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IOPES

Indoor-Outdoor Positioning for Emergency Staff

Overview

Status

Closed

Start

End

Type
Cross-border prevention and preparedness and marine pollution (Track 2)
EU contribution amount
EUR 784 523.79 (EU contribution)
Funding source
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Description

Indoor-Outdoor Positioning for Emergency Staff (IOPES) aims at strengthening the preparedness of civil protection and emergency teams (CPETs) involved in disaster-related operations.

Its targets are: (1) to provide continuous, time-tagged information about the location of CPETs; (2) to create a new feature of an already operational emergency management system (EMS); (3) to rely on existing cartography or new maps; (4) to use its own communication system to avoid the need for existing (possibly damaged/inoperative) infrastructures; (5) to better the decision-making process. The project plans to achieve its targets by conducting a users’ needs assessment, integrating existing indoor/outdoor positioning devices in a wearable unit, and integrating itself in the EMS. Its planned exercises are designed to check the suitability of the entire system. To do this, the consortium includes a research centre and four SMEs. The civil protection entities and related organisations provide their knowledge of high-risk areas, and examples of disasters of natural hazards. The final beneficiaries are civil protection agencies and CPETs.

The first outcome of the project will be an IT-based solution, the enhanced EMS. The data collected by the EMS will lead to the second outcome of IOPES: the dissection of information to trace the behaviour of the teams, linking variables as time, position and events to make a post-mortem analysis of the emergency possible. This could result in developing strategies to improve emergency management.

Partner organisations

Organisation
Country
Spain
Role
Coordinator
EU Contribution
EUR 208 336.44
Organisation
Country
Italy
Role
Beneficiary
EU Contribution
EUR 134 651.48
Organisation
Country
Spain
Role
Beneficiary
EU Contribution
EUR 68 003.32
Organisation
Country
Germany
Role
Beneficiary
EU Contribution
EUR 133 651.03
Organisation
Country
Iceland
Role
Beneficiary
EU Contribution
EUR 108 703.44
Organisation
Country
Spain
Role
Beneficiary
EU Contribution
EUR 62 392.61
Organisation
Country
Denmark
Role
Beneficiary
EU Contribution
EUR 68 785.49