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Equipment Package: Emergency Environmental Monitoring

Description: This equipment package collects current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information from a variety of sources, including both weather service providers and vehicle probes. The collected environmental information is monitored and presented to the operator and used to more effectively manage incidents.
Included In: COSA PD Dispatch
County/Municipal EOC
SA/Bexar County EOC
Functional Requirements 1 - The center shall collect current and forecast road and weather information from weather service providers (such as the National Weather Service and value-added sector specific meteorological services).
2 - The center shall receive environmental probe information from its fleet of emergency vehicles.
3 - The center shall collect current road and weather information from roadway maintenance operations.
4 - The center shall assimilate current and forecast road conditions and surface weather information to support incident management.
5 - The center shall present the current and forecast road and weather information to the emergency system operator.
6 - The center shall provide aggregated or processed environmental probe information from its fleet of emergency vehicles to traffic management and maintenance centers.

Last updated: 08-15-07