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Alastar™ was built to make communities safer. Alastar™ shares wide area situational awareness that helps identify threats and increase the speed and effectiveness of emergency response.

SCRA's Alastar™ software utilizes Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology and adds layers of information to provide an all-inclusive, real-time situational awareness tool. It enables first responders and other security personnel to fully assess their current environment and identify existing or emerging threats. From local 9-1-1 centers to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Alastar™ offers wide area situational awareness information that can dramatically improve response times and coordination from multiple locations. Alastar™ makes available the information that responders need, when and where they need it.

Alastar™ technology ties multiple information sources into one picture that is accessible in multiple locations - from watch standers in interagency operation centers, to command cadre on the go, to first responders on the street. By extending access to a tailorable view of the “big picture” to all responders on their laptops or other mobile devices, a fully integrated response can be coordinated that promotes fast, safe security response.

Comprehensive

  • Can display anything that has a position associated with it, whether static or in motion
    • Assets (responder vehicles)
    • Sensor feeds (e.g., cameras)
    • Critical infrastructure (e.g., fire hydrant locations)
    • Environmental (e.g., weather)

Clarity from Clutter

  • Visual power of tailorable integrated geospatial views provides clarity of complex situations
  • Provides "the big picture"
  • Transforms data into knowledge and information into intelligence

Dynamic

  • "Build as you go" dynamic data integration with traditional static data layers
  • Up-to-the-minute/real time picture
  • Integrates ever changing multimedia/social media data feeds

Actionable

  • Drives relevant data to the decision maker/first responder
  • Enables real-time interagency collaboration via shared situational awareness across multiple jurisdictions and public safety disciplines

Personal

  • Dynamic actionable information is fused and personalized to support each user's roles & missions
  • Supports specific user roles & responsibilities
    • Command Center/EOC/9-1-1 personnel
    • Fire/EMS/law enforcement/emergency managementCommand Cadre
    • Field Supervisors
    • First Responders On-Scene

Portable

  • Situational awareness "on the go"/whereever you are
    • iPad/tablet
    • Droid/tablet
    • Windows/tablet
    • Mobile Data Computer

For more information, contact:

Boyd Summers, SCRA
Corporate Office
1000 Catawba Street
Columbia, SC 29201
843.789.5305

Scott Beeson, SCRA
Applied Research Center
5300 International Boulevard
Charleston, SC 29418
843.760.4357