hospital.
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Operation

• Benefits
• Real time information interchange
• File exchange between the Central Office and the
  IS team.

ISCS Solution The Central Office can send,
through the ISCS, plans or maps pointing out
alternative paths to reach or leave a site The
Central Office can warn the IS operator about
remote events or any other relevant information.
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Operation
Real Problem The overall response operation
performance was not satisfactory.
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Operation

• Benefits
• Detailed information about the operation
  progress
• Evaluation of the overall response performance
• Real time monitor capability.

• ISCS Solution
• The ISCS logs the progress of each executed
  action and other important events
• The ISCS includes a camera to capture images from
  the disaster site.

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Agenda

• Motivation and Goals
• System Overview
• ISCS Operation and Benefits
• Focus on Quality
• Conclusions

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Software Engineering

• Development Process

• Extensive use of CASE tools
• Modeling
• Project Management
• Version control

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Software Engineering

• ISCS Quality Attributes
• User friendly interface
• Graphical interface (Microsoft Pocket PC 2002 and
  Java Swing)
• Typing minimization (icons and wizards)
• Performance
• iPaq Pocket PC (powerful processor)
• Time consuming operations implemented as C/C
  native code (e.g. JPEG compression)
• Minimization of network traffic (files stored
  locally)

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Software Engineering

• ISCS Quality Attributes (cont.)
• Portability
• Java technology
• Maintainability and evolution
• OO technology
• Layered architecture
• Well defined layers interface
• Reusability
• Design Patterns.
• Layered architecture
• Flexibility
• Each real device implemented through inheritance
  of abstract classes that implements common
  behavior

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Agenda

• Motivation and Goals
• System Overview
• ISCS Operation and Benefits
• Focus on Quality
• Conclusions

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Future improvements

• Use other communication channels
• Better resolution photos and video capture
  capability
• A.I. support to choose the best operation plans
• Wireless link between the PDA and the cell phone

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So what?

• Central Command System development
• System implantation

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Final