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Abstract
Emergency Response Infrastructure for utilities
Jafrullah Mohammed
Senior Project Manager
Infosys Technoligies Ltd.,
Email: Jafrullah_Mohammed@infosys.com
Every year emergencies take their toll on utilities and industries. Various events can generate an emergency including: hurricane, winter storm, fire, flood, Terrorism, hazardous material incident, etc...
Utilities and industries have a moral responsibility to protect employees, comply with various regulations, minimize loss of services and possible damage to equipment, and reduce exposure to civil or criminal liability and restore the services at the earliest. Emergency management combines planning, preparation and the optimum resources to mitigate and respond to an event. Good emergency management requires information that is accurate, current, timely, and quickly analyzed. Much of the information used for emergency management has a spatial dimension, which is reflected in questions such as: "Where are critical facilities located?" "What is the best route?" "What is the area of impact?" "How will the size of the impacted area change over time?" “What is the size of affected service area?” “How many people are in the affected service area?" "What resources are located close by?". GIS enabled robust Information infrastructure is must to answer these questions and to help in effective and timely decision making in protecting the assets and people and planning the service restoration process.
This paper focuses on the type of information infrastructure needed for emergency response for Utilities.
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