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© 2006 The Carbon Project

Location-based Location-based Social Social NetworkingNetworkingfor Crisis for Crisis ManagementManagement

Contact:Jeff Harrison, President and CEO

[email protected]

www.thecarbonproject.com

CarbonTools™, CarbonTools PRO™, CarbonArc™, CarbonCloud™, The Carbon Project™, Source-Handler-Data™, Open-Geospatial .NET™, Location-based Social Networking™, Gaia™, MyPlace™, Neighborhoods™ and ((Echo))MyPlace™ are trademarks of Carbon Project, Inc.

Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.


Key ConceptsKey Concepts

Location-based Content

CarbonCloud & Ad hoc Networks

Sharing Content

Neighborhoods

Friends

Smart Search


Location-based ContentLocation-based Content• Location-based content (referred to as geospatial) is

widespread.

• Some estimate that as much as 90% of all digital content has some degree of ‘location’ reliance in it.

• This type of digital content is all around us – GPS, digital photos, mapping services, air-traffic data, electricity grids, real estate and bank transactions, defense and intelligence and more….


CarbonCarbonProjectProjectMission…Mission…

.NET Developer Tools that make location-based content accessible and usable to everyone, everywhere, including the CarbonTools™ extension to the .NET Framework 2.0.

Government and Security Solutions, including Gaia™, CarbonArc™ and geospatial interoperability engineering services.

Location-based Social Networking™, including ((Echo))MyPlace™ and CarbonCloud™, the first peer-to-peer (P2P) framework for sharing location content.


• Connecting people and places.

• Sharing and finding location-based information about your neighborhood.

• Connecting directly with friends and neighbors.

• Powered by CarbonTools and the CarbonCloud framework.

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CarbonTools?CarbonTools?

• Enhancement to the .NET framework

• Geospatial interoperability toolkit

• Robust and extendible toolto develop geosocial applications


• World’s first P2P framework designed to allow people to share and find experiences about places.

• No server or web-site involved, the connected computers is all it takes!

What’s CarbonCloud?What’s CarbonCloud?


• CarbonCloud P2P technology enables connections directly between users’ computers.

• Instantly share notes, digital photos and maps in safe/secure environment– No server or web-site involved, the connected computers is all it takes.– Functions even if Internet connection is lost or disabled during crisis.

• Unique Internal Caching tools let you work with Framework Data online, or offline - pan, zoom and work with your location content while offline.

Ad hoc & survivable networksAd hoc & survivable networks


Mallory’s digital camera withgeostamped pictures of

Garden City

CarbonCloud - creating contentCarbonCloud - creating content

This Place is Awesome!

-77.0515,38.8728


CarbonCloud - sharing contentCarbonCloud - sharing contentMallory Shares her Note…

Thanks!Thanks!

…Beth searches CarbonCloud over Garden City

and finds Mallory’s Note

Mallory

Beth


Forming Neighborhoods Forming Neighborhoods • Basic unit for sharing experiences about places - network of

connected computers.

• Form to share experiences over particular areas - like a weekend tour of wineries near Garden City…or a response to crisis.

• Form your own to spread your message.


Developing Neighborhoods Developing Neighborhoods • Once online and active they connect people who want to get

connected.

• Develop over time as location content is shared – the more people share, the more your message spreads.

• Create local digital communities in a meeting room, office site, household or the next door neighbors.


Sample “LoSoNet” Application for Sample “LoSoNet” Application for Crisis Management…Crisis Management…

Photo Courtesy of FEMA


• Gaia 3 for Incident Response (Gaia 3/IR)

– Combines NSDI Framework data access with new peer-to-peer (P2P) capabilities to share user-generated, incident information.

– Provide enhanced situational awareness and information sharing.

The ApplicationThe Application

Any Incidents at Bank of America

Stadium?


Real-Time Content(Traffic, Weather)

Framework Data Services Internet-based Networks

Geospatial One-Stop

NCOneMapYahoo Maps

National Map

MicrosoftVirtual Earth

Mecklenburg, Wake County etc.

Unique ArchitectureUnique Architecture

Combines

Adhoc, SurvivablePeer-to-Peer (P2P) Networking…

with

Framework DataAccess…


Unique Framework Data Access FunctionsUnique Framework Data Access Functions

Gaia 3/IR – Accessing multiple “Katrina” WFS streams from EPA, combined with Microsoft Virtual Earth and User-generated Content

Gaia 3/IR –

High-resolution

Wake County, NC

Web Map Services


Advanced Symbology

Handling

Tools for Creating & Sharing Content

Internal Caching for working

Online/Offline

Multi-Source Map Display

Survivable, Ad hoc P2P Networking

Easy Map Navigation Tools

Uses OGC WFS, GML, WMS, Tile-based Content(Yahoo, MS VE etc.)

Basic FeaturesBasic Features

“Place Me” Functions via GPS


Connecting to Friends…Connecting to Friends…

Photo Courtesy of FEMA


Group of responders arrive at the site of an incident (Bank of America Stadium). Need to recognize each other, set up an ‘ad hoc’ CarbonCloud network and start sharing incident Notes…

New group –Units 4 and 5


PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING

New group steps into the range of the local CarbonCloud, they will appear and can be added if they are on the Friends-list, have correct identity and are at the right “level” (local vs. global)...

Friends-list Unit 4 Unit 5


PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING

Incident Notes exchanged across the P2P network. Provides a way to recognize friends or partners in the street or at an incident, add them to local CarbonClouds, and then disband the clouds and move on.

Notes are “Echo’d” across the Cloud


CarbonAtlas - Search CarbonAtlas - Search

Encode the spatial, ontologic and ‘partonomic’ knowledge of experts.

Searching the CarbonCloud and Framework.

Any Incidents at Bank of America

Stadium?

Incidents

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• Enhancement to the .NET framework

• Geospatial interoperability toolkit

• Robust and extendible toolto develop geosocial applications

Based on CarbonTools PROBased on CarbonTools PRO


Thanks!Thanks!

Contact:Jeff Harrison, President and CEO

[email protected]

www.thecarbonproject.com

CarbonTools™, CarbonTools PRO™, CarbonArc™, CarbonCloud™, The Carbon Project™, Source-Handler-Data™, Open-Geospatial .NET™, Location-based Social Networking™, Gaia™, MyPlace™ and ((Echo))MyPlace™ are trademarks of Carbon Project, Inc.

Other product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners.

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