IOPES targets a better decision-making process for emergency management

Frederiksborg, Denmark, CBRNE exercise (incident commander), May 28th, 2018. Credits: Frederiksborg Fire & Rescue Service.

The IOPES system will be tested in two functional exercises

Mosbach TCHR, simulated earthquake, June 16th 2019. Credits: ScaraBot Gmbh.

IOPES is a multi-purpose tool that may be used in any kind or disaster and area

ICE-SAR in a snow storm, Iceland, December 2019. Credits: ICE-SAR.

IOPES seeks to strengthen the preparednes of civil protection & emergency teams

Prescribed burning, TREX Andalucia 2019. Credits: Pau Costa Foundation.

With IOPES, tracking the position of emergency staff will be possible, either indoors or outdoors

Ischia Earthquake, Italy, August 2017. Credits: Dipartimento della Protezione Civile-Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri.

Up-to-date maps of the emergency site is a cornerstone of IOPES

Trento, Italy Storm, November 2018. Credits: Dipartimento della Protezione Civile-Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri.

IOPES may be used around the world, wherever the tracking of personnel is a need

Albania earthquake, November 20th, 2019. Credits: Dipartimento della Protezione Civile-Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri.

The IOPES consortium includes end-users and technogical organizations

Frederiksborg, Denmark, SAR rescue diver training, March 2nd, 2018. Credits: Frederiksborg Fire & Rescue Service.

Background

The IOPES is a two-year project co-funded by the European Commission, Directorate-General Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO), under the call UCPM-2019-PP-AG. 

The 2019 Call for Proposal (Preparedness projects) focused on strengthening preparedness for responding to multi-sector emergencies, including health, CBRN, environment and marine pollution in Europe and its Neighbourhoods. IOPES targets the specific objective number two: Developing operational tools to facilitate emergency response.

Goals

Positioning

Provide continuous, time-tagged information about the location of Civil Protection Emergency Teams (CPET), either indoors or outdoors.

Communications

Use an easily deployabe LTE/5G portable, autonomous communication system to avoid the need of existing (possibly damaged / inoperative) infrastructures.

Management

Track the positions of the members of the emergency team as a new feature of an already operational Emergency Management System (EMS).

Fast mapping

Build detailed maps of the area in short times using Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) when there is no cartography available or it is too outdated.

Decision making

Improve the decision-making process of those people involved in the management of emergencies.

Concept

The IOPES project integrates wearable positioning technologies, LTE/5G portable and easily deployable communications, a seasoned IT-based emergency management system as well as fast mapping products in order to track the positions of the members of emergency teams, no matter whether they are indoors or outdoors, willing to strengthen the preparednes of civil protection and emergency teams involved in several kind of disaster-related operations.

Consortium

Activities

User Needs

This activity includes the assesment of user needs through interaction with end-users and stakeholders and the definition of the scenarios used to test the IOPES system.

Outreach

This activity seeks to make the outcomes of the project known by other civil protection and emergency collectives, by presenting it in scientific and specialized forums, webinars and a final conference.

 

System integration

This activity takes care of all the technical aspects required to deliver an operational IT-based solution meeting the specifications collected from end-users.

 

Field testing

Two functional exercises will be carried out in Spain and Germany, where the IOPES system will be put to the test in different environmental and emergency conditions.

Long-term sustainability

The aim of this activity is to identify and ideally provide all the possible resources at hand so the lifespan of IOPES goes far beyond this project itself, increasing its uptake.

Outcomes

The first outcome of the project will be an IT-based solution, that is, an enhanced Emergency Management System (EMS) able to track emergency teams in real time.

The data collected by this EMS lead to the second outcome of IOPES: the later dissection of such information to trace the behavior of the teams, linking variables as time, position & events, making possible a post-mortem analysis of the emergency and thus the development or refinement of strategies aiming at the improvement of emergency management.

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