Gideon Hazzani (VERINT) – ESS coordinator

ESS vision

Concept and architecture

Operational applications overview

Main objectives

A portable actionable intelligence system that enables
improved management, decision support and command and
control of major crisis events:
◦ Terror attacks
◦ Industrial accidents
◦ Natural disasters
◦ Radiologic event
◦ Chemical agents attack
◦ Forest fire
◦ Other

The ESS is not C4I or C3 system, yet it significantly improves

existing C4I and C3 systems by interfacing to them
 The coordinator:

3 end users: 3 research institutes: 11 industrial organizations:

 Disease Outbreaks Hazardous Materials
Terrorism & Biological Events or Chemical Spills Fire

Building Extreme
Collapses or Heat
Explosions

Emergency
Utilities
Disruptions Radiation
Exposure

Winter Thunderstorms, Flash Coastal Storms Earthquakes

Weather Floods and Lightning & Hurricanes
 Random Location
Stress
Panic
The greater the
Disorder
uncertainty, the more
loss of life and damage to
public property

Uncertainty
 Increasing number of catastrophic events

September 11 Avian bird flu Madrid and London bombings Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
and SARS

When and where Independent,

portable and quickly
will the next strike
deployable
take place?
information and
control system

Be prepared for the next catastrophic event at random location

Infrustructure collapse
◦ Existing communication system
◦ Mechanism to communicate with the public (London Bombings)

Minimize the uncertainty

◦ The need to create actionable intelligence in a state of chaos
◦ Automatic information sharing between local authorities and across
country borders

Minimizing Uncertainty =
Minimizing loss of life and public damage

Rescue forces (Red Cross, Fire Department)

Law enforcement

Municipal/regional authorities

Home-land security agencies

Crisis management organizations

Environmental Care authorities

Possibly Private Entities
 Real Time Data Fusion
Data & Mediation
Collection WEB Based Portal
Technologies (Control Center, PDA)
Broadband
Wireless
Affected Area Communication Analysis

Flexible business model and supply chain

Various
End Users C4
C4I and C3
C3
* Open i/f –based on OGC standards (Information Sharing)

Full interoperability between the system
elements

Multiple vendors

Plug and play
◦ Flexibility to add new applications at the ESS portal
◦ Flexibility to add new sensors
◦ Flexibility to interface to different and many end-
users C4I and C3

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 Staff/Public reports

Pop-up Server GIS Maps

Chemical &
Radiation sensors

Traffic Congestion
Management
Acoustic
catastrophic
Sensors Materials and
Radiation

Web based applications

Meteorological
Centers
Detection Server People Presence &
Density Wide-View

Alerts
Weather Server

Field Real Time Data

Weather sensors

Data Data
Web based
Pop-up news and

Collection
messages
Fusion & Fusion
Mediation
ESS
Portal
Intelligent
Intelligent Video
System C&C portal
Technologies
Cameras
Mediation
Computer Aided
Dispatch System
Hazards
Management

Weather Reports

Cellular probes
Mobile Telecom
Location & Decision Support
Wi-
Wi-Max/Wi-
Max/Wi- Presence Server
Fi probes

Staff Location
GPS Tracking Tracking
Server

WEB based applications

PDA version

Applications are accessed through the ESS portal

Municipal

Fire Department

Red Cross
Police

Spatial video streaming from the field

Commands based on GIS capabilities integrated with
UAV/Aerostat/Ground-Vehicle

Downstream
◦ Broadcast information and
alerts to the public and/or
emergency staff in the
affected areas

Upstream
◦ Staff reports from the field
to be popped-up
(broadcasted) at the ESS
screen
◦ Field-sensor alerts
◦ Intelligent video alerts Base Station
 Warning Text Visual Information
GIS message (VI)
Message

Universal Alerts System

Call Text, VI Call ,SMS, Call , FAX E-mail + Text & VI, Trigge
r Text
MMS Instant Message + VI

CELL BROADCAS / PLMN ISDN/PSTN VoIP/NGN INTERNET

DVBH NETWORK 2G/3G
PAGING NETWORK

Mobile Phones/ DVBH Sirens/ Panels/ Radio /

Satellite Phones receivers Pagers Towers Signs TV

Effective and rapid evacuation of public

Identify traffic travel time at main roads

Traffic lights control

Real-time geographic view of mobile user density and distribution
("Mass E-911")

Zooming scalability from street level to county level

Essential for creating a “sterilized zone” where fast mass-evacuation

is required

‘Zoom Out’ ‘Zoom In’

2 mobiles in
the Sterilized
Zone

Real-time spatial estimation and GIS 3D visualization of risks
and hazards

Poisonous chemical leakage and radioactive radiation

Dependency on the wind and weather conditions

Degree of risk (poisonous material concentration)

Weather is significant parameter in
catastrophic events
◦ Micro

Real time display of weather
conditions in affected area

Wind strength and direction

Temperature

Humidity

Rain

Snow

◦ Macro

Wide area weather online report
and forecast

Enabled by connection to
meteorological institute

Enable real-time synchronization and information sharing
between all involved first responders and authorities
◦ At the site of the incident (police, rescue, firefighters etc.)
◦ Out-of-theater authorities (municipalities , homeland security)
◦ Can be linked in by independent C3 (web based)

Provide relevant yet comprehensive information that is
actually needed for critical decisions

Open architecture
◦ Open interfaces (API)
◦ Full interoperability (OGC standards)

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Look and feel according to end-
user insights

Generic system fits major types
of catastrophic events

Portable

Independent

Can be used by all relevant
authorities simultaneously

Flexible business model
◦ Different parts of the system can
be owned by different authorities
due to the interoperability and
open interfaces

Project kick-off June 2009

4 years duration: 2009-2013

3 field tests in Europe 2013:
◦ French-
French-Italian border:
border forest fire
initiated by airplane crash
◦ France: mass evacuation of Nimes
stadium during crowded event
◦ Italy: Aosta municpal dump–situated
near highway and the Dora Baltea city
river

Associated dangersKchemicals and other
toxins, risk of explosion
Thank you !
www.ess-project.eu

info@ess-project.eu

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