Incident command system

• US 20060211404A1
• Filed: 03/03/2006
• Published: 09/21/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Forcepoint Federal Holdings LLC (Francisco Partners Management LLC)
• Original Assignee: Raytheon Company (Rtx Corporation)
• Inventors: Suberri, Gilad, Cromp, Robert F.
• Granted Patent: US 7,996,465 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/405
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes

Abstract

A portable electronic command board includes a computer for inputting incident data, a database for storing incident data locally within the computer and a wireless interface, connected to the computer, to connect the computer with another computer to replicate the database on the other computer to provide a collaborative workspace environment. Furthermore a touch screen is provided to input the incident data in a manner similar to drawing on a white board.

Claims

1. A portable electronic command board comprising:

a computer for inputting incident data having a time stamp;

a database for storing incident data locally within the computer;

a wireless interface, connected to the computer, to connect the computer with other computers to replicate the database with the other computers to share the incident data with other collaborative computers.

2. The portable electronic command board as recited in claim 1 wherein the database comprises incident data from multiple users, each multiple user incident data having an individual time stamp that is related in time with each other individual time stamp.

3. The portable electronic command board as recited in claim 2 comprising a time daemon to track a difference in time from one collaborative computer to another collaborative computer and wherein the time daemon is used to provide the time stamp to the incident data.

4. The portable electronic command board as recited in claim 1 wherein a first collaborative computer creates the initial database for storing incident data.

5. The portable electronic command board as recited in claim 1 wherein a second collaborative computer copies the database for storing incident data from a first collaborative computer.

6. The portable electronic command board as recited in claim 1 comprising a device to track the location of the portable electronic command board.

7. The portable electronic command board as recited in claim 1 comprising an interface to a passive accelerometer such that the portable electronic command board notified wirelessly by the passive accelerometer when ever a user remains motionless for a specified period of time.

8. The portable electronic command board as recited in claim 1 comprising an interface to a biometric monitor such as heart rate, respiratory rate, body temperature, and oxygen saturation.

9. The portable electronic command board as recited in claim 1 comprising an interface to a self contained breathing apparatus for air consumption monitoring and detection of the presence of carbon monoxide and other toxic gases.

10. The portable electronic command board as recited in claim 1 comprising an interface to at least one from a group of biological, chemical and radiological detectors.

11. The portable electronic command board as recited in claim 1 comprising an interface to access web based information such as weather, hazardous materials information, medical and incident mitigation protocols and other emergency management information.

12. The portable electronic command board as recited in claim 1 comprising an interface to access geographic information.

13. The portable electronic command board as recited in claim 1 comprising an interface to access local transportation information.

14. The portable electronic command board as recited in claim 1 comprising an interface to access a patient management system for tracking patients and hospital status.

15. The portable electronic command board as recited in claim 1 comprising an interface to a three dimensional tracking system to track emergency personnel within a structure or tunnel.

16. An incident command system comprising:

a command post having a computer to store incident data; and

a portable electronic command board comprising;

a computer for inputting incident data;

a database for storing incident data locally within the computer;

an interface, connected to the computer, to connect the computer with the command post computer to replicate the database on the computer with the database on the command post computer to share the database with other collaborative computers.

17. The incident command system as recited in claim 16 comprising a device to track the location of the portable electronic command board and wherein incident data includes data indicative of the location of the portable electronic command board.

18. The incident command system as recited in claim 16 comprising a historical database replicated from the database for storing incident data.

19. The incident command system as recited in claim 16 wherein the incident data in the database comprises a role data field indicative of a role a user is responsible which may be transferred to another user.

20. The incident command system as recited in claim 19 wherein the role data field comprises a hierarchical command structure.

21. The incident command system as recited in claim 16 wherein one user operating a computer is able to authenticate another user operating a second computer into the system.

22. The incident command system as recited in claim 16 wherein the database comprises data from alternative data sources.

23. The incident command system as recited in claim 16 wherein the database comprises data from external data sources.

24. The incident command system as recited in claim 16 wherein the computer comprises a touch screen for inputting data from users.

25. The incident command system as recited in claim 16 wherein the database comprises data from a collaborative map application to provide layering of raster and vector data with textual, symbolic and line annotations.

26. An incident command system comprising:

a command post having a computer to store incident data operated by an incident commander, said computer comprising a database for storing the incident data locally within the computer and an interface, connected to the computer, to connect the computer with other computers to replicate the database with the other computers to share the incident data with other collaborative computers, wherein the database comprises incident data from multiple users, each multiple user incident data having an individual time stamp that is related in time with each other individual time stamp; and

a portable electronic command board comprising;

a computer for inputting incident data;

a local database for storing incident data locally within the computer;

an interface, connected to the computer, to connect the computer with the command post computer to replicate the database on the computer with the database on the command post computer to share the database with other collaborative computers, wherein each change to incident data by a user is pushed to the other collaborative computers.