2016 gisco track: gis and emergency response the critical role of gis in a 911 enivironment by kim mc andrews and heather hoelting
1. GIS and Emergency Response
THE CRITICAL ROLE OF GIS IN A 9-1-1 ENVIRONMENT
2. Who We Are
• Metropolitan Area Communications
Center (MetCom) is a bureau of South
Metro Fire Rescue
• Secondary Public Safety Answering Point
(PSAP)
• Fire and EMS dispatch services for 6 fire
departments
• Jefferson Arapahoe Consolidated CAD
(JACC)
• GIS maintenance for 17 fire departments, 6
secondary PSAPs, 4 counties, and 23 cities
• Total of 98 Fire Stations across 2,137 square
miles
• GIS analytics and reporting
3.
4. Analytics and Reporting
• ISO Rating Analysis
• DriveTime Analysis
• Quarter andAnnual Reporting
• Station Detail
• Number of calls by incident type
• 90th Percentile for response times
• Population density
• Call density
• Station LocationAnalysis
• Map support for various departments
5. Purpose of GIS Data
in a 9-1-1
Environment
• Vehicular routing/AVL
• Closest unit analysis /
recommendations
• Address location
• Premises and Caution Notes
• Response areas
• PrePlans
• Map Books
• NextGen 9-1-1
6. Data Updates
• Adams Co
• Arvada
• Arapahoe Co
• Aurora
• Centennial
• Denver Co
• Douglas Co
• Evergreen
• Jefferson Co
• Lakewood
• Littleton
• NCR
• DRCOG
• Pictometry
GIS Data Load into CAD
GIS Integration(QA/QC)
Schema Conversion/Data Compare
Acquire Data
• Line
• Life Safety
• Map Book redlines
• Dispatch
• Email lists from
cities, counties,
etc.
Primary Data Sources
Notifications from. . .
7. Challenges for maintaining GIS data
• Multiple Data Sources
• Errors from source data
• Notification
• Duplicate street names/Aliases
• Address Issues / Unique areas for dispatch
needs
• Street ranges
• Topology
• CADVendor
8. Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD)
Incoming 9-1-1 Call
and Geo-validation
•MSAG / ANI/ALI
Problem Nature
Vehicle
recommendation
and dispatch
Vehicle routing with
mobile unit using
street network
9. Incoming 9-1-1 Call
and Geo-validation
•MSAG / ANI/ALI
Problem Nature
Vehicle
recommendation
and dispatch
Vehicle routing with
mobile unit using
street network
10. Incoming 9-1-1 Call
and Geo-validation
•MSAG / ANI/ALI
Problem Nature
Vehicle
recommendation
and dispatch
Vehicle routing with
mobile unit using
street network
Kim
South Metro, West Douglas, Sable Altura, Bennett, Byers, Strasburg
Focus of this presentation is a high level view of the importance of GIS in the 911 industry. We could dive deeper but we only have a half hour.
Area broken up by PSAP.
Over 1 million in population
Over 2,000 sq miles
Kim
Quick slide to show analysis and reporting, which can be done when you have a good data set created for 9-1-1. But this isn’t the focus of the class.
Heather
Due to our customization of the data for CAD, we don’t dump and replace. We update on a continuous basis and that is why city and county updates are so important.
Heather
Constant Updates from multiple sources
Data Standardization – time consuming
Notification: We are not always notified when a change happens
New street
New subdivision
Change in address
Address issues: address on wrong block
Boundary discrepancies are time consuming but awesome when done
Kim
The next few slides are to briefly look into how a call is handled in CAD – the life cycle of a call
Incoming 9-1-1 call – first to MSAG, then Primary PSAP, the transfers to MetCom if fire or EMS call
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Analog to IP
Consolidated routing system
Instead of a table look up call routing will use GIS data to route the call to the appropriate Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)
Transition involves multiple parties and lots of $$$.
I3 Standard – End to end IP Connectivity.
Several parties involved, it seems that is the reason NextGen is being tackled at the State Level for the transition.
In a next-generation environment, CAD will still be used to coordinate emergency response.
Enhanced CAD capabilities in conjunction with mobile radio systems will be capable of linking 9-1-1 call processing functionality and vast amounts of enhanced data in order to deliver life-saving information to the field in the most effective way possible.
GIS Data is required
Road network
Topologically sound (all boundaries and streets snapped together)
Standardized schema (NENA)
QA/QC
Enhanced CAD capabilities
We have business cards if you would like one. Feel free to give us a call and we’ll have you over at MetCom for a tour.