Incident command post

A method of presenting localized environmental information superimposed on a map of a site, to a user, the method comprising:

• a. receiving location signals from a plurality of location sensors and environmental signals from a plurality of environmental sensors;
• b. interpreting the location signals as location information and the environmental signals as environmental information;
• c. applying the location information and the environmental information to a map of the site as localized environmental information;
• d. displaying and archiving the map with the applied information;
• e. repeating a through d on an ongoing basis so as to dynamically update the localized environmental information;
• and
• a. determining occurrence of an event when the environmental information indicates that an environmental parameter falls outside of a predetermined range.

A method of monitoring personnel movement and status at a site, wherein each personnel is associated with a tracked resource, the method comprising:

• a. receiving location signals from a plurality of location sensors, wherein at least one of the location sensors is associated with one or more tracked resource associated with a personnel;
• b. interpreting the location signals into location information;
• c. applying the location information to a map of the site;
• d. displaying and archiving the map superimposed with the one or more tracked resource;
• e. repeating a through d on an ongoing basis so as to continuously update the location of the tracked resource and the map.

A method for communication amongst tracked resources at a site, the method comprising:

• a. loading, on a display associated with a first tracked resource, a site view;
• b. displaying the site view on a display associated with the first tracked resource;
• c. displaying and identifying one or more additional tracked resources on the site view, including a second tracked resource;
• d. upon user selection of the second tracked resource on the site view, establishing an audio communication link or video communication link or both between the first tracked resource and the second tracked resource.

A method for establishing bi-directional communication between a first tracked resource and a second tracked resource, the method comprising:

• a. the user of a first tracked resource inputting instructions for a second tracked resource using one or more of voice, text or gesture modalities on a multimodal system associated with a mobile device;
• b. the multimodal system processing the instructions inputted by the user;
• c. a location tracking system receiving the input instructions;
• d. the location tracking system interpreting the input instructions;
• e. the location tracking system communicating the instructions to the second tracked resource;
• f. the second tracked resource outputting the instructions on a multimodal interface associated with the second tracked resource, where the output can be one or more of the following types:
• voice, video, text or gesture.