Mailman
Mailman is a low level communication protocol designed for soft real-time control of mobile robots through a wireless network.
The need for a new protocol arises because wireless communication introduces problems that have been solved already in wired networks.
Point to point latency in a wireless network is typically in the order of a few to several tens of milliseconds. By contrast, an…
REFIRE
Refire is a research project running for two years (2012-2013), co-funded by the European Commission, Directorate-General Home Affairs in the framework of the call “CIPS Action Grants 2010”.
The project aims to the adoption of effective location and communication services for indoor and deep-indoor emergencies and define a set of standards and protocols able to enable daily use of…
REFIRE European Project kick-off in Rome
Whatever the origin of an emergency, a response fast and effective enough can drastically change the resulting losses. Rescuers know well how to do, however there is still room for improvement. In particular during the first phases, when the first few responders have to assume more risks having the opportunity to block the escalation of the incident into a higher scale emergency, and after on,…
IES Solutions at the 2nd International Conference on interoperability, Venezia, May 19th, 2011
On May 19th, 2011 at the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, in Venezia, Italy, the "2nd International Conference on interoperability" will be held .
The conference will focus on the impact of interoperability on first responders' response, current preparedness, open issues and room for improvements, as well as the recent evolution of International, European and National applicable standards and…
I Vigili del Fuoco vincitori del premio nella categoria “Salvaguardia del territorio” al III Salone internazionale delle Tecnologie per la sicurezza
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Il progetto del Corpo Nazionale dei Vigili del Fuoco "Sistema interoperabile per la gestione degli interventi negli incendi boschivi" è stato indicato dalla giuria preposta come vincitore per la categoria "Salvaguardia del territorio" e riceverà l'ambito premio nel pomeriggio di lunedì 17 maggio nell'ambito di TECHFOR 2010: il 3° Salone internazionale delle…
The Jixel data structure
Jixel use CAP (Common Alerting Protocol) as data structure. CAP is the standard XML data format JIXEL uses to manage information about incident location and other relevant data.
It contains an alert block with generic incident information, multiple info blocks with multilingual detailed information, multiple resource blocks for attaching multimedia content and multiple area blocks to define the…
Information sharing tackles emergencies in Italy, and beyond! [/lang_en]
ICT Results has jut published an article on the recent adoption of CAP by the Italian Ministry of the Interior. This is one of the results of the REACT project. The article follows:
Fast reactions and the smooth exchange of information are critical to containing emergency situations. Following a decision by the Italian government on information sharing between emergency services, fire-fighting…
IES Solutions presents REACT at the TIEMS 2008 congress in Prague
IES solutions will present REACT
a the TIEMS 2008 congress in Prague.
TIEMS is dedicated to developing and bringing the benefits of modern emergency management tools and techniques to society for a safer world.
It aims at exchanging information of the use of innovative methods and technologies to improve our ability to avoid mitigate, respond and recover from natural and technological…