Informational Resources
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SaaS for Situational Awareness
This white paper describes how a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Shared Situational Awareness (SSA) model can give agencies of all sizes real-time, integrated views of emergencies, advancing the approach to preparedness and response.
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Internet of Everything (IoE)
This paper shows how an “Internet of Everything” (IoE) architecture can give first responders real‑time, automated situational awareness by connecting people, processes, data, and devices through secure machine‑to‑machine (M2M) and Internet‑of‑Things (IoT) technologies.
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Urban Telepresence (UT)
This paper introduces Urban Telepresence (UT), an immersive mixed‑reality capability that lets remote “virtual operators” experience an urban environment through a browser, fusing live sensor feeds, past data, and predictive intelligence into one shared situational awareness view, built on the fourDscape platform.
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Shared Situational Awareness (SSA)
This white paper explains how a Software‑as‑a‑Service (SaaS) Shared Situational Awareness (SSA) model can turn today’s IoT/M2M, cloud, and security advances into an affordable, always‑on emergency intelligence service for organizations of any size using the fourDscape platform.
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Common Operating Picture
This paper presents an Emergency Management next‑generation platform that delivers an augmented virtual reality view of incidents to improve situational awareness, command and control, and information sharing across all levels of emergency management built on the fourDscape platform.
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Stony Brook University Case Study
This case study shows how Stony Brook University used the fourDscape platform to power its new Emergency Operations Center, unifying cameras, building systems, weather data, and other sensors into a single 3D common operating environment for campus safety and investigations.
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US Campus Uses High-tech Center to Keep Students Safe
When Hurricane Sandy swept over Long Island, New York, in October 2012, fourDscape was there to manage the storm and the aftermath.
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Drone Delivery Demonstration
A pilot program at Camp Shelby where companies, including VCORE, successfully used a Vapor 55 unmanned helicopter to autonomously deliver 10‑pound blood trauma kits over a 14‑mile round trip to a simulated “soldier‑down” in a remote village setting.
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DHS Success Stories
The Department of Homeland Security has created this brochure for the purposes of demonstrating how DHS’s Small Business Innovation Research program can and has played a part in development and maturation of homeland security related technologies.