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Semantic Technology & Business Conference 2013

Esther Eberwijn — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:34:27 +0000

On June the 5th Bart van Leeuwen and Moritz Hoffmann will talk during Semantic Technology & Business Conference in San Francisco, United States.

They will give a presentation about the semantic technologies used at various fire departments. With this project netage.nl has gained a lot of attention over the past 2,5 years in both semantic technology field as well as fire deparments. In this presentation they will tell the story from the early beginnings, a dive into the technology used and a outlook to the future.

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First RESC.Info deployment in Switzerland

Bart van Leeuwen — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:00:10 +0000

On February 8th 2013 we deployed the first RESC.Info monitor installation in Switzerland. The Murten fire department in the Canton of Fribourg will be using our system within the BREF MissionFusion project for the coming 3 years to gain experience with our new approach of information management for emergency responders. The Murten fire department is really enthusiastic since they are a regional support point they have to go to incidents up 35km away. Local knowledge is practically non existing at those locations so the RESC.Info monitor gives them a good first hint on where to go.

This installation was made possible through the support of the BREF MissionFusion project. Together with the Bern University of Applied Sciences and netlabs.org. netage.nl acts as the specialists in the emergency response field where our practical experience has shown its great value. The BFH will provide the infrastructure and contacts to the various government agencies. netlabs.org will provide the various government agencies with tools to generate and publish linked open data.

While installing the first screens at the Murten fire station it was great to see the various fire fighter coming in and being enthusiastic at the first glimpse of the screen. Together with Adrian Gschwend of netlabs.org we had lively discussion about where we could get more data for the system.
We were able to guide the discussions based on our long running practical experience with both emergency response and information management.

The conclusion for all parties was clear, this is going to be a interesting and long running partnership to make the work of fire fighters in Murten safer.

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First phase RESC.Info proof of concept at Safety Region Twente Evaluated

Bart van Leeuwen — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:41:10 +0000

Today the first phase of the RESC.Info proof of concept at Safety Region Twente was evaluated. Since September 1st 2012 Safety Region Twente and netage.nl conducted a test to investigate the usability of the system in Twente

The intention of the proof of concept was to get answers to the following questions:

Will the connection to the GMS dispatch system work as expected
Does the system provide the same added value in Enschede as it does at the stations of Amsterdam
How does the system fit in the existing infrastructure of Twente
Can the alternate dispatch method of Twente be implemented in the system.

The evaluation did not just include the operation of the current implementation, but also included an outlook at the next steps.

Deployment from Station Enschede with RESC.Info.monitor in changing area

The following points were evaluated:

The connection to GMS works fine. The chosen method generates the correct data to feed the RESC.Info system
The team at station Enschede is enthusiastic about the added value the monitor brings.
The deployment methods used in Twente can be integrated in the system
The IBM WebSphere and DB2 environments were easy to deploy in the existing IT infrastructure

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