Jixel pills
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What is Jixel?Jixel is a suite of a web based applications, allowing emergency services (fire and rescue, ambulances, police, civil protection) to seamlessly exchange information during day by day operations and when managing catastrophic events and their aftermath. |
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Why use Jixel?Speed, coordination and transfer of information across Emergency Services are key in providing effective reaction and response to an incident. Having a common view on what is really going on makes the difference in managing day-by-day incidents or large events that may rapidly require the involvement of several rescue teams. Control rooms need to work in combination and often to cooperate on the same events. Jixel let emergency services with different specialisation (e.g. fire and rescue or ambulances) and/or covering different geographical areas have a common dataset, rapidly interoperate on it and share a collaborative view on the same geography. |
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The name 'jixel'A jixel (or jigsaw element) is a piece of information (an incident or a feature) that emergency services want to share. Information are displayed on a collaborative map, just like a jigsaw puzzle is built by many tiles. |
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Jixel compliant with National standardsJixel is fully compliant with the interoperability standard adopted by the Italian National Fire Department (Ministry of Interior) with the Decree dated 17 June 2008. |
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The Jixel data structureJixel uses the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) to exchange messages between emergency services. CAP is the standard XML data format Jixel uses to manage information about incident location and other relevant data. It allows you to understand the way other Emergency Services classify incidents. CAP is very powerful in doing this and, in addition, Jixel make use of TSO, a Dictionary of terms describing incident types in different languages. |
