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Technological and Methodological Solutions for Integrated Wide Area Situation Awareness and Survivor Localisation to Support Search and Rescue Teams (INACHUS)
Start date: Jan 1, 2015, End date: Dec 31, 2018,
Crisis incidents result in difficult working conditions for Urban Search-and-Rescue (USaR) crews. INACHUS aims to achieve a significant time reduction and increase efficiency in USaR operations by providing:1.Simulation tools for estimating the locations of survival spaces (after a structural collapse) and identify the location of survivors for different construction types and building materials2. ...
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Foresight Tools for Responding to cascading effects in a crisis (FORTRESS)
Start date: Apr 1, 2014, End date: Mar 31, 2017,
FORTRESS will identify and understand cascading effects by using evidence-based information from a range of previous crisis situations, as well as an in-depth analysis of systems and their mutual interconnectivity and (inter-)dependency. FORTRESS will seek to intervene in current crisis response practices by bridging the gap between the over-reliance on unstructured information collection on one s ...
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Integrated ICT Solutions for Smart Personal Protective Equipment for Fire Fighters and First Responders (Smart@Fire)
Start date: Nov 15, 2012, End date: Mar 14, 2017,
Fostering innovation through Pre-commercial procurement (PCP) has received renewed impetus by the EC and the launch of initiatives in several EU countries. The potential of PCP is generally recognized; however, no large scale projects have been carried out where several countries join their efforts procurers encounter bottlenecks in the implementation of the PCP concept.Smart@Fire has two main obj ...
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Opti-Alert: Enhancing the efficiency of alerting systems through personalized, culturally sensitive multi-channel communication (Opti-Alert)
Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,
The objective of this project proposal is to develop an alerting tool that(a) allows for a rapid simulation of the impact of different alerting strategies (depending on the selected media-mix and current availability of communication media), (b) supports the composition of the optimal mix of communication channels (individualized alerting channels and mass media), (c) improves alert compliance thr ...
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Aftermath Crisis Management System-of-systems Demonstration (ACRIMAS)
Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: May 31, 2012,
"Crisis management (CM) is a core capability of modern societies, but a highly diversified and heterogeneous area. Current CM in the EU can be regarded as a “system-of-systems” integrating diverse organisations and components with different cultures, policies and assets, and various stakeholders and procurement schemes. ACRIMAS understands the term “system-of-systems” that it incorporates technolo ...
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