In an emergency or crisis situation MERIS will provide:

· Incident Management
· Resource Tracking
· Communications
· Asset Request Processing

For:

· Local City & County Public Safety Officials
· All State Agencies
· Private Support Organizations · All Hazards & Disciplines: *Police
*Fire Emergency Medical
*HAZMAT
*Intelligence
*Public Health & Pandemic Planning
*Agriculture
*Transportation

 

Web Interface
Supports 400-600 simultaneous users, scalable to support more as needed.

Two Main Components:

1. ETEAM Crisis Management

· Incident Reporting & Tracking
· Resource Management
· Situation Reporting
· Action Planning
· Alert Notification
· GIS Mapping
· Facility Reporting
· Personnel Reporting
· Shelter Tracking
· Hospital Status & Bed Availability

2. Web Portal

· Day-to-Day Operations: Presence & awareness, e-mail, chatting, web conferencing
· Inventory, Resource and Asset Management: Identify, request, and deploy assets
· Infrastructure & Resource Tracking via GIS: Situational awareness & location
· Plans & Procedures: SOPs, concept of operations, workflow
· Alert Notifications: Incidents, roll-over (cell, pager, home, etc)
· Private sector business response network integration for tracking donations, volunteers and private resources via a web portal

Highly Robust System

Clustered fail over design: if one of the two data centers is interrupted, the backup center will assume primary control nearly instantly

User Expectations
It is expected that the MERIS platform will be a NIMS compliant, web-based tool that will be used both on-line, and in some cases off-line, and offers:

· Event management regardless of scope and scale,
· A common operating picture,
· Support for private and public resource and asset management functions,
· Integrated credentialing tools,
· Minimization of redundant data input,
· Geo-mapping options with a network link to a GIS data warehouse encompassing geo-data and aerial photography of the entire state,
· Templates for planning, operations resource, finance and intelligence functions,
· Reports for current situation to include real-time weather and weather forecasting tools

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Important Links:

Logon to the MERIS Secure Portal

MERIS Training

Quick Place

Executive Summary

Steering Committee

MERIS Workshop Slides

Regional Homeland Security Oversite Committee Brief

NC4 E Team Brief