Hi Toby,
Spins on Services and Building
Performances may eventually fit together.
Using your example: after these
services have been so defined (Encapsulated Objects with little need for process
detail, just the message inputs) the conversations around Service Performance
Measurement will occur. After the Tidal Wave Alert, for example, certain City Beach
Building’s
performance and potential service improvements, would occur at the appropriate
local levels.
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Cheers,
Bob
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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
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