Blue Water Area Resilient to be featured at Michigan Townships Association's Annual Conference

LANSING, MI, January 25, 2012 (Press-News.org) Blue Water Area Resilient, a cross-border security application built on IDV Solutions' Visual Fusion software, will be featured in "Emergency Management Information Sharing," a presentation to the Michigan Townships Association - 59th Annual Educational Conference & Expo at the Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 10:00 A.M. EDT.

Jeffrey Friedland, Emergency Management/Homeland Security Director, St. Clair County, will be assisted by IDV Solution's Richard Whisner during the presentation, which includes a live demonstration of Resilient.

The Blue Water area is home to nearly 300,000 United States and Canadian citizens, and hosts the second-busiest U.S. - Canada border crossing—the Blue Water Bridge. In addition to the bridge, the area features critical infrastructure such as the St. Clair River waterway; the Sarnia, Ontario to Port Huron, Michigan rail tunnel; airports; hospitals; interstate / provincial highways; international ports; and numerous oil refineries and petrochemical facilities. Resilient helps protect Blue Water area citizens and facilities as part of Virtual City, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) pilot project based in St. Clair County, Michigan.

IDV Solutions, with St. Clair County and other U.S. and Canadian partners, developed Resilient to unite data from local, regional, and national public safety agencies. The application relies on IDV's Visual Fusion software—technology that integrates data from virtually any source in interactive, web-based visualizations. Resilient also integrates the agencies' data with weather, nautical conditions and others, and displays it in a visual command center view. Using the interactive map and timeline, incident commanders can both plan for and respond to incidents—from small- to large-scale. Public security officials in the field can also access the data through any web browser.

For example, if a 911 call comes into a local dispatch center about a suspicious vehicle near the bridge, Resilient displays the location and details on the map. County, state, provincial, and federal counterparts instantly see the incident on their displays.

Last week, IDV Solutions announced that Blue Water Area Resilient had been accepted into the national Unified Incident Command and Decision Support (UICDS) data-sharing initiative. UICDS integration allows agencies using the application to automatically share information in response to natural or man-made disasters, such as terrorist incidents. The UICDS integration will coincide with deployment of Resilient onto HTML5-supported mobile devices such as iPads, tablets, and smartphones running iOS, Android, BlackBerry, or Windows, giving patrolling officers and field commanders the same view as those at the command center.

"Blue Water Area Resilient enables agencies in the U.S. and Canada to better share information and collaborate," said Richard Whisner, Project Manager at IDV Solutions. "Through regional information sharing, homeland security and local agencies are able to make critical public safety decisions faster and with more accuracy."

For more information about the Michigan Townships Association conference, visit http://www.kww.net/mta/index.html

A case study about Virtual City - Blue Water Area Resilient is available on the IDV Solutions web site, at http://www.idvsolutions.com/Documents/IDV_CaseStudy_VirtualCity.pdf

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