The catastrophes of September 11, 2001 put Arlington County's emergency response system to the test. They revealed capabilities and limitations o t h d s e overlooked during previous standard emergency response assessments. There were three key issues in the response to 911 1 that are recurring in jurisdictions across the nation: 1) reliance on voice-oriented communications; 2) limited situational awareness; and 3) lack of interoperability. A concept of operations integrating current commercially available technology in a system designed for the emergency response coordinator addresses these issues. To visualize this concept, a Graphical User Interface that displays the required functionalities described in the concept of o p mtions will be presented. High-ranking emergency response personnel ffom Arlington County, Virginia have conveyed that this solution is, indeed, feasible. The next step towards implementation should include exploring peer-topeer networks in integrating the technologies described.
This paper presents a study of the technical feasibility of applying Peer-to-Peer (PZP) technology to the domain of emergency response. The conceptual feasibility of such an endeavor is described in "Integrated Peer-to-Peer Applications for Advanced Emergency Response Systems Part I: Concept of Operations" (Bahora, et al.), which "pues that current emergency response technologies do not adequately support the dynamic nature of emergency response.
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