Dear civil protection practitioners,
After collecting first insights into the practitioners’ requirements, we compared the practitioners’ requirements we have been able to gather during the project so far (see the file deliverable D2.2 Preliminary inventory of practitioners’ requirements) with the already on the market available Situational Awareness Tools/Systems, the commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies (see the file deliverable D2.1 State-of-the-art Analysis) in a so called Gap Analysis (see the file deliverable D2.4 Gap Analysis).
We found out that most requirements from practitioners are fulfilled by already on the market available tools, the COTS technologies cover first responder requirements quite extensively.
So, while a variety of COTS tools are available, the technology is currently not being used amongmost of the practitioners, which begs the question of what are the possible barriers to their uptake?
The questions we would like to raise for starting discussion:
We are looking forward to a fruitful discussion and exchange with you!
Best regards on behalf of SAYSO,
Hanna M. Burkow
Project Coordinator
From my point of view, there are two major obstacles: