Public Safety Hub

Over the past decades many "isolated information technology solutions" have been developed within the field of

Unstable condition involving an impending abrupt or significant change that requires urgent attention and action to protect life, assets, property or the environment.
 

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and

Situation where widespread human, material, economic or environmental losses have occurred which exceeded the ability of the affected organisation, community or society to respond and recover using its own resources.

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management, which very specifically describe, interpret and present information for each organization. So far, it has been a particular challenge for different organizations to exchange information with one another based on different IT systems.

The new Public Safety Hub (PSH) platform enables the seamless exchange of information between federated systems of different organizations (both military and civil IT systems). The PSH improves the cooperation of

Sudden, urgent, usually unexpected occurrence or event requiring immediate action.
Note 1 to entry: An emergency is usually a disruption or condition that can often be anticipated or prepared for, but seldom exactly foreseen.

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services,

Individual, who is not affiliated with an existing incident response organization or voluntary organization but who, without extensive preplanning, offers support to the response to, and recovery from, an incident.

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organizations and citizens for the effective management of disasters. This is all the more important because when coping with disasters, processes and processes between the operating task forces must be harmonized and synchronized.

The special technological architecture of the new platform includes the secure and flexible data exchange between most diverse organizations without creating numerous dependencies and without creating single points of failures. Such a modern and flexible communication platform can easily bundle separate competencies and ensure a highly secure and efficient cooperation of different organizations in crisis situations. Fully automated data exchange between the information systems is thus ensured. This will make it possible in the future to cope with major events and catastrophes even faster and to send help to the right places even more quickly and precisely.

The PSH's federated design reflects the

The ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions.

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and division of responsibilities needs of the CM and other public safety domains. This is especially reflected in the following design qualities:

• Seamless & federated The ability of diverse systems and organisations to work together, i.e. to interoperate.

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  • Seamless information exchange between safety systems (e.g. C2-systems)
  • Federated data and system control, respecting the roles and processes of individual organizations
  • Vendor-independent data distribution with respect to the to be integrated sub-systems
• The ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions.

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  by design
  • Federated data handling and functionality, i.e.,  no central point of failure
  • Geo-redundancy of core functionalities
  • The means to accomplish one or more tasks under specific conditions.

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    to work in network partitions in network failure cases
  • Mature handling of failover cases:
    • Redundancy of functional nodes
    • Systematic awareness of failover nodes
    • Dynamic failover capabilities
    • Queuing of messages that cannot be transmitted (for a defined time to live)
    • Inspection capabilities for failover cases
• Scalability
  • Vertical scalability (local replication of functions)
  • Horizontal scalability (reflecting organizational topologies)
  • Intelligent routing reduces the load on the network
  • Support for complex system topologies and access & authorization schemes
• Smart information distribution
  • Intelligent application-level addressing and routing that does only distribute data to required recipients (in terms of a principle of data economy, following GDPR and security considerations)
  • Unique identifiers (addresses) on an application level
  • Wildcards for sharing information according to topological or organizational structures
  • Tag-based communications and addressing for content-based organization of data exchanges