A Common Information Infrastructure for Multi Command Center System

Abstract

In recent years, various natural and social security problems are happening with increasing frequency. Many provinces’ governments begin to construct emergency command system. Most of these command system constructed base on original sub-systems. Because these sub-systems use private protocol, use different data management program. It’s difficult to share information between these sub-systems. Current solution is to create a top level command centers to manage and schedule all sub-systems. This solution is easy and cheap to construct, but it has many defeats. It’s difficult to share information between sub-systems. It’s difficult to re-use information under the condition of sub-system command system crashed. It’s difficult to develop software under so many private protocols. In this paper, we present a new information infrastructure for emergency command system. This system provide a common information store and query interface, all command center with proper access rights can query data from this system. Using this information infrastructure, each sub-system command center can update to emergency command center in emergency condition. As a result, the sub-system can share information accurately and quickly. And it’s easy to develop application under these common message exchange infrastructure.