Improvements and Enhancements of Profile-Based Approach in C2-SENSE Crisis Management Project

Abstract

Empowering Command and Control (C2) systems with a harmonized view of information originating from different source providers (like physical sensors, messaging clients, legacy applications) is one of the key aspects of the C2-SENSE project: the effective management of emergencies is heavily dependent on information availability, its timeliness, its possibility to be correctly understood by specific consumers.

Achieving this goal in the highlighted context required to overcome some very specific and domain-oriented challenges, strongly influenced by the abundance of legacy architectures and applications found in the as-is, as well as their severely different technological level and maturity.

In this paper our intention is to show how, during the C2-Sense development, this service federation was made possible, which kind of issues had to be confronted with, which kind of solutions were evaluated and committed. In particular, we are going to delve into main aspects that can be improved, in order to suggest new investigation ways to make the project more declinable to real and complex crisis scenarios, giving a competitive advantage in being capable to reach an effective level of interoperability, making involved actors able to receive and understand information messages based on their actual informative value and not on the original capabilities of the convey systems.

In the conclusions we will also propose some further possible enhancements, built on top of the lesson learned during the C2-Sense research project.