Case Study: Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service achieves improved control-room situational awareness and faster incident response with Cadcorp SIS

Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service - Customer Case Study

Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service, which covers almost 835 square miles with 25 fire stations and over 1,150 staff, needed a modern, interoperable corporate GIS to support incident analysis, map management and Control Room operations. After selecting Cadcorp SIS in 2005, the service faced the additional challenge of an ageing Control Room GIS that was costly to replace, so they sought a solution that could integrate legacy data, improve usability and extend GIS capabilities into the Control Room without full system replacement.

Cadcorp delivered a solution built on Cadcorp SIS with Cadcorp SIS Map Reader deployed on Citrix for service-wide map access and a tailored Cadcorp SIS Map Modeller plug-in (Cadcorp FireMet) for hazardous materials and operational analysis. The implementation used a SQL data warehouse and separate base-map servers, allowed on-the-fly data interoperability, rapid addition of new layers (e.g., M1 roadworks, utilities), flood and terrain modelling, isochrones for routing and plume/buffer analysis for HazMat incidents. The result: GIS information is now distributed across the service (paper, PDFs and Map Reader), Control Room situational awareness and response planning have improved, and Cadcorp’s tools were successfully used in real incidents to guide evacuations and resource deployment while avoiding the cost of replacing the existing Control Room system.

Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service

Richard Martin

GIS Analyst