Wichita Fire Vehicles

Interconnects - Flows - Entities - Services - Functional Requirements

Definition:

The Wichita Fire Vehicles are dispatched by Sedgwick County 911. AVL for most public safety vehicles is expected near term.

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Systems Interconnected
with the Wichita Fire Vehicles

Sedgwick County 911 Wichita TOC Roadside Equipment

Interconnect Diagram

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Architecture Flow Diagrams
which include Wichita Fire Vehicles:

• Wichita Fire Vehicles Sedgwick County 911
• Wichita Fire Vehicles Wichita TOC Roadside Equipment

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Architecture Flows
to/from the Wichita Fire Vehicles:

Wichita Fire VehiclesSedgwick County 911

• emergency dispatch response


• emergency vehicle tracking data


• incident status

Wichita Fire VehiclesWichita TOC Roadside Equipment

• local signal preemption request

Sedgwick County 911Wichita Fire Vehicles

• emergency dispatch requests


• suggested route

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National ITS Architecture Subsystems
mapped to the Wichita Fire Vehicles:

• Emergency Vehicle Subsystem

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National ITS Architecture Services
associated with Wichita Fire Vehicles:

• EM01 - Sedgwick County 911 Emergency Call-Taking and Dispatch -- (Graphic)
• EM02 - Sedgwick County 911 Emergency Routing -- (Graphic)

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National ITS Architecture Functional Requirements
associated with Wichita Fire Vehicles:

1. The emergency vehicle, including roadway service patrols, shall compute the location of the emergency vehicle based on inputs from a vehicle location determination function.
2. The emergency vehicle, including roadway service patrols, shall send the vehicle's location and operational data to the center for emergency management and dispatch.
3. The emergency vehicle, including roadway service patrols, shall receive incident details and a suggested route when dispatched to a scene.
4. The emergency vehicle shall send the current en route status (including estimated time of arrival) and requests for emergency dispatch updates.
5. The emergency vehicle shall send requests to traffic signal control equipment at the roadside to preempt the signal.
6. The emergency vehicle shall provide the personnel on-board with dispatch information, including incident type and location, and forward an acknowledgment from personnel to the center that the vehicle is on its way to the incident scene.

1. The emergency vehicle shall receive dispatch instructions sufficient to enable emergency personnel in the field to implement an effective incident response. It includes local traffic, road, and weather conditions, hazardous material information, and the current status of resources that have been allocated to an incident.
2. The emergency vehicle shall provide an interface to the center for emergency personnel to transmit information about the incident site such as the extent of injuries, identification of vehicles and people involved, hazardous material, etc.
3. The emergency vehicle shall provide an interface to the center for emergency personnel to transmit information about the current incident response status such as the identification of the resources on site, site management strategies in effect, and current clearance status.