NBCC Pilot of the Multi-Agency Situational Awareness System Sandbox
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NBCC Pilot of the Multi-Agency Situational Awareness System Sandbox
The NBCC Mobile First Technology initiative conducted a pilot project to experiment with providing real-time data feeds into Canada’s Multi-Agency Situational Awareness System (MASAS).
Research topics
situation awareness, CanOps, MASAS
MFTi completed a prototype that explores the use of the Multi-Agency Situational Awareness System (MASAS), which was developed and is managed by the Canadian Public Safety Operations Organization (CanOps). MASAS is a system that enables trusted information providers to federate their real-time data such that it can be easily filtered and visualized in real-time and geographically by registered data consumers. Real-time data types include public safety alerts, weather alerts, or any other communication of an emergent nature. Potential MASAS data consumers are generally organizations that have a public safety function for their clients. Organizations of this type include schools and post-secondary institutions, public safety organizations, and public event organizers. The act of federating and provide visualization of real-time data feeds is intended to enable the data consumers to maintain situation awareness.
MFTi's MASAS prototype posts and displays real-time data to the MASAS sandbox, a test facility operated by CanOps for organizations to develop, verify, and validate their data feeds. MFTi developed custom software and hardware in its Saint John Ideaspace to collect water level data in real-time and post them to MASAS via its Restful API. The resulting data feed can then be visualized in the MASAS browser.
<indent> CanOps is a public safety organization whose membership is open to the following:
- Federal government and its departments.
- Provincial and territorial governments and their departments.
- Regional governments.
- Local and aboriginal governments,.
- Crown corporations.
- Universities, colleges, elementary and secondary school schools and school boards.
- Hospitals, regional health boards and offices recognized by the provinces and territories..
- National public service institutions, approved by the board, and departments of them having the approval of their senior management, such as, for example, Canadian Blood Services, Red Cross, Salvation Army.
- Government and non-government owned utilities, and governing bodies, including electrical and heating fuel distribution companies, telecommunications companies, cable and satellite broadcast distribution units.
- Private transportation service providers, recognized by public transportation department having oversight of them. These will include ferry operators, highway operators, and perhaps highway maintenance service providers.
- Associations and governing bodies of the aforementioned.
- Others, with the approval of the board.
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Collaborators
* Efficiency New Brunswick
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Demonstrations
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Project contact
William McIver Jr.
