Monitoring and Alarming in Real Time on the Example of PSI econtrol

1. Monitoring and Alarming in Real Time on the Example of PSIecontrol In Case of Flood Disaster Alarming and Informing • situational • quickly • individually • safely Stefan Löffler

2. insufficient Report of the independent Commission of the Saxon Government concerning the flood 2002 General (ret.) Kirchbach: The warning and alarming system was insufficient. The warning and alerting system was insufficient. Flood warnings were incomplete and were not distributed quickly enough. So the citizens were warned too late. http://www.stern.de/politik/panorama/510981.html?eid=501408

3. too slow Bird flu causes emergency state on the island of Ruegen Schweriner Volkszeitung: Crisis management was hesistant Federal officials were angry about the hesistating of country’s and the local officals Virologist Alexander Kekulé: Officials’ crisis management was a catastrophe Quelle: http://www.n24.del

4. too slow SPD politicians inform themselves in Hitzacker about disaster control during Elbe floodPress Release I-14/170 from 24.09.2002 Collmann: Especially information flow has to be improved „… But also a good disaster control still can be improved.” Collmann sees need for improvement especially in the area of information flow. But also decision makers have to be informed more reliable about the complete situation. 2002 Quelle: http://www.spd-landtag-nds.de/web/content.jsp?nodeId=5475&lang=de

5. too slow SPD politicians inform themselves in Hitzacker about disaster control during Elbe floodPress Release No. 15-136 from 10.04.06 Bartling: „Already at the beginning of April the warning bells should have rung“ SPD intensifies criticism on crisis management of the country‘s government : It is absolutely not understandable that the country’s government has reacted as recently as this weekend, the SPD politician said. 2006 http://www.spd-landtag-nds.de/web/content.jsp?nodeId=8123&lang=de

6. The other side: Sächsisches Landeshochwasserzentrum (Central Saxon Flood Information Office) “Our main goal is to give the responsible officials 5 hours and 59 minutes for disaster prevention when we discover that the flood will arrive in 6 hours.” “With PSIecontrol we are able to inform the officials directly and in time." Uwe Höhne, Leader of the Central Saxon Flood Information Ofice

7. Communication Platform Control unit Profile management Observer control system Information distribution/Alarming Scheduling system Public Platform Information Management System Visualisation Extern Data Import Daten Dokumente Control Data Monitoring Data Documents Data Delivery Editorial system Architecture PSIecontrol

8. Hotline Public Alarming from control centre PSIalert Profile Management Measure Management Documents Controlling Escalation Closed User Group Document Generation Manual Alarm Measured Value Monitoring Confirmation Crisis management

9. Working Environment

10. Web interface

11. Monitoring Gauge Values

12. User Notification Profile

13. Some typical control room windows

14. Conclusions • Technology is not simple. But much more is feasible than the responsible authorities are willing to implement. • Good Technology like in Saxony enables hydrologists to concentrate on their real job. They are released from all administrative and technological tasks. • The Human Factor is the weakest element in the warning chain. • Information Chains have to be defined and implemented according a system to be implemented • or • A system has to be defined and implemented according the Information Chain.

15. Contact Stefan Löffler Dircksenstraße 42-44 D-10178 Berlin (Mitte) Germany Telefon: +49/30/2801-1355 Telefax: +49/30/2801-298-1355 E-Mail: sloeffler@psi.de You can find us and our system on the exhibition area www.psi.de