resgrid for volunteer fire departments
DESCRIPTION
In this presentation, you will see some of the many benefits Resgrid has for your volunteer fire department or combination district. Resgrid is more than just for fire departments. It can be utilized by any organization that needs coordinate logistics with disperse personnel/resources like search and rescue, EMS, disaster response, public safety and more. See how Resgrid can help your department coordinate personnel, responses, resources, share information and extend your existing dispatch capability.TRANSCRIPT
Cloud Logistics for Volunteer and
Combination Fire Departments
April 24th 2014
Executive Summary
Coordinating personnel and apparatuses with a large or disperse volunteer force is challenging Concep
t
Opportunity
Potential
Personnel can use their own smartphones and web access to see the status of all personnel and
apparatuses
Allows all your personnel to gain situational awareness into available units and personnel and
make better decisions
What Is Resgrid?
Resgrid is a cloud based logistics system for first responder organizations, allowing you to manage all aspects of your department in one place.
Resgrid
Personnel
Units
Stations
PublicIncidents
Reporting
Planning
Introduction
• Founded in late 2012
• Solutions designed with First Responder organizations in mind
• Resgrid's mission is to apply the latest technology to solve the mission critical needs of our customers.
• Over 500 departments using the system worldwide
• Cloud based logistics system with private cloud and on premises options
• Mobile applications for Responders, Apparatuses and IC’s
Coordinating Personnel
Resgrid allows your personnel to see the status of every station in the department and their unit status (Available, Unavailable, Committed, etc).
This allows your personnel to respond to a station where resources are available, or understaffed.
What station should responders go to? Where are resources available or under
staffed?
In the example above the 3 firefighters home station’s unit is already out, so responding there is no good, but the other stations engine is available and unstaffed. They can redirect to the station where the resource is available.
Coordinating Responses
With Resgrid your personnel can see the status of all personnel and units on their smartphone.
This allows your personnel to make smart decisions about where personnel and units are available and under utilized.
2 Operators
2 Fire Fighters
Engine
Tender
You have multiple stations, units and personnel, people
respond to respective stations, how do you best
utilize your resources?
In the example above the lower station has 1 Engine, but 2 operators, with Resgrid they can see that there are 2 firefighters at one station and a Tender at another.
Sharing Information
Resgrid allows a single point of contact for sending out and sharing of information to all personnel, ensuring they got it.
Information for all your personnel is stored in one secure place, accessible by the web or mobile devices.
Your personnel is always in flux, thus maintaining an
email list, call or text tree is costly. How do you share
information?
In the example above dispatch is issuing a Red Flag warning, but some personnel may be out of radio range, might have their pagers off or the responsible station personnel used to forward messages may be on vacation. Resgrid abstracts that pain allowing a single system to report to all.
Text/SMS Message
Dispatching
Resgrid is designed to live beside and work with your existing infrastructure, giving it one system to talk to greatly enhance your capabilities.
Resgrid will always be adding new features that would be expensive or difficult for existing systems to support.
How can you extend the capabilities of your Dispatch
center and CAD system without expensive upgrades
or new hardware?
A dispatch is issued and sent by radio and by Resgrid, which then rebroadcasts the dispatch over Text/SMS, Email and Push Notifications. 3 (and more) channels for 1.
EmailPush
Notifications
Personnel
Radio
Reporting
Resgrid allows your personnel to enter important information, for example staffing level, that can be used to create alerts and reports.
There are multiple live update screens and reports that will keep your flag staff updated on all aspects of staffing and resources availability.
How can your easily report on your current staffing or report
on responses?
Personnel can set their current staffing level easily via the web or mobile apps. Additionally personnel can schedule their staffing level changes (i.e. 0800 unavailable for work, 1700 available off work).
Personnel set staffing, or schedule staffing changes in Resgrid
Command views a report of current and future staffing levels
Value Proposition• Bidirectional communication between all resources
• Can be a stand alone system or integrate with other systems, i.e. CAD
• Disseminate information to loosely connected personnel easily
• Use Resgrid to extend your existing infrastructure without the work
• Multiple communication paths (Email, Text/SMS, Push and Voice)
• Free mobile applications designed for specific roles (Personnel, Unit, IC)
• Easy single point of control for managing all entities (personnel, units, etc)
• Cloud based; no touch installation, no maintenance, weekly upgrades
Call to Action
• Sign up for FREE at http://resgrid.com
• Email your questions, issues or feature requests to [email protected]
