Abstract

An Incident Dashboard for Civil Defense
Track: Homeland and National Security
Authors: Yusuf Albanki

General Directorate of Civil Defense (GDCD) of the Bahrain Ministry of Interior is responsible for public safety throughout the kingdom. Their main mission is to provide a quick emergency response. Since the Bahrain community is growing quite rapidly, this makes the GDCD's mission harder. In order to provide the best possible service and find optimum solutions, many decisions should be based on factors such as the location of incident, hydrants locations. The Incident Dashboard is designed to allow the GDCD management to view the relations between the different factors using different visual elements such as gauges and charts in a dynamic way. The dashboard provides several spatial analyses and network analyses such as allocation analysis, location-allocation analysis and hotspot analysis. This information is very important because it allows GDCD management to study the areas with high concentration of incidents and take appropriate actions to improve the safety of the public.