BluePrint: Sahana First Response

Current Status

​Fit-Gap analysis spreadsheet

Available features:

Missing features:

1. Common Operating Picture with Crisis Mapping (who, what, when, and where)
2. manage event type specific work flows pre-populated message templates and messages (field-observation, casualty-illness, situation-information, response-resource, resource-messaging and management-summary reports)
3. input and output ​HXL #Event, ​SITREP and ​RM feeds [2] to serve as an aggregator and a publisher-subscriber
4. Desktop and Mobile applications to integrate and to server as a publisher and a subscriber
5. Approve or Reject asset management, incident reports, situational-reporting, and resource messaging
6. Support multiple language message delivery options: HTTP, RSS/Atom, SMS, Email, FTP
7. digitally sign the messages
8. ​Pictographs for reporting incidents (field and casualty-illness reports)
9. Incident specific SOP check list

Introduction

<What problem is this solution solving?> <How will this solution add value to Sahana?> <Name any similar existing solutions>

Briefly

Sahana First Response (SaFiRe) is designed to support a Simple Emergency Operation Center (EOC). An EOC could be as simple as a single terminal with a single user (e.g. a Dispatch Station) recording incident reports and dispatching an emergency service. The emergency service might be the maintenance engineering crew of a telecommunications service provider deployed to fix a backup power generator. A Police EOC would utilize for managing field-observation (burglary, accident, dispute) and casualty-illness reports (accident, murder). The Police response and resources allocated to an incident varies upon the scenario. The other extreme is managing a crisis such as an earthquake with many casualties, damages, and losses. All these, whether big or small, require managing a series of activities and sharing information across multiple Agencies with their Incident Command and Control Systems (ICCSs). The problem that SAIFRE is solving is providing a simple crisis and emergency response management system.

Problem

Under a well-developed emergency management system, the Emergency Management Services of a Country should be aware of and should map every significant emergency incident and its response. Sharing such information among multiple agencies with disparate systems can be complicated. Solutions such as WebEOC are hard for small developing nations to finance. ​Silo-ed Organizations and inter-agency rivalry at various levels of a national emergency management system becomes a difficult challenge to integrate.

Solution

SAFIRE is essentially a Sahana Eden template combining various modules to support the work flows of a simple EOC from incident report inception through a cycle until the situation is contained. Important SAFIRE features:

1. Crisis mapping contributes to the common operating picture and categorical representation of the reports with situation visualization and decision management
2. Able to input and output reports in various formats (JSON, XML, PDF, XSL, SQL) and emergency data exchange standards (EDXL, HXL)
3. Use a combination of voice and data input and output streams for collecting and disseminating situational reports and resource messaging
4. Adaptable to handheld and desktop devices for collecting, processing, and sharing information
5. Generic but flexible to customize to any user's liking; i.e. disaster management, police, civil society, private companies, and NGOs

Stakeholders

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User Stories

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Requirements

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Functional

• Crisis Mapping for receiving and visualizing incident reports

Non-functional

​http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-functional_requirements

Interoperability

Standards

System Constraints

Design

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Data Model

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Workflows

<Diagrams or Pseudocode>

Site Map

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Wireframes

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Technologies

Current Implementation

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Planned Implementation

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Future Extensions

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Outstanding Questions

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References

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