Emergency MS SC Candidate Cristaldi

Congratulations Massimo, you've fulfilled the requirements to be considered a candidate for election to the Emergency Member Section Steering Committee.

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From: "Massimo Cristaldi" <m.cristaldi@i4es.it>
Date: Sep 16, 2015 3:34 AM
Subject: [sc-election] Re: Emergency MS
To: "Elysa Jones" <ElysaJones@yahoo.com>
Cc: <sc-election@oasis-open.org>

Dear Elysa thank you for the nomination. Of course I would be happy to serve in the steering committee.

Some brief notes about myself and about the importance of CAP in the overall strategy of IES solutions (http://ies.solutions), the company I co-created in 2004 and where I currently work as CTO.

Our brief company history is mainly focused on our experience in entering the extremely challenging market of services for data exchange in Emergency Management. This is not the only market we are in, but it is the most relevant one, both for the efforts we had to undertake for entering it and for its visibility and business results. And it is certainly the market where we decided to “go open”, both in terms of standards and in terms of underlying software platforms and technologies we have adopted.

We, at IES, have decided to study first and then enter the market of data sharing between man-operated systems, i.e. those systems used by operators for inputting information and decisions and that ideally should be able to distribute such information with other systems operated by colleagues of different organisations.

We were brave in launching such initiative back in 2006 and, as they say, fortune helps the brave. We got an important boost to our research by the European Commission that awarded a project of ours, named REACT, with a grant under FP6. The importance of REACT was not just the availability of financial resources, but the European breath that our concept received, with Emergency Organisations from different Member states contributing in the definition of common requirements and in the testing and validation of the concept.
The result of this effort was the definition of a combination of pre-existing de-facto standards (such as the Common Alerting Protocol and the ATOM-FEED standard) offered to Emergency Organisation together with a set of working tools available as a playground. The outcome of REACT was a non-proprietary standard that anybody can adopt as a basis for his or her implementations.
As most of you know, even the best standard fails to become a successful one if does not become the basis for real IT application, applications that should be clearly useful from the End Users perspective. An “Early Adopter” was needed to make this happening. And we had it: the Italian Ministry of Interior, Department of Fire Fighters (CNVVF). They shared with us and the other REACT partners the path leading to the first definition of the standard and then, after the end of the project, they issued a formal decree describing the adoption of the new “data interoperability” concept. A full description of the related protocol was also published, making it a de-jure standard (for Italy).

Since then, a number of concrete applications has naturally stemmed out. In 2009, a specific application was developed for managing the aftermath of the L’Aquila earthquake, particularly for sharing information about the activities on historical buildings. Notably, a subset of the complete information was available to journalists and general public via the website of the Department of Italian Fire Fighters. Later in the same year, a dedicated CAP-based system was delivered for coordinating operations against forest fires. An estimate by the Department of Italian Fire Fighters on the impact of such application on forest fires was reported as “a reduction by 40% of the time of arrival at the fire site”. This mainly because the different Organisations involved in the management of forest fires (Civil Protection, Fire Fighters, Forest Guards, Volunteers) were able to share a Common Operational Picture on the situations and agree more efficiently on the needed countermeasures.
Recently in 2011, a new application of our CAP-based suite of product (under the commercial name JIXEL) was developed for empowering deaf people to place emergency calls with the Italian Fire Fighters emergency Number 115. Such application, named 115-4-DEAF, was launched by CNVVF during the 2nd International Conference on Interoperability held in Venice on 19th May 2011 and it is now in testing phase in Veneto Region. Eventually, on 21st June 2011, the Italian Ministry of Interior, Department of Fire Fighters, released an official decree about the full adoption and the CAP protocol as “CAP Italian Profile “, along with templates and mechanisms for a full exchange of message with any other Organisation. The system developed by IES for the Italian Ministry of Interior, Department of Fire Fighters is now part of a roll-out plan throughout Italy (starting from Veneto Region). In the meantime, IES continues to work together with several Emergency Associations across Europe to foster the adoption of a European profile for CAP messages (very much alike what they did in Canada and, partly, in the US). As you can see quite an impressive list of achievements for a small company in a market traditionally reserved to big companies leaders in the GIS market or in the defense market.

Today JIXEL (and the CAP protocol) powers the interoperability of the Italian Ministry of the interior and has been adopted by different organisations at regional level.

Massimo

On 15 Sep 2015, at 18:50, Elysa Jones <ElysaJones@yahoo.com> wrote:

I would like to nominate Massimo Cristaldi of IES and member of the Emergency Member Section for an open position on the Emergency Member Section Steering Committee. His company is a long time user of CAP, a key standard in their deployed system in Italy.

Massimo, please reply with your willingness to serve.

Thank you!
Elysa Jones

Dr. Massimo Cristaldi, Technical Director
IES Solutions - Roma, Catania, Oxford
m.cristaldi@ies.solutions, +39-348-2816167
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