Firemans Digital KeyboxA work in progress for Building Emergency Response Scenario commentsBy Deborah MacPherson, Specifications and Research WDG Architecture, Projects Director Accuracy&AestheticsDebmacp@gmail.com

Combining NIST BFRL and OGC

Building Emergency Response Scenario

Following is a use case scenario of a building fire incident and covers alert generation and propagation to dispatch followed by the first responder use of building data. In addition, a table is presented that collects previous work with public safety representative in defining useful building data. This table categorizes the building data.

The scenario begins in a large commercial building

at 321 Prince Street

in a section of the third floor

that is undergoing renovation. Contractors left out some vapor-producing chemicals that have ignited after-hours, producing a small explosion and starting a fire.

The explosion disables the smoke alarm in the room

but this generates a trouble condition at the fire panel.

The fire panel generates a Common Alerting Protocol CAP alert

that is passed to the BISACS Base Server (BBS)

The alert is then passed to the subscribing central station alarm (CSA) company

that monitors the building

Upon receipt at the CSA, a representative attempts to contact the building personnel to verify the alert (smoke alarm trouble in room 310)

While the CSA representative follows procedures to verify the alert, another alert arrives

reporting a smoke alarm from the hallway outside 310

Alan Vihn NIST BFRL: “I'm not clear what you're trying to distinguished between "passing" and "transmitting" the alerts between these systems. What we are trying to work towards is some form of standard access point (SAP) between the various emergency computing facilities/networks such as the BBS, the CSA, the NG9-1-1 and the PSAP systems. Having the SAP in place and most likely it will be implemented as a web services interface, we don't really "transmit" alerts (ala radio signals) but rather connect to the various SAPs and send in the alerts via IP connections/communications (either via land lines or mobile communication).”

The CSA representative then immediately transmits these two alerts to 9-1-1 dispatch electronically, with both CAP alerts grouped together in a message. The 9-1-1 dispatch center receives the CAP alerts with data fields from the message loaded into form fields

At this point the dispatcher will see that there is a suspected fire in a commercial building at 321 Prince Street with smoke alarm trouble and alarm signals on the third floor.

Alan Vihn NIST BFRL ….that is why SAP Standard Access Point is important, if one bubble is not there, go to the next one, back to square one and no body knows about it. Eventually they talk back to the building….

Michelle Raymond Honeywell…there is alert information that can come from any level, it gets aggregated at any level, each information provider has an identifier, some will have access and will be made available when its appropriate, then would have access. What can be retrieved may be policy based, and the incident needs an identifier, is a part of the identifier you need…

Central Station Alarm Network

(CSAN)

SAP

NG9-1-1 Emergency Services IP Network

(ESInet)

Public Safety Answering Point

(PSAP)

Computer Aided Dispatch System (CAD)

PSAP communicators

STATIC - prepared ahead of time, each building and jurisdiction may be different

1 floorplan from building owners, fire department goes out to validate

2 for naming conventions for buildings, levels, spaces etc

OSHA's Interactive Floorplan Demonstration

DYNAMIC - interoperable, systematic

3 information content, would be the discrete elements relevant to safety and response

4 spatial temporal is when an incident starts, elements that change state, real time updates

Fire Department Digital KeyboxA work in progress for Building Emergency Response Scenario comments

By Deborah MacPherson, Specifications and Research WDG Architecture, Projects Director Accuracy&AestheticsDebmacp@gmail.com

Remainder of the slides will be from the BuildingInformation Model point of view as the scenario

continues on. Final slide will be just the scenariocomponents and arrows with relevant standards

overlaid - Ex: NFPA 70 and 72

Common Operating Picture