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Web Adapters. To EM Constellation. Matthew Cronin Administration Manager Palm Beach County Division of Emergency Management [email protected] or 561-712-6320. Web Services. EM Constellation. Local EM Software. Internet. Richard Butgereit [email protected] - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
1Web Adapters
Richard [email protected] Information Management Section HeadFlorida Division of Emergency Management850-413-9907
To EM Constellation
EM Constellation
Local EMSoftware
Internet
Web Services
Matthew CroninAdministration Manager
Palm Beach CountyDivision of Emergency Management
[email protected] or 561-712-6320
Jeff AlexanderDirector of Preparedness ProgramsNortheast Florida Regional Council
[email protected] or 904-279-0885 x 134
Charles ChrisOperations and Planning Coordinator
Brevard County Emergency [email protected]
or 321-637-4087
EM Constellation• EM Constellation is a web-based platform adopted by the State of Florida as an information management solution for emergency management. • The platform allows county, state, federal and mutual aid entities to use the same operating environment when responding to and recovering from an emergency. • Requests for assistance may be made through the platform, these requests approved and tasked as missions, and tracked throughout their life cycle. • Information messages like situation reports, press releases, and incident action plans may also be shared through the platform.
C-O-T-S Systems• Commercial Off-the-Shelf emergency management solutions are also used by numerous partners, namely by several counties…
The Challenge
EM Constellation
Local EMSoftware
Internet
Local EM
Statewide EM
• Partners are having to duplicate efforts, entering information into both their local systems as well as the state’s system.
EM Constellation
Local EMSoftware
Internet
Local EM
Statewide EM
The Solution• Build a web services interface to the EM Constellation.• Enhance local systems with the ability to interact with EM
Constellation through web services.
Web Services
History• Beginning in the spring of 2009, a project was undertaken to create web services for EM Constellation.• Concurrent with that project, a separate project was undertaken with the Northeast Florida Council and ESI, the makers of WebEOC, to develop an adapter for their product to interface directly with these web services, moving information from one system to the other, ensuring updated information across the platforms.• Later, in winter of 2010, a project was kicked off with Brevard County and NC4, the makers of E-Team, to develop similar capabilities for their platform.
What are “web services”• “Web services” are application programming interfaces, or
API’s, that are accessed via the web.• A “web service” is a software system designed to support
interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.
EM Constellation
Local EMSoftware
Internet
Web Services
EMC Web Services
EMC Web Services
The Solution• “Web services” are application programming interfaces, or
API’s, that are accessed via the web.• A “web service” is a software system designed to support
interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network.
EM Constellation
Local EMSoftware
Internet
Web Services
The Solution• Local emergency management software platforms must also
develop capabilities to interact with the EMC web services, using the inter to connect from your local system, both retrieving and posting information to EM Constellation.
EM Constellation
Local EMSoftware
Internet
Web Services
WebEOC• As previously mentioned, concurrent with the project to
develop the EMC Web Services, a project was also undertaken with the Northeast Regional Council and ESI to create adapters for WebEOC.
• This project wrapped up in the spring of 2010, and since then, ESI has been working with several counties to implement the adapter along with their local installations of WebEOC.
Web EOC
ETeam• As previously mentioned, a project was undertaken in
spring 2010 with Brevard County and NC4 to create adapters for ETeam.
• This project is currently ongoing, and is a few weeks away from beta testing.
• Users will be able to:• Create and view their county’s Info Messages• Generate Mission Requests from the ETEAM Resource
Request• Create a County Sitrep attachment by extracting data
from the ETEAM Jurisdiction Sitrep and include it in an EMC Info Message
An EMC Info Message is created by ETeam if the “OK to Update” box on the EMC Sitrep Tab is checked. Information from the ETeam Report populates matching fields on the Info Message and adds additional information as an attachment.
Other Eteam/EMC Tabs • The Info Message and Mission Request Tabs will function in a
similar fashion but their formats are still in work. • Info Messages will be associated to an ETeam Emergency Event
Report and the TAB will include an option to create a new message or to select an existing message from a pick-list of the agency’s Info Messages listed under the corresponding EMC Incident
• Mission Requests will be associated to a corresponding ETeam Resource Request by a TAB on the ETeam Report and data will update and flow automatically between the ETeam Report and the Mission Request.
• Formats have been installed on the Brevard County Eteam Training system and are being tweaked right now and we expect to start Beta Testing interactively with EMC by the end of the month
ETeam
Conclusion• EMC Web Services are an example of a cutting-edge technology
projects of the Florida Division of Emergency Management and the Florida State Emergency Response Team to streamline the work flows of our local partners, and improve emergency management.
• Regional collaborations are also building capacities, sharing costs, and improving communication…
Southeast FL REMCS Committees
• Executive Committee Bill Johnson, Palm Beach
Chuck Lanza, Broward Curt Sommerhoff, Miami-Dade
Irene Toner, Monroe• Steering Committee
Matt Cronin, Regional CoordinatorBilly Weinshank, PBC - Soheila Ajabshir, Miami-Dade Bob Humple, Broward - Jose Tezanos, Monroe
• Technical - IT technical specialists from each County22
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Regional (Esi Hosted)
Monroe Co.
Miami-Dade Co.
Broward Co.
Palm Beach Co.
Regional Emergency Management Collaboration System (REMCS)
Municipality
Municipality
Phase IPhase II
Phase III
WebFusion Municipality
Timeline• System Administrator Training Oct 08• Regional System Fully Operational Dec 08• County Systems Fully Operational May 09• WebFusion ™ Implementation Feb 10• UAWG Unanimously Votes – Feb 10 “WebEOC as Repository for Region”• REMCS Committee Sets Regional Feb 10 Board Requirements• Regional Board Development Mar-Sept 10• Customizations & Enhancements Ongoing 24
Regional Boards• Regional Asset Management System (RAMS)• Regional Significant Events• Regional Status
EOC ActivationGov Office StatusSchool StatusMunicipal StatusEvacuationsCounty Disaster Declaration Status
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Regional Boards (cont.)
• Shelters• Hospitals• Road and Bridge
Closures• Press Releases• Situation Reports• Incident Action Plans