SILVER BULLETS:SILVER BULLETS:HOW INTEROPERABLE DATA WILL HOW INTEROPERABLE DATA WILL REVOLUTIONIZE INFORMATION SHARINGREVOLUTIONIZE INFORMATION SHARING

Pete O’DellFounder/DirectorSwan Island NetworksPete.odell@swanisland.net

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Now available: Amazon.comNow available: Amazon.com

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Introduction, bias & rulesIntroduction, bias & rules

Introduction: Biz and technical guy Lots of experience (AKA made many mistakes) Writing a book, building a company

Bias: Action – do something, fix it, repeat Standards – do it predictably once it works

Rules/request for this presentation: Critical feedback appreciated via email Any case studies considered for publication

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Note on the Silver BulletsNote on the Silver Bullets

“Silver Bullet” has always been a mythical element – one thing that will solve a host of problems with a single shot.

Still doesn’t exist – no panacea Interoperable data transactions in large

numbers (Silver Bullets) can create a huge organizational solution to a massive problem (e.g. information sharing) – much like sand being added to a beach, it’s the sheer cumulative numbers of grains that have impact

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Bottom line up frontBottom line up front

Interoperable data important Moving toward critical mass globally Massive increase in structured feeds:

Sensors, systems (CAP), publishers (RSS)

Disparate examples of all types Govt taking active interest - NIEM 3 choices for those impacted:

Make it happen Watch it happen Wonder what happened

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Standards – reaching back in timeStandards – reaching back in time

Great Wall of China – 3 generations Eli Whitney and interchangeable parts Railroad tracks 7.62mm ammunition (real bullets) Shipping containers

Manual load/pack/unload - longshoremen 1950’s – first container shipments Ports rose and fell based on adoption 8,000x productivity increase over 40 years World trade enabled

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Technology standards - our lifetime….Technology standards - our lifetime….

COBOL – Grace Hopper - Arlington Credit Cards – early standard data Uniform Product Codes IBM PC – normalized many other types TCP/IP – trumped several competitors World Wide Web (HTML) – When? Who? SGML/XML – structure for other

machines instead of pages for people

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Information Sharing – what it is?Information Sharing – what it is?

Traits: Cross organizational (FSLTIPP – Federal, State,

Local, Tribal, International, Public and Private) Comprehensible (sent/received) Trusted (publisher/recipient) Re-purposeable

Where it failed: 9/11 – dots failed to connect (2001) Indonesian Tsunami (2004) Katrina – incredible lack of comms (2005) Recent Australia fires (2009)

Are we much improved today? No.

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Common Alerting ProtocolCommon Alerting Protocol

Art Botterell – California, Contra Costa Disparate & proprietary systems Emergency Interoperability Committee OASIS (Organization for the Advancement

of Structured Information Standards) Versions 1.1 – Now in NIEM Adopters:

NOAA, USGS – weather, tsunami, quakes Comcare Alliance FEMA – IPAWS WMO – World weather

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Key CAP Design PrincipalsKey CAP Design Principals

Simple Interoperable Complete Multi-use Familiarity Interdisciplinary International

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Some CAP uses todaySome CAP uses today

NOAA (US Weather)

WMO(global weather)

USGS Earthquake Tsunami Warning Sensor alerts 9-1-1 feeds Geo-political alerts Transportation

Ships (AIS) Health Alerts Snow load (WM) LE Events (raid) Financial events Incident mgmt –

WEB EOC, ETEAM FEMA-IPAWS

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TIES – TIES – Trusted Information Exchange SystemTrusted Information Exchange System

Bias – My product Visual - Dashboards Easy to use – little to no training Trusted Communities - authorized Built around CAP and other standards Targeting & filtering Common and User Defined Operating

Picture Real time, real easy

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TIES’ Unique Distribution PlatformTIES’ Unique Distribution Platform

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TIES ArchitectureTIES Architecture

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Demonstration or slideshowDemonstration or slideshow

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Futures – Interoperable data Futures – Interoperable data underpins all of themunderpins all of them

NIEM advances and adoption Internet ProtocolV6 Billions of cheap sensors The “internet of things” Implantable Google? (read only)

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WrapupWrapup

Questions and potentially answers Critical feedback appreciated Looking for a P/T book editor Pete.odell@swanisland.net 202-460-9207

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TIES DEMONSTRATIONTIES DEMONSTRATION

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Track incidents around the globeTrack incidents around the globe

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Personalized dashboards Personalized dashboards deliver timely and relevant deliver timely and relevant information information (add maps, points of interest, camera and (add maps, points of interest, camera and

RSS feeds, etc.) RSS feeds, etc.)

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Filtering increases ‘signal to Filtering increases ‘signal to noise’noise’Filter for content sources, time/expiration, locations, alert Filter for content sources, time/expiration, locations, alert type and key wordstype and key words

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Drive information to the Drive information to the ‘edge’ with TIES Mobile ‘edge’ with TIES Mobile integrationintegration

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Track key employees from Track key employees from standard browser-based standard browser-based device device (filter alerts based on device location)(filter alerts based on device location)

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Locate key employees and Locate key employees and monitor events/incidents in monitor events/incidents in local vicinitylocal vicinity

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The TIES Common Operating PictureThe TIES Common Operating Picture

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Alerting and Notification with Points Alerting and Notification with Points of Interestof Interest