Sponsor: US Ignite
The overall goal of this effort is to work with homeland security and emergency management community to develop techniques to improve resilience and quality of service of information sharing platforms for crisis response. Existing incident management systems rely on underlying internet communication infrastructure for exchanging data and the underlying internet offers very limited quality of service guarantees, especially in situations such as crisis response where first responders and incident commanders are trying to exchange time critical information related to search and rescue operations and containing an emergency situation. The project team is working towards meeting the following objectives to accomplish the goal. (1) Design high-availability solution to support reliable communication with command-and-control centers, (2) Deploy required hardware and software infrastructure at UL Lafayette to demonstrate proof-of-concept, (3) Software implementation to demonstrate high definition video transmission & redundant communications, and (4) Demonstrate the project to key stakeholders that includes public safety and emergency management community.