SimSITE: The HLA/RTI Based Emergency Preparedness and Response Training Simulation

Many wake-up calls have been received for emergency response, due to natural disasters such as hurricanes, fires or man-made incidents. The emergency responders need to work in a coordinated, well-planned manner to best mitigate the impact of an emergency incident. Simulation systems provide a wider range of training at a much lower expense for emergency preparedness and response. It is identified as the only feasible approach when it is difficult to emulate real-life experiments. The presented research demonstrates the emergency training simulation for the SITE building at the University of Ottawa, where the real-time interaction and collaboration are achieved over HLA/RTI, the IEEE standard for distributed simulation and modeling.