Crisis, Disaster and Emergency Management LVC Training Architecture

Marco Biagini [email protected]

Agenda • CDEM Scenarios and Levels • EOC Training Audiences and Requirements • Virtual Worlds, Social Learning and access to on-line training • Wildfire EM Scenario, Virtual EOC and LVC Architecture • CDEM LVC ARCHITECTURE • USE CASE • Conclusions • Next Gen Trends

CDEM Scenarios

• Climate Change and Natural Disasters (Floods, Droughts, Heat /Cold Waves, Hurricanes, Wildfires, Earthquakes, Tsunami, Cyclones, Volcanic Eruptions, ...)

• Socio Economic Factors – Growth of Urbanisation (Public Order Management and crowd /riot control , WFE resources, ...) – Terrorism

L3-L5 Emergency Levels • Require Emergency Management Teams Deployment to an Emergency Operation Center (L3 and above) – Policy Group (Command staff) – Operations Group (General Staff) Teams’ activities and responsibilities are higly dynamic and changing with circumstances of the emergency Policy Group EMT

Ext./Gov authorities

EOC Operations Group

Incident Commander

First First responders responders

EOC Training Audiences (TA) Interagencies and Interservices Professionals , Volunteers and military (CIMIC) EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT TEAMS (L3-5) Primary TA • Individuals – EOC Commanders, Senior officers , staff , specialists and Liaison officers

• Collective – EOC Senior officers , staff/specialist and Liaison officers – Units Commanders (CIMIC)

Emergency Management Teams Training Requirements • Emergency Operation Center (EOC) EMT Familiarization (individual training) – Be familiar with the Emergency Command Post layout environment – Be familiar with workspace, applications, tools and systems – Be familiar with standard tasks and duty activities related to the assigned job position

• EOC Emergency Management Team working Skills development (collective Social Learning Training) – be able to collaborate and participate to cross functional team building activities (collective) – Improving ad hoc cross functional team skills for SME – Meet and familiarize with the colleagues personnel has to hand over with – Meet and familiarize with the team it is supposed the personnel will going to work within

Firefighting EM Scenarios • Urban Fire < - > Wildfire • Critical Infrastructure (Oil/Gas plants)

CFA/QFRS • Innovative computer-based simulation offers many advantages for training emergency responders • The new technology has the potential to improve emergency and disaster management capability by using internet-based “virtual classrooms” • A critical advantage is the ability to delivery this technology to remote locations using the internet • Computer Simulation-Enhanced training is easily repeatable and less-resource intensive • Allows for ‘in-situ’ training, making it more accessible to members, especially volunteers • Can allow for training and exercising of situations that are not possible in any other format • Computer Simulation-Enhanced training is still very new to the fire service, especially in Australia

Access to Training • On-line solutions using a virtual campus approach: – Virtual Worlds and serious games – Interactive, Social learning portals integrated with eLMS, Virtual and Constructive simulators

Virtual Worlds and Social Learning EMERGENCY OPERATION CENTER web based environment •No software downloads •Integration with immersive wireless HMD, virtual gloves and sensors •M&S simulation services using 3D web plug-in •Intuitive Data representation and Visualization •Embedded interaction with external remote desktop (C2IS) •Social Learning tools “TinCan”

Immersive EOC

Collective Training

LVC TRAINING ARCHITECTURE SUPPORTING WILDIFRE SCENARIOS

State/Region Emergency operation Center

SIMWORLD Virtual Worlds Sim

GESI EM

Live Sim

Constructive Sim

Role Players

Virtual Sim (immersive)

Individual/Collective Training

Director of Firefighting operations

Pilots

Modelli Diffusione Fuoco

Tiger

Pilots Team Leaders Response Cells

Special tasks Operators (Pilots, firefighters, Volunteers, Police, Ambulance...), drivers (special veichles)...

CDEM LVC Multi-Level Training Architecture EMERGENCY OPERATION CENTER Commander and staff

Collective

SIMWORLD C2IS

Virtual Worlds Sim

Units, responce cells

Role Players Live Sim

Constructive Sim

CDEM Models

Virtual Sim (immersive)

Individuals

Incident Commander

Operators with special tasks (Pilots, firefighters, Police, Ambulance...), drivers (special veichles)...

Collective Training

Emergency operation center, Senior Officers/Commanders, staff and liason officers

SIMWORLD

LVC TRAINING ARCHITECTURE SUPPORTING PUBLIC ORDER MANAGEMENT SCENARIOS

Virtual Worlds Sim

Live Sim

Response Cells

Constructive Sim

Role Players Virtual Sim (immersive)

Individual/Collective Training

Team Commanders

Negotiators

Modelli IA

Special tasks Operators (Pilots, firefighters, Police, Ambulance...), drivers (special veichles)...

Conclusions • Next Generation on-line LVC simulation and Serious Games enable new “in-situ” training capabilities • Rigorous training needs and analysis to choose the right individual and collective (multilevel) training solution within a sustainable LVC architecture • Challenges... Cultural resilience and risk in adopting too innovative solutions may compromise effective training – focus on personnel and not on technology

Next Gen Trends • On-line training solutions seems to promise the most cost effective solutions but they aren’t a comprehensive training panacea • ubiquitous broadband and Cloud technology represent new frontiers.... • Novel use cases to develop a common LVC Simulation architecture for training, analysis and support to operations

Simulation as a Service Is it going to be the Next Gen simulation paradigm?!?

QUESTIONS TIME…

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