Case study reprint from project partner Burns & McDonnell
Challenge
When a Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) team evaluated the newly constructed Integrated Emergency Operations Center (IEOC) after it opened in 2009, its assessment was that the IEOC was only “integrated” in name.
The organizations that occupied the center had no visibility into each other’s view of building status or security posture.
Activu partner, Burns & Mcdonnell, were asked to integrate the security and building automation systems at the Pentagon into an Advanced Emergency Response Integration Environment (AERIE), which the IEOC uses daily to respond to emergencies and provide situational awareness to first responders.
Solution
While the data integration on the COP allows for a single frame of reference view, the data from some systems cannot be integrated. To bring those systems into the context of the COP, the IEOC’s audio-visual system was updated with Activu’s software-based system. The Activu system allows force protection and building operations and maintenance operators and analysts to share views of their systems and visually integrate data and systems from secure networks with the AERIE COP into a comprehensive operational picture without bridging networks.