The second integration test of the VALKYRIES System (https://valkyries-h2020.eu) was conducted on April 12th, at SUMMA112 facilities, involving participants from Indra, PARTICLE SUMMARY, TASSICA and SUMMA112, as well as more than 30 healthcare students from the Instituto de Formacion en Seguridad y Emergencias (IFISE).
The test unfolded in a demo-style mode, allowing the validation of the VALKRIES equipment, training and tactical coordination procedures involving first aid vehicles and personnel as triage resources in a multiple victim incident. Indra’s iSafety provided the integration of the triage resources, PARTICLE’s Global Common Operational Picture (COP) delivered the incident’s overall situational picture and the tracking of victims and first aid personnel.
Overall, the integration test of the VALKYRIES System was a success and clearly highlighted advanced breakthroughs in the delivery of medical assistance to victims in large-scale disasters.
A command and control station was deployed on-site, providing a set of computers, a 4G network and a TV screen to display the visual outputs of the VALKYRIES SIGRUN (interoperability framework), PARTICLE’s Global COP dashboards and victim triage system and Indra iSafety Command and Control platform.
The collected vicim information was immediately shared with the PARTICLE’s Global Dashboards and INDRA’s iSafety systems at the Command post, without the need to use audio communications (which is largely prone to errors).
Decision-makers could thus follow the incident coordination and management in real-time, including the tracking of victims and first aid vehicles, the assignment of ambulances and destination hospitals to victims and the following of victims hand-out to destination hospitals.
All tools were integrated into SIGRUN, i.e., the VALKYRIES Interoperability Framework, based on PARTICLE’s AWARE System, allowing the incident commander to easily coordinate the response effort to the multiple vicim disaster.
See post for the first performed test at VALKYRIES Demonstration at IFISE
