Platform for Information Sharing, Prioritization, and Aggregation for Firefighters and Incident Command

With advances in technology, firefighters and incident command are now equipped with various types of sensors, communication devices, and displays to improve their safety and working efficiency at fire scenes. However, since the diversity of information sources and data volume are high, a platform for information aggregation and sharing is needed. In this paper, we describe the platform that we design to assist the firefighters at the scenes. We focus on information sharing and prioritization problems to support decision making by incident command and improve firefighter safety under dangerous scenarios. We use simulation to show the decreases in communication bandwidth brought by our system. The proposed system has the potential to improve working environment safety and living wellness of firefighters.