Geofence-Based Task Zone Coordination for Public Safety Incidents
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Solution Overview
Problem
Public safety incidents often involve conflicting tasks among different agencies, leading to communication inefficiencies, damage or contamination of evidence, and increased stress levels, due to overlapping task zones and lack of priority understanding among officers.
Innovation Solution
An electronic digital assistant system that determines and coordinates task zones by establishing geofences for each task, identifies conflicts, and modifies lower-priority tasks to prevent interference, using an electronic processor to prioritize and instruct communication devices of public safety officers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple public safety agencies operate independently at an incident scene, then each agency can perform its specialized tasks, but task zones overlap and cause conflicts between different agencies' operations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an electronic digital assistant system as an intermediary that receives task information from multiple public safety agencies, processes it to identify overlapping geofences, and coordinates task assignments. This mediator prevents direct conflicts between agencies by managing task zone assignments centrally while allowing each agency to maintain operational independence within its assigned zones.
2Reliability
If public safety officers communicate frequently to coordinate tasks, then task conflicts are reduced, but communication resources are consumed and stress increases
Solution Approach 1:
The electronic digital assistant system automatically performs task coordination functions by receiving task information, identifying geofence overlaps, determining conflicts, and modifying task assignments without requiring continuous officer-to-officer communication. The system serves itself by autonomously managing the coordination that would otherwise require extensive human communication, thereby reducing communication resource usage while maintaining reliable task coordination.
3Ease of operation
If manual task assignment is used without automated coordination, then officers have flexibility in task execution, but task conflicts and evidence contamination risk increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements feedback by continuously monitoring task assignments and geofence locations, automatically identifying when task zones overlap, and providing real-time conflict information to the assignment system. This feedback loop enables automated coordination that prevents evidence contamination while maintaining operational flexibility, as the system dynamically adjusts task assignments based on current scene conditions without restricting officer decision-making within assigned zones.
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AI summary
Methods and systems for coordinating task zones at a public safety incident scene. One system includes an electronic computing device that includes an electronic processor configured to determine a first task to be performed by a first public safety officer and a second task to be performed by a second public safety officer. The electronic processor establishes a first geofence for the first task and a second geofence for the second task. In response to determining that the second geofence at least partially overlaps with the first geofence, the electronic processor determines whether the first task conflicts with the second task. In response to determining that the first task conflicts with the second task, the electronic processor modifies the first task and provides an instruction to a communication device of the first public safety officer to indicate that the first task has been modified.