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[Cuong Luu] The wearable alert

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and monitoring system or WAMS is a joint

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effort by the Department of Homeland Security Science

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and Technology Directorate and NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory to provide

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first responders with a wearable system that monitors their

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physical condition and surrounding environments and

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warns where there is a potentially dangerous situation.
[David Hanks] The wearable alert and monitoring system

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is a android phone that also communicates with sensors;

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Sensors that are typically on the body of a first responder.
The sensors are doing

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things like monitoring heart rate or perhaps monitoring

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temperature or even monitoring chemicals in the air.
So if there are dangerous chemicals in the air

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that sort of information can get relayed back to an incident
commander. The android phone

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has GPS built into it So we do have location information

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so that we can actually see where they are inside of a
building at all times

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WAMS works in conjunction with artificial intelligence

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technology called AUDREY. [Cuong]
By using artificial intelligence to

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process the sensor data WAMS collects,
we can provide for responders

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more complete and accurate situational awareness.
[David] AURDEY is a collection of software

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components that can do data synthesis and data analysis
typically it runs on the back end.

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That means on the cloud. WAM sends the data to AUDREY.

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AUDREY takes the data and AUDREY does the data
synthesis that would be for

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display and data analysis. That would be for generating
things like alerts. The data is then

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synched to a front end dashboard. Where a
incident commander uses the data to

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monitor the health and wellbeing of the first responders
as they are responding to an incident.

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[Randy Bittinger] By having artificial intelligence in place.
It's another way, another

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means to monitor our folks and
provide the safest atmosphere

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there is. [Cuong] AUDREY learns about
its responder's physiology

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and develops a physiological signature for each individual.

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So in situation where one member of a team

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is in potential trouble, it can issue an alert

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for that individual. [David] Individual first
responders are gonna have

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different responses to the situation there in.
AUDREY can learn from a

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particular first responder�s response to situations
and to determine whether or not that

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response is abnormal or normal.

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[Randy] So it's very important that we're able to
monitor our firefighters inside, because

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our heartbeats and respirations and see if there's
any issues there for safety purposes.

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And also being able to actually be able to track those
firefighters in case we need to actually go in and rescue

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them. [David] So what makes this makes this WAM

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system portable and easy to use. Is that you don't have
to plug any sensors into it. You'll discover sensors

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using bluetooth. The firefighter only has to put on his gear
and once those sensors start

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start pumping out data, WAMS will pick it up automatically
through bluetooth. [Randy] By having an external

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source monitor our firefighters, you take
some of that adrenaline and

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maybe some of the excitement on the scene
out the equation and gets us the best

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information we can possibly have. [For more information:
firstresponders@scitech.dhs.gov]

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