Digital & Innovative Technologies for Security & Efficiency of First responder operations

1. The DITSEF project aims at increasing the effectiveness and safety of First Responders by optimal information gathering and sharing with their command levels. DITSEF will provide: Self-organising, robust ad-hoc communications where the existing infrastructure may be compromised, allowing communication between First Responders and between them and their command level; Accurate novel 3D positioning in indoor environments; Sensors that offer a reliable overview of the situation and of the potential threats (explosives, chemicals, fire, etc.); Enhanced vision for the First Responder in visually-impaired conditions, through ingenious and unprecedented HMIs consisting of sensor-based visual elements, showing spatial features and thermal imagery overlaid on the direct perception of the First Responder. DITSEF will be implemented by a strong partnership of 10 partners including SMEs and large industries, research centres, technology providers, system integrators and end-users. Digital & Innovative Technologies for Security & Efficiency of First responder operations • The DITSEF project will focus on the necessary technologies that will allow an enhanced intervention characterised by the terms faster, more efficient and safer. In that respect, the solutions foreseen by the DITSEF project are: • Communication: DITSEF will enhance the communication between the First Responders on the field and between the units and their HQ by providing self-organising, robust ad-hoc communications where the existing infrastructure may be compromised; • Positioning: The provision of accurate 3D positioning in indoor environments is exceptionally difficult for current techniques. Therefore, the DITSEF project will investigate and implement novel techniques, which will take into consideration the operational environment and the end-users’ needs; • Sensors: It is of vital importance that, for an operation, the First Responders are equipped with sensors that offer a reliable overview of the situation and of the potential threats (CBRN, fire, etc.), in order to provide more accurate situation awareness and enhanced decision making; • Human Machine Interface: the HMI provided by DITSEF will play an important role in reading, sending and continuity of real-time information.