Development of Decision Support Systems for 112 Call Centres
Nenad Mladineo, Snježana Knezić, Ranko Britvić · 2003
Accepting the international agreements and protocols, as well as hosting numerous tourists during summer, Croatia faces the need for establishment of Emergency Call Services. For Split-Dalmatia County a Pilot project called Enhanced Emergency Call Service 112 was evaluated. The approach is based on available infrastructure, resources, knowledge and potentials, aiming to conceptualise Centre 112, mainly from telecommunication and decision support model aspects, in organisational and functional manner. Starting point was telecommunication infrastructure base. During further analysis the digital records for infrastructure efficiency analysis in function of Centre 112 are formed (complete area covering, covering of specially risk areas, capacities, reliability, technical and technological functionality, interoperability, etc.). Moreover, analysis for available resources for rescue and help is performed regarding telecommunication equipment and possibility to fit into unique emergency management system (police, fire brigades, hospitals and ambulances, marine and river rescue teams, mountain rescue teams and other SAR brigades, various anti-accident biological, chemical-technological and other brigades, special mobile mechanisation, experts in certain fields, etc.). In order to make Centre 112 more efficient, based on collected data Decision Support System (DSS) for Emergency Call Services is conceptualised. It consists of several modules containing model and software support for Centre 112 functioning. The most important modules are: GIS (geographic information system), locating critical infrastructure using GIS, locating the calls in the fixed phone network, locating calls in the mobile telecommunication network, determining the nearest station for intervention and the fastest route for intervention by using GIS network analyst software, establishing of alerting and warning function via fixed and mobile telecommunication networks, location the user of mobile phone within SAR activities, offering services to the tourists that calls Centre 112 (identification of communication language and establishment of some automatic dialogs), etc.