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. A non-transitory machine-readable medium for use in an identification collector unit of an incident management system for managing emergency responders arriving at a scene of an incident, the identification collector unit including a processor and a communication interface under control of the processor, said machine-readable medium being encoded with instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute the steps comprising:
- controlling the communication interface to collect identification information from a plurality of cell-enabled devices as responders report to the scene of the incident;
in response to receiving the identification information, accessing qualification information for each responder that identifies the qualifications of the responder associated therewith; and
at least one of (a) determining if a reporting responder is allowed access to the incident scene and (b) assigning a task to the reporting responder, based upon their qualifications.
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Abstract
An incident management system includes some form of portable machine-readable data and a collector unit and optionally a manager unit for receiving the machine-readable data where one or all of the portable machine-readable data, the collector unit or the manager unit is provided in the form of a cell-enabled device. The portable machine-readable data may include identification information of a person or a resource/asset. By providing the portable machine-readable data in the form of cell-enabled devices each having a GPS unit, the location of the responders to the incident may be tracked in real time.
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1. A non-transitory machine-readable medium for use in an identification collector unit of an incident management system for managing emergency responders arriving at a scene of an incident, the identification collector unit including a processor and a communication interface under control of the processor, said machine-readable medium being encoded with instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute the steps comprising:
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controlling the communication interface to collect identification information from a plurality of cell-enabled devices as responders report to the scene of the incident; in response to receiving the identification information, accessing qualification information for each responder that identifies the qualifications of the responder associated therewith; and at least one of (a) determining if a reporting responder is allowed access to the incident scene and (b) assigning a task to the reporting responder, based upon their qualifications. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A non-transitory machine-readable medium for use in an identification collector unit of an incident management system for managing emergency responders arriving at a scene of an incident, the identification collector unit being a cell-enabled device with a processor and a communication interface under control of the processor, said machine-readable medium being encoded with instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to execute the steps comprising:
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controlling the communication interface to collect identification information from at least one portable machine-readable data associated with a responder as the responder reports to the scene of the incident; in response to receiving the identification information, accessing qualification information for each responder that identifies the qualifications of the responder associated therewith; and at least one of (a) determining if a reporting responder is allowed access to the incident scene and (b) assigning a task to the reporting responder, based upon their qualifications. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14)
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15. 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 physically separate from the at least one portable machine-readable data 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-enabled device. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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