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Along the mighty Mississippi, we find St. Louis.

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Gateway to the West. Gateway to the future.

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The City of St. Louis was the top choice when
the DHS Science and Technology Directorate, or "S&T"

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wanted to demonstrate its pilot program known as SCIRA.

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SCIRA is the Smart City Interoperability Reference Architecture

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and it's a framework to facilitate the integration
and interoperability of disparate IT systems.

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SCIRA offers municipalities a roadmap for how
new technologies can all seamlessly work together

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to deliver a unified public safety solution.

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As the culmination of the SCIRA pilot program, S&T brought
together stakeholders such as emergency managers

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and first responders for a simulated disaster exercise.

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As the Chief Technology Officer for the City of St. Louis,
I spearhead our Smart City Initiative.

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Public safety is a big part of that.

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During the two-day SCIRA exercise

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S&T introduced the stakeholders
to advanced tools and techniques

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that can enhance public safety response
and help save lives.

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That way, when a real catastrophe does strike,

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St. Louis will be ready.

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The SCIRA exercise imagined five interconnected
emergency response scenarios

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based around a major storm and flood.

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It explored how innovations like Internet of
Things or 'IoT' and other technologies

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can all work together to improve situational awareness,

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data sharing, alerts and resource allocation.

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In the simulation, stakeholders were able to
monitor the rising river in real-time,

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then initiate citywide emergency management actions like

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sending alerts, closing streets and mapping
optimal emergency routes.

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They located and saved at risk populations
and directed advanced response

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to realistic incidents involving building fires
and the rescue of trapped civilians,

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all while protecting the lives of the rescuers.

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They even simulated traffic accidents that required

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multiple city departments to be smartly
dispatched and routed to them.

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By bringing together the stakeholders

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and allowing them to experience first-hand

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how interoperable Smart Cities will
fundamentally alter public safety

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S&T's SCIRA pilot was a success.

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The relationship with DHS S&T has been great.

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Thanks to SCIRA, future response can
be faster and more efficient

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so lives and property can be saved.

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And in St. Louis, the future is today.