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Bruce H. Varner, Chair National Fire Protection Association Technical Committee

Workshop on Emergency Management: Incident, Resource, and Supply Chain Management   November 5-6, 2009 Center for Emergency Response Technologies, UC Irvine. Bruce H. Varner, Chair National Fire Protection Association Technical Committee

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Bruce H. Varner, Chair National Fire Protection Association Technical Committee

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  1. Workshop on Emergency Management: Incident, Resource, and Supply Chain Management   November 5-6, 2009 Center for Emergency Response Technologies, UC Irvine Bruce H. Varner, Chair National Fire Protection Association Technical Committee Electronic Safety Equipment For Fire and Emergency Services Fire Chief, Santa Rosa, CA

  2. Technical Committee on Electronic Safety Equipment • NFPA 1982, Standard on Personal Alert Safety Systems (PASS), 2007 Edition • NFPA 1800, Standard on Electronic Safety Equipment for Emergency Services • NFPA 1801, Standard on Thermal Imagers for the Fire Service Proposed 2010 Edition

  3. High Priority Technology Needs

  4. Personnel monitoring (emergency responder 3-D locator system) capability—in particular, X/Y/Z accuracy of better than 1 meter in a multilevel building providing incident commanders the ability to rapidly track and effectively deply or redeploy first responders in a challenging environment (Infrastructure and Geophysical Division)

  5. Precision Indoor Personnel Location and Tracking for Emergency Responders Technology Workshop Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA Project originated in the aftermath of the fatal warehouse fire in Worcester, MA on December 3, 1999 where six firefighters lost their lives 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, Many projects, many presentations. There remains a critical need for indoor location and tracking technology by public safety departments, the military, the mining industry, and other fields where people can become lost or trapped indoors in dangerous or life-threatening situations

  6. Jalal Mapar Program Manager Infrastructure and Geophysical Division Science and Technology Directorate Department of Homeland Security Geospatial Location Accountability & Navigation System for Emergency Responders (GLANSER) • Allow emergency managers, including fire chiefs and other incident commanders, to rapidly and effectively deploy and re-deploy their forces or understand and respond to the consequences of potential threats to their forces • Accurately locate and track incident responders in X-Y-Z • Targeted situation areas • Inside of threatened buildings • Collapsed buildings • Subterranean facilities or underground

  7. RF-Based PASS Device Testing Kate A. Remley, Galen Koepke NIST Electromagnetics Division 818 Boulder, CO, USA 80305 remley@boulder.nist.gov

  8. Wireless Device Testing • Key Firefighter Environments • Outdoor-to-Indoor • Residential (single or two story) • Multi-story (large (urban) and small (suburban)) • Industrial • Subterranean • Outdoor-to-Outdoor • Line of sight • Urban canyon • There are an infinite number of environments but many share common radio characteristics • => Classify wireless environmental characteristics in terms of attenuation, multipath, interference for firefighter applications

  9. For the opportunity to be here today

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