AZTech integrated public safety system.

This document provides an initial description of the different components that constitute the AZTech Integrated Public Safety System. This document is a working draft and shall be updated based on the evolution of requirements placed on the system, services, and features that different stakeholders bring to bear. The AZTech Integrated Public Safety System brings together emergency services providers, public safety and medical professionals, transportation professionals, and technology companies into a collaborative framework that uses advanced communications and computer technologies to save lives, reduce long term injuries, save resources, and improve transportation management and emergency operations. It builds on the extensive Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) institutional and technology investments already made by the AZTech project and members. The AZTech Integrated Public Safety System collects data from Mayday/Automated Crash Notification (ACN) systems, AZTech traffic information and management systems, law enforcement, wireless carriers, 9-1-1 systems, and other sources. The AZTech Integrated Public Safety System collates, augments, and routes information to different users responding to emergencies and to applications supporting those responders. It supplements pre-existing systems (e.g. AZTech, FMS; police and fire CAD systems) rather than replacing them, and it integrates them with other information sources. Additional applications related to traveler information and traffic management also use information from the system. The AZTech Integrated Public Safety System follows an incremental deployment that leverages existing computer and communications infrastructure used by the different participating agencies. Through additional components such as an Emergency Provider Access Database, an Intelligent Message Broker, and agreed upon practices and protocols, the Integrated ITS Public Safety System allows current standalone systems to interoperate. Through this approach, the system maximizes everyone's current investment to provide an improved level of customer service.