The TeamAware Citizen Involvement and City Integration System

In this blog post, we introduce the work contributed to the project by Innova Integra Limited. Innova Integra is a research and development-focused SME located on the campus of the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.

Innova Integra participates in TeamAware with the Citizen Involvement and City Integration System CICIS. The purpose of CICIS is to involve citizens during first responder activities and to enable first responders to access IoT devices and systems that are under the control of city or other relevant authorities.

The Citizen involvement component of CICIS is being developed based on the Innova Participation Platform developed by Innova Integra. For TeamAware, this platform will be customized and enhanced in order to provide citizens with the opportunity to provide useful information and reports to first responders in real-time and in order to implement efficient means to improve the safety of citizens by providing relevant information to them to keep citizens safe and outside of dangerous areas.

The City Integration part of the system will integrate a standard IoT integration middleware into TeamAware, so that any device that can communicate via that standard IoT middleware can be accessed through TeamAware in emergency situations. This can for example include weather stations and air quality measurement systems deployed by municipalities or private citizens and building management systems with detailed information on fire alarms and fire countermeasure deployments.