Mobile Data Interoperability

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Mobile Data Interoperability

• Issues

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Applications

• WEB Based programs Data access XML
• Microsoft Office
• PDF Documents and Forms
• Email
• All are valuable tools and can be used for
  incident management

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Day-to-Day Interoperability

• 98 of all interoperability planned and
  coordinated
• What uses?
• On-scene mapping, plume modeling
• Air and ground based video to responders
• Fire fighter of the future
• Security issues?
• Access to Data bases Internet Based? VPN?
• Each Agency?
• Regional systems?
• Nationwide System?
• How will different systems link together?

4
Task Force Interoperability

• Wide area roaming with need for close-in
  communications among small group often not
  planned but is coordinated
• What uses?
• On-scene mapping
• Air and ground based video to responders
• Documents affidavits, search warrants, etc
• Security issues?
• Covert (LPI/LPD)
• Access to Data bases Internet Based? VPN?
• Agency? Regional? National?
• How will different systems link together?

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Mutual Aid Interoperability

• Unplanned (except conceptually), typically large
  response from wide area often many different
  incident scenes
• What uses?
• Examples
• Travel channel uploading staffing/resources
  (minimize staging)
• On-scene mapping, plume modeling
• Air and ground based video to responders
• How are out of area resources accommodated?
• How soon is interoperability needed?
• How to link back to data sources or data
  reception points?

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Unit-to-Unit (Direct Mode)

• What will it be used for?
• How will it be used?
• Is it needed?

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Mobile Data Tools

• Narrowband Data lt 30 kb/s
• Wideband data lt 300 kb/s
• Broadband data gt 300kb/s and lt 2000 kB/s
• All will be available at 700 MHz in near future
  for interoperability
• In our recent Report to Congress submitted
  pursuant to Section 7502 of the Intelligence
  Reform Act of 2004, we found that emergency
  response providers would benefit from the
  development of an integrated, interoperable
  nationwide network capable of delivering
  broadband services throughout the country.

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How to Implement?

• How do we implement mobile data interoperability,
  given the answers to questions from the previous
  slides and unknowns of future needs?
• Narrowband?
• Wideband?
• Broadband?
• A need for some of each?