Recognizing Services:
As part of another conversation, relating the CAP alert system that is
replacing the emergency broadcast system, and the desire to be able to send CAP
alerts directly to buildings….
In the ideal system, CAP alerts would go out from whatever source,
whether national or regional, whether intelligence or police. Each CAP alert
would contain many types documents, each intended for different markets. One of
those document types would be the building response, which would have two
components. One component would be the informational component, the terse
public explanation of the alert. One component would be the simple response
type, or what Michelle and I call service, that we expect from the building.
The service request would be generic, irrespective of the actual building and
its capabilities.
The facility master system integrator (FMSI), the trade responsible for
integrating the low level building systems for interaction with the enterprise,
would be responsible for defining each services the building was expected to
perform. The FMSI has the local knowledge of each building, and the missions
housed therein. The possibly national entity sending out the CAP alert would
not know the details of every building / outdoor athletic facility / airport /
civic center / ….
Within the generic realm of Emergency response, we can imagine the
building offering weather response services for responding to Ice Emergency
Alerts, Tornado Touchdowns Alerts, Tidal Wave Alerts, Flood Alerts, et al. In
some regions, such as the Midwest, insurance premiums could be lower for a
building with an approved response plan for Tornado Alerts, but no Tidal Wave
Alert response would be in place. On the coast, the opposite might apply.
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil
to one who is striking at the root." -- David Thoreau
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Toby Considine
Chair, OASIS oBIX TC
Facilities Technology Office
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC
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Email: Toby.Considine@
unc.edu
Phone: (919)962-9073
http://www.oasis-open.org
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