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Emergency Shelter System
The Onuma System is set up to support scenario planning.
Onuma allows for massive collaboration with a wide range of users.
In the San Francisco Shelter Database Project, ONUMA, Inc.
customized a system to support the documenting and management of
hundreds emergency shelters. Shelter sites were cataloged and then made
available for access by authorized users.
The Onuma System was one of the key components that supported
the Open Geospatial Consortium OWS 4 project to connect geospatial data
and building information modeling data using open standards based web
services.
Some of the features of Onuma for Emergency Shelters Include:
- User interface to to speed up data collecting and use.
- Real-time data collection on site to allow for team
coordination.
- Live links of data to Google Earth for visualization.
- Access to data through PDAs and web-enabled phones.
- 2D and 3D views in Google Earth to show the location of
shelter support facilities.
- Use of Web 2.0 functionality and Web Services to connect
to other data.
- User interface to support self documenting features.
- Shelter point of contact ability to validate data.
- Mock scenario planning or for actual disaster relief.
Shelter Locations in Google Map, Data is live from Onuma. As
new site surveys are entered by field teams they appear on the map
automatically. During an emergency the same interface can be used to
manage relief efforts.
Web interface to manage shelter site data. Field teams can
enter data directly. The online forms guide users to relevant sections.
The interface is set up to be used with minimal or no training. User
access levels are based on the role of the user. In times of an
emergency the system can be turned into a live dashboard of what
shelter capacities are.
Shelter Site with Data from Onuma in Google Earth
Shelter Site with Data from Onuma in Google Earth. As the
data gets updated by users, the view in Google Earth changes. Site
elements and building rooms can be dynamically color coded with shelter
data to inform the user.
Site Plan with Buildings In Onuma. With proper access, data
and graphics are editable to create new scenarios. These graphics are
editable directly in the web browser with updates sent back to the
server.
Floor Plan with Shelter Layout In Onuma. No Software required
as this is a web based graphical interface to view and edit plans
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