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Wildfire Overwatch

John Casano

Central operating platform for coordinating active wildfire operations between Federal, State, and Local agencies based on real time geolocation data.

Features

  • Track locations of all assets, including people, aircraft

  • Focus of the real time location and health information of the firefighter

  • Easy registration process for tracking all asset (aircraft, trucks, ships, ) under the command.

Field User

  • Able to see geolocation overwatch information of the operational theater

  • Can make requests, one touch support

  • Push alerts to smart devices for new orders, headings

  • Receive smart alerts when they or their team is approaching danger

Command Center User

  • Ability to see everything, can receive requests, make orders, and monitor the health

  • Focus on large dashboard displays

Data in WildFire Overwatch comes from 4 sources

  • Real Time Fire Location provided by public data from NASA and NOAA

  • Real Time Geolocation of firefighters permissioned from firefighters smartphones and smart watches

  • Real Time Individualized Health Data from the firefighters smartwatches

  • Real Time Asset Location on assets (aircraft, drones, trucks, helicopters, etc) 

A Note on the Data Structure

  • Each Wildfire is categorized into an “Operational Theater”, which a geographic location and date range.

  • Each Operational Theater has many “Organizations” assigned to it to fight that fire.

  • Each Organization has many 1) Personel, and many 2) Assets

  • Assets are large equipment that are brought to bare against the fire such as Drones, Fire Airplanes, Helicopters, Trucks, etc.

  • Each personnel and asset has at least one geolocation transmitting device.

Low Latency Bandwidth Solution

  • Leverages satellite based solutions from Resudox Solutions LLC to combat low latency bandwidth issues.  This includes handing out personal devices, (Iridium Go!, Iridium Push-to-Talk, Garmin InReach, and/or GoTenna Pro X), and or  Larger Equipment (and more bandwidth) – vehicle-based such as  Iridium Certus.

  • All firefighters register and receive hotspot.  Smart devices are provided if needed.

  • All devices must be authenticated

  • All user can have more than one device (smartphone, smartwatch, Iridium Go!,)

Rollout

  • Expect to test WildFire Overwatch on small local fires and in large state/federal exercises.

  • We have commitment Partnering with NSIN, the State of California and Federal Entities would be welcome