System and method for accountability by interlinking electronic identities for access control and tracking of personnel during an incident or at an emergency scene
First Claim
1. An incident management system for managing emergency responders arriving at a scene of an incident comprising:
- a plurality of cell-enabled devices each comprising memory having stored therein identification information that identifies a responder associated therewith; and
an identification collector unit for collecting identification information from said cell-enabled devices as responders report to the scene of the incident, wherein in response to the identification information, said identification collector unit accesses qualification information for each responder that identifies the qualifications of the responder associated therewith, whereby reporting responders are at least one of (a) allowed access to the incident scene and (b) assigned tasks based upon their qualifications.
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Abstract
An incident management system includes some form of portable machine-readable data 12a-12c and a collector unit 20a and optionally a manager unit 25 for receiving the machine-readable data where one or all of the portable machine-readable data 12a-12c, the collector unit 20a or the manager unit 25 is provided in the form of a cell-enabled device 15a-15d. The portable machine-readable data 12a-12c may include identification information of a person or a resource/asset. By providing the portable machine-readable data 12a-12c in the form of cell-enabled devices 15a-15d each having a GPS unit 38, the location of the responders to the incident may be tracked in real time.
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52 Claims
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1. An incident management system for managing emergency responders arriving at a scene of an incident comprising:
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a plurality of cell-enabled devices each comprising memory having stored therein identification information that identifies a responder associated therewith; and an identification collector unit for collecting identification information from said cell-enabled devices as responders report to the scene of the incident, wherein in response to the identification information, said identification collector unit accesses qualification information for each responder that identifies the qualifications of the responder associated therewith, whereby reporting responders are at least one of (a) allowed access to the incident scene and (b) assigned tasks based upon their qualifications. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. An incident management system for managing emergency responders to a scene of an incident comprising:
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at least one portable machine-readable data including machine-readable identification information that identifies a responder associated with that portable machine-readable data; and an identification collector unit for collecting identification information from said at least one portable machine-readable data as the responder reports to the scene of the incident, wherein said identification collector unit is a cell phone, wherein in response to the identification information, said identification collector unit accesses qualification information for each responder that identifies the qualifications of the responder associated therewith, whereby reporting responders are at least one of (a) allowed access to the incident scene and (b) assigned tasks based upon their qualifications. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. An incident management system for managing emergency responders to a scene of an incident comprising:
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at least one portable machine-readable data including machine-readable identification information that identifies a responder associated with that portable machine-readable data; at least one identification collector unit for collecting identification information from said at least one portable machine-readable data as the responder reports to the scene of the incident; and a manager unit for communicating with said at least one collector unit, wherein said manager unit is a cell phone. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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39. An incident management system comprising:
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a plurality of cell-enabled devices each comprising memory having stored therein identification information that identifies a resource associated with that cell-enabled device, and a GPS unit for determining a location of that cell-enabled device; and an identification collector unit for collecting identification information from said cell-enabled devices and for receiving location information from said cell-enabled devices so as to track the locations of the resources associated with said cell-enabled devices. - View Dependent Claims (40, 41)
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42. A machine-readable medium encoded with a data structure for use on at least one of:
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a cell-enabled device and a smart ID card associated with a responder responding to an incident, said data structure comprising; a plurality of linked data components associated with the responder, the data components comprising; a fixed data component including at least one of;
name, date of birth, unique ID number, gender, photo, fingerprint, and issuing agency;a variable data component including at least one of;
rank, qualifications, certifications, authorization codes, and expiration; andan incident-specific data component including personal information related to a specific incident, emergency, or event that the responder is responding to, or involved in. - View Dependent Claims (43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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51. A method of managing resources responding to an incident where a plurality of resources may respond to the incident from a plurality of interlinked communities, the method comprising:
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providing a plurality of cell-enabled devices each having a GPS unit for determining a location of the cell-enabled device; providing identification information on a cell-enabled device associated with each of the resources; collecting the identification information and location information from the cell-enabled devices of the resources associated with a first one of the plurality of interlinked communities; collecting the identification information and location information from the cell-enabled devices of the resources associated with a second one of the plurality of interlinked communities; and providing a first manager unit for the first one of the plurality of interlinked communities, where the first manager unit receives the identification information and location information from the cell-enabled devices of the resources associated with the first one of the plurality of interlinked communities and further receives the identification information and location information from the cell-enabled devices of the resources associated with the second one of the plurality of interlinked communities. - View Dependent Claims (52)
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