Traverse City-based Salamander Technologies, which offers tracking technology for first responders, Wednesday announced a partnership with Cambridge, Mass.-baesd CoreStreet Ltd., a developer of software for IT credential programs.
Under terms of the agreement, Salamander Technologies has "CoreStreet-Enabled" its InterTrax Suite by integrating the CoreStreet Pivman technology into its systems, and will offer the enhanced capabilities as an add-on component. The combined system is already installed in customer locations in Colorado, Michigan, and soon in Illinois.
The CoreStreet Pivman technology provides Salamander Technologies with an interoperability layer between local accountability and identity systems and the federal emergency response infrastructure put in place in accordance with several federal mandates.
Salamander’s InterTrax suite integrates the elements of identification, incident, and interoperability into a comprehensive system for tracking resources at an incident, event, or disaster. It also combines the latest in automatic identification technologies with standard incident command procedures under the National Incident Management System.
The CoreStreet Pivman Solution collects attributes and qualifications from authoritative sources for emergency response officials. This provides incident commanders with the most current information for utilizing EROs and granting access to disaster sites during mutual aid response scenarios. It also utilizes National Response Framework Emergency Support Function (ESF) codes and National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) Sector numbers for attributes, as defined by the National Preparedness Directorate within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
“From our perspective, this partnership is an instance of one plus one equaling three,” said John Bys, executive vice president, CoreStreet. “By leveraging the CoreStreet Pivman infrastructure, Salamander Technologies can share locally managed emergency responder capabilities and skill sets across local, state and federal jurisdictions and systems. Now, in multi-jurisdictional mutual aid response events, life safety decisions can be made on the spot, regardless of environmental conditions, including those situations where external communications do not exist. With these tools, on-scene commanders have the vetted decision-making ERO qualifications from trustworthy sources -- allowing them to efficiently and effectively deploy those who are most qualified.”
Added Salamander Technologies vice president of marketing and sales Joseph Robinson: “Our vision is to create a simple, scalable, and survivable system for interagency personnel accountability – from the tag to the Web – that complies with federal mandates for NIMS and Personal Identity Verification. Joining forces with CoreStreet has enabled us to bring our vision of a standards-based, validation infrastructure in line with NIMS-based on-scene accountability.”
More at www.corestreet.com or www.salamandertechnologies.com.
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