Command and Control Architecture

• US 20060224797A1
• Filed: 04/03/2006
• Published: 10/05/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Michael T. Mckibben, Warren G. Parish
• Original Assignee: Michael T. Mckibben, Warren G. Parish
• Inventors: Parish, Warren G., McKibben, Michael T.
• Application Number:
  US11/278,495
• Publication Number:
  US 20060224797A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/62
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/006 Alarm destination chosen according to type of event, e.g. in case of fire phone the fire service, in case of medical emergency phone the ambulance
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/14 Central alarm receiver or annunciator arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 31/00 Predictive alarm systems characterised by extrapolation or other computation using updated historic data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/024 Guidance services

Abstract

A command and control architecture that facilitates detection of a situation and, processing, notifying and communicating alerts, and calling for services. However a situation is ascertained, whether a sensor senses it, a human observes it, and/or the physical location of police cars, emergency vehicles, fire vehicles are ascertained, attributes of each of the sensors, observer, and/or assets can get passed both to a mapping component that maintains situation awareness information for presentation on a map. The attribute data is also analyzed with the results data passed to the central communications component for data and communications management, further facilitating notification and alerting of the appropriate services to get the appropriate people and equipment involved, and then linking it other data sources to further support the system functions.

Claims

1. A command and control system, comprising:

a detection component that facilitates sensing of a situation and data analysis of detection data;

a central communications component that provides data management and communications management related to the detection data; and

a mapping component that processes the detection data and presents realtime location information related to a location of the situation.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the detection component includes at least one of a sensor that senses data associated with the situation, an observer that observes the situation, and an asset associated with an area of the situation.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the mapping component includes a geographic location technology that facilitates locating at least one of the sensor, the observer, and the asset.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein at least one of the sensor, observer, and asset receive and communicate situation attributes that are analyzed.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the asset attributes are representative of a location of at least one of a fire vehicle, a medical vehicle, and a law enforcement vehicle.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the sensor attributes are representative of a at least one of chemical data, explosives data, drug data, motion data, biological data, weapons data, acoustical data, nuclear data, audio data, and video data.

7. The system of claim 4, wherein the human attributes are representative of at least one of voice data, visual data, tactile data, motion data, and audio data.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a tactical component that processes tactical data for at least one of the mapping component, the central communications component, and the detection component.

9. The system of claim 1, further comprising a security system that initiates a security action based on the detection data.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the security action includes requesting at least one of fire services, medical services, and law enforcement services.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the central communications component facilitates communications over at least one of a cellular network and an IP network.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the central communications component facilitates at least one of information rights management, voice/video and data collaboration, file management, workflow management, searching and indexing, and voice/text alerting.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein the voice/text alerting includes an alert related to detection by the detection component of at least one of nuclear data, chemical data, biological data, and radiological data.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising an external interface component that facilitates communications to a law enforcement database.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the detection component facilitates at least one of explosives analysis and drug analysis.

16. A method of facilitating a command and control architecture, comprising:

sensing event characteristics associated with an event;

analyzing the event characteristics for event data;

automatically determining location information of the event based on a geolocation technology;

transmitting the event data and the location information to a web-based central communications component;

mapping a route to the event based on the location information; and

dispatching appropriate services to the situation along the route based on the event data and the location information.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising an act of accessing tactical information related to the event.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising an act of messaging information to personnel dispatched to the event.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising an act of generating a session via the web-based communications component that facilitates group communications to selected personnel involved with addressing the event.

20. A command and control system, comprising:

means for sensing and analyzing situation data associated with a situation;

means for automatically determining location information of the situation based on a geolocation technology;

means for transmitting at least one of the situation data and the location information to a web-based central communications component;

means for accessing tactical information for related to the situation;

means for accessing environmental data related to conditions associated with the situation; and

means for dispatching security and emergency services to the situation along automatically mapped routes based on the situation data and the location information.