Fortified Holdings Corp. (FFDH.OB) announced that the company has teamed with Microsoft Corporation and 3Sharp of Redmond, WA to develop an exclusive application that utilizes Fortified DataCom’s NOMAD Incident Command Platform. This platform will allow first responders and humanitarian workers to streamline the emergency shelter registration processes. The project, spearheaded by Microsoft, is focused on assisting humanitarian agencies in their ability to register and process displaced persons at emergency shelter locations during times of crisis.
The program will automate registration forms and easily upload information so that all materials are readily available to deploy. This solution will rely on the Nomad Incident Command Platform provided by Fortified, which is a rapidly deployable, portable, battery operated system that can link widely dispersed multiple users on-site in an emergency location to multiple remote locations via an onboard satellite.
Organizations that have shown a need for such a product include American Red Cross and the Federal Emergency Management Agency. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Red Cross recognized the opportunity; “We set up shelters in conjunction with other organizations that had to house as many as 35,000 people,” stated Malcolm Welch, Senior Director of Innovations for the Red Cross. “In those cases, we had very, very long lines, because we had to collect basic information about the individuals to bring them into the shelter. Crates of data came back to a central repository where we retyped all of the forms.” The process took weeks to complete, so some of the information was no longer relevant and thus not useful by the time it was in the system.
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