C4ISR Multimedia System for Emergency Management TIN2004-03588

C4ISR systems (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) are one of the most classical examples of critical real-time distributed systems. The origin of these systems falls under the scope of military research. Usually they are embedded systems with particular purpose and ad-hoc designed. The project proposes the migration of the technological and operative concepts presented in the DoD and NATO standards and developed in the C4ISR military systems to the civil environment. In special, emergency management since it has a large social impact. (flood, fire, terrorist attacks, dumping of toxic waste and so on). Additionally, the project proposes the massive inclusion of multimedia flows as a main technological innovation with regard to the military systems. The main project objectives are the following: (i) Generic C4ISR system architecture definition for emergency management. The defined architecture follows the DoD and NATO standards in the operational, system and technological plane and are based on the COTS (Commercial- ofthe-self) development principle. (ii) Validation of the proposed concept through the development and assessment of a test application for fire management based on RT-LINUX as a particular case of a generic emergency management system. In order to guarantee the correct working of the distributed real time system and due importance of the communication (protocols, network technologies) another one of the main project objectives will be the analysis and detailed definition of the project communication architecture based on IP and wireless mobile networks. Moreover, from hard and soft requirement integration point of view it is important to emphasize the novel aspect and the added difficulty due to the massive inclusion of multimedia flows.