Integrated S&R platform 1st version

The current document is the first version of the deliverable defining the approach and planning of the integration activities alongside with the corresponding deliverables within the integration work package.
The integration plan relies on the architectural design document and introduces the integration and deployment for SnR components.
The final integrated SnR platform will extend and refine the initially developed SnR platform. Then a user’s manual will also be produced in order to facilitate the deployment and maintenance of the SnR platform.
According to DoA the S&R platform of technologies and solutions will be split into the following three categories:
➢ Front-End equipment systems and collection tools: which are mainly based on technologies employed in the crisis scenarios in order to acquire relevant and sensible information in real time (e.g. sensors, drones, rescue robots, smart glasses, smart uniforms, first aid devices, and masks).
➢ Data Fusion and Mediation Systems: which will fuse the information coming from those heterogeneous sources and will provide a more detailed and accurate situational\context awareness to the decision makers and to the C&C centres. Within S&R the integrated version of CONCORDE EMS offers the particular functionality, but other systems may be also used.
➢ Back-End applications, services and portals: This will provide decision support capabilities to crisis stakeholders.
The platform will be equipped with heterogeneous autonomous assets and sensors that provide various sources of data, indoor positioning and extensions of communications efficiently by employing swarming behaviours. Furthermore, the SnR platform will contain all the features that end-users identified and classified as highly important during the piloting of CONCORDE and IMPRESS and enhance them with the latest developments in First Responders’ related technologies.
This integration phase is aimed at covering the following aspects: (i) the connections with one external data source, (ii) the integration with one field data source which can be simulated and (iii) the creation of one Knox mock-up temporary instance for Data Lake connection.
The first part of the deliverable contains a short presentation of the objectives and scope of this deliverable. In the second part, Integration Framework components – architecture & tools are presented, also Data Sources details and details about Hosting Infrastructure are detailed. The last part will draw up the conclusions of this deliverable and future plan of the SnR platform which will be presented in the future deliverable D7.6 Integrated S&R platform 2nd version