Standarization Prioritized Opportunities Methodology

With a total of 255 opportunities identified over the course of the project, there was a need for the development of a methodology for the selection of the most relevant.
It was decided to group these opportunities so that the Valkyries researchers could work on cataloguing, taxonomically homogenising, organising, assessing similarities and differences, and finally grouping the individual opportunities. This time the opportunities were analysed in two aspects: feasibility and impact.

Feasibility refers to how viable or achievable it’s the opportunity.
Impact refers to what is the effect or influence that the opportunity is expected.
A consultation to assess the relevance of these opportunities was carried out using a modified Delphi method, a structured communication technique used to gather expert opinion and knowledge on a particular topic or issue.
The questionnaire consisted of 13 questions, 7 for feasibility and 6 for impact. These questions had a measurable score from 1 to 10. In such a way that the results were comparable. Moreover, each of the questions had a weight in the final score.

The questions within the feasibility group were focused to evaluated aspects such as the resources or capacities of the system, ethical-legal regulation, technological advances and implementation costs.

With the answers to the questions and the appropriate weighting, a score was obtained for each group. One for feasibility and one for impact. In this way, the opportunity can be placed in a matrix format.

Following this methodology, 6 opportunities were selected for WP4, 5 for WP5 and 5 for WP6.

Valkyries project tools

The Valkyries project has a variety of tools developed by the different partners, that cover several operational services identified in the system architecture.

• VALKYRIES Dashboard, As part of the VALKYRIES project, PARTICLE is developing a dashboard to represent the different elements associated with a Multi-Casualty Incident (MCI), including incidents, victims, involved response organisations, resources and assets, associated tasks and assignments. Based on PARTICLE’s AWARE Platform, this situational awareness tool provides an overview of reported incidents and the different resources mobilised (e.g., ambulances, first aid vehicles, personnel) to handle MCIs, allowing for the ongoing tracking of assigned victims’ evacuation and transportation. Further, the VALKYRIES Dashboard presents the location and routing of victims’ transport vehicles, as well as its estimated time of arrival at destination hospitals, and casualty information relevant for pre-hospital assistance and the victims’ hand-over to hospitals, including medical information and vital signs data.


• iSAFETY is an INTEGRATED INCIDENT & EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM to deploy Call Receiving, Incident Dispatch and Tracking, Radio/Voice communications integration and Reports, based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Vehicle Location (AVL).


• Hybrid Twin Lab (HDTL) is presented as a solution to the problem of digitization, modelling and assisting human beings and machines, at reasoning and analyzing the cyber operational joint picture. Based on a full spectrum digitation of the cross-domain cyber operational context, the IHDTL was developed for creating and dynamically updating a synthetic and immersive working environment for generating, integrating, managing and visualizing mixed scenarios composed of real, simulated or virtualized assets (digital twins); all of this under an isolated multi-domain environment where complex operational scenarios can be deployed both for training and mission planning.


• Tassica MCI is a native Android app designed to support first responders in an MCI declaration, from the first info about MCI place (geo coordinates, photos, CBRN risk, ...) to victims first and second triage data (no personal information is collected). User can organize information of his/her own victims in a context of overflowing demand for assistance and maximum stress, facilitating rapid, effective, continuous and quality assistance to victims. Finally, user can send all collected data to email address of control center.


• PARTICLE.TALK is a modern IP-based private digital communications service supporting multi-protocols for chat, audio and video communication, ideal to connect teams, working groups and organisations. Installed in PARTICLE’s cloud servers, the App supports presence details, send and read receipts, message notifications or alerts and the encrypted exchange of messages, as well as the sharing of multimedia files. In Multi-Casualty Incidents, PARTICLE.TALK connect the different teams and organisations involved in the response effort, ensuring the registry of all exchanged information. To ensure that the organisations have the full control of communications and shared contents, it is possible to host the system at the organisation customer’s facilities.


• KystInfo is a web based layered sea-map system where many different layers with information can be activated and updated real-time by the coastal administration, its partners and registered users. Many layers are freely available by default, some examples are navigation installations, anchorage areas, harbours, marine charts, depth maps, real-time and historical AIS vessel data, hazardous areas, accident frequency and meteorological data (wind, wave hight and direction, precipitation, currents).


• The AEODP platform platform provides its users with useful information in real or near real Time. It provides users with useful insights and information, in the form of layers on a map, by analysing satellite data. AEODP supports collection of Satellite data from sensors SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar). This feature provides users with high resolution images even during night-time or in cloudy areas. Also allows detection of small movements on the ground and effective land and water monitoring.

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