CV-1: Vision for the Architecture Capabilities

This model describes the CV-1 DoDAF-described model for SINERGY architecture specification. It describes the overall vision of SINERGY capabilities.

Vision

SINERGY strategic vision is to transform the way campus safety is provided. Currently solutions are characterized by the deployment and use of stovepipe solutions without much integration. Campus surveillance is operated by the police, notification systems are operated by the public relations office, and the website is managed by IT Office. Calls to 911 are routed to a single dispatch system. There is no integration of all these capabilities to create a common picture of campus at any point in time.

SINERGY architecture describes a solution that integrates existing and new technologies through the adoption of service orientation principles. It envisions a network-centric solution where everything is connected to everything else in order to create an augmented situational awareness about the campus environment shared not only among administrators and law enforcement personnel but also among students, faculty, and staff.

Capabilities Supporting the Vision

Campus safety should be thought of in terms of three essential capabilities: Security Control, Situational Awareness, and Emergency Response Management. Table 4 summarizes the list of capabilities that we enlisted from stakeholders. The capabilities are categorized by the essential capabilities.

Table 1: A list of SINERGY capabilities

Security Control
1	Diverse incident detection tools
2	Diverse incident reporting tools
3	On-demand surveillance to avoid privacy issues
Situational Awareness
4	Common operational picture
5	GIS and campus visualization capabilities
6	Audible situational awareness capabilities
7	Visual situational awareness capabilities
8	Electronic text situational awareness capabilities
Emergency Response Management
9	Direct communication with emergency response personnel
10	Response coordination capabilities
11	Documentation and bookkeeping of decisions, expenses, and damages
12	Training and education of personnel and the public

Services Supporting the Capabilities

SINERGY provides a set of four types of services:

• Core web services
• Mobile app services
• Data access services
• Business process services

Core web services are basic web services that provide the core functionality. Pure web services do not provide a graphical user interface to the consumer. Rather, these services are consumed through service interfaces specified in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). Application web services are services that provide functionality through a browser or a client application. They are consumed through a graphical user interface. 

Mobile app services are services that provide functionality optimized to run on mobile devices through a mobile app. Consumers download an app on their mobile devices and access the functionality through the app.

Data access services are services that provide access to data of interest to consumers. These services also do not provide a graphical user interface, and they are consumed through service interfaces.

Business process services are services provided by human elements to complement the operations of the overall system.

The list of services that SINERGY provides includes:

Business Process Services:

1. Process fax report service
2. Process 911 call report service
3. Process in-person report service
4. Process two-way radio report service

System Security:

1. Authenticate user service
2. Authorize user service
3. Validate policy service

Incident Reporting:

1. Email report service
2. Text message report service
3. Mobile app report service
4. Police in-car report service
5. Web portal report service

Incident Detection:

1. Register sensor service
2. De-register sensor service
3. Update sensor service
4. Manage sensor service
5. Sensor report service
6. Register camera service
7. De-register camera service
8. Manage camera service
9. Camera report service

Notifications:

1. Update classroom electronic boards service
2. Update digital signage service
3. Invoke siren light service
4. Invoke fire alarm system lights service
5. Invoke siren service
6. Push voicemail service
7. Update homepage service
8. Push text message service
9. Push instant message service
10. Push mobile app alert service
11. Push desktop application alert service

Data Access:

1. Access building schematic service
2. Access campus digital map service
3. Access GIS data service
4. Access medical records service
5. Access HR records service
6. Access student records service
7. Access police criminal records service
8. Alert fire department service
9. Alert hospital service
10. Access sensed data store service
11. Access surveillance data store service

Enterprise Service Bus:

1. Register a service
2. Update a service
3. Revoke a service
4. Lockup a service
5. Invoke a service
6. Convert data service
7. Route protocol service

Common Operational Picture:

1. Create COP service
2. Update COP service
3. Share COP service

Capability Development Timeline

The deployment of these capabilities should follow a logical order to avoid development and deployment bottlenecks. This logical order is summarized in the following acronym: DAPR (Detect, Alert, Plan, and Respond). We list each phase with it corresponding capabilities.

Phase 1: Detect

1. Diverse incident detection tools
2. Diverse incident reporting tools
3. On-demand surveillance to avoid privacy issues

Phase 2: Alert

1. Audible situational awareness capabilities
2. Visual situational awareness capabilities
3. Electronic text situational awareness capabilities

Phase 3: Plan

1. Common operational picture
2. GIS and campus visualization capabilities
3. Direct communication with emergency response personnel

Phase 4: Respond

1. Response coordination capabilities
2. Documentation and bookkeeping of decisions, expenses, and damages
3. Training and education of personnel and the public