Mayday/Roll Call Application (MRA)
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1. ooocccccnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnncncnnnos 6 3 Figure 6 8 Assign Mayday from Radio Status Table ooococcncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnss 6 4 UN A 6 4 Fig re 010 Resolved Mayday in Alerts Tables til Y GO Y MC OO DON Ed O NON DO GOED FO 6 5 Fi211c 6 11 Polline trom Radio Status Tables ae ue nn aen Con dnon dd 6 5 Fiure Or 2 FOUR ado EU E RO o GU E eo lou o ne nu od 6 6 Figure 6 13 Alerts Table Showing an Active Mayday and a Resolved Mayday oooooncccccccnnnncccnnnnonononanonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnoss 6 7 Figure 6 14 Accessing Radio Data Box from Alerts Table ooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmsscorccccccccncccccccccccccccccccccccncncnoss 6 7 Eiu elo Companies A RC A Y oU EN FU o CO 6 8 111 Figure 0 16 Companies I able Detail sosie tii GYM ddad 6 8 Piste o 17 C omp amy ROS aitor 6 9 Fio ure 6215 Rec SR OSTOL creido iii 6 9 Pieire Fol Om V 16 WEL ax Y RR AFR RW FR FFYN FWY EY FIR SN FFY FF YNA FY FA dd 7 1 Piste 7 2 Current and Previous oe Piles da ada 7 2 Fis ure 2 5 Lot A CO GO UD dod UF o y YU Dd Y UF DG OR 7 3 1V ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS Acronym Definition APAA APX Personnel Accountability Application APX Designator For Motorola First Responder Radios ID Identification MSI Motorola Solutions Inc NAC Network Access Code PAR Personnel Accountability Request PC Personal Computer PTT Push To Talk RF Radio Freguency SDI Systems Definition I2. Companies Company Name Added Radio Status Radio Assignment Name Goodman Francisco Paul 8 Firefighter Firefighter 2 670 Land Anton Mathew Bible Jared Roy Engine 3 Chauffuer Engine 1 Engine 3 Firefigher 2 Ladder 2 Engine 1 Chauffuer Engine 3 Engine 1 Officer Engine 1 Firefighter 2 Ladder 2 Officer Ladder 2 Firefighter Engine 3 Officer Cancel Engine 1 Firefighter Figure 6 18 Refresh Roster Upon downloading the most recent ride list information the Refresh Roster button returns to the default setting and the new ride list information is displayed If the APAA is unable to update the company s ride list the button does not return to the default setting and a dialog box notif1es the user of the failed attempt 6 9 Company Name Added 7 LOG FILES APAA generates and records log files each time the application is used Users can view log files either from the APAA application or from the logs folder contained within the PC s APAA folder Four types of log files are generated e Incident Captures information pertaining to incident data e g application start portable radio transmissions etc e Diagnostic Captures information pertaining to APAA status e g software module upload roster radio list download status error messages etc e PAR Rollcall Captures information pertaining to PAR Rollcall data e g PAR Rollcall start end accounted
3. 5 1 Each unit can also be expanded or collapsed individually by clicking the Collapse Expand button 3 see Figure 5 3 Note that the accountability status colors green yellow red are maintained whether the unit is displayed in a collapsed or expanded view en U 10 SDI Est ma Relleved Clee Tactical 1 1 Engine 1 JA Engine 3 Cal Ladder 2 00 00 00 00 lt 00 00 00 00 Figure 5 3 Individual Unit Collapsed Expanded 5 3 Unit Assignments Pull Down APAA allows the Incident Commander to assign units to specific assignments Assignments are defined within the APAA Configuration Utility The Assignments pull down list is used to designate a unit with a role location at an incident see Figure 5 4 m 00 1 4 3 5 A SWN INC Ladder 2 o CII ME Chauffuer Officer Chautfuer oo tit auffuer Division D RIT On Deck o gt Staging Clark Alex Joe Alvarez Scott Billy Goodman Francisco Paul Rehab 10 18 07 Tactical 1 10 18 05 Tactical 1 10 18 07 Tacticald EMS q AA E On Air A 2 gt 1st Floor Firefighter 2 Firefighter Firefighter 2 2nd Floor ard Floor 4th Floor 10 17 54 Tactical 4 10 17 58 Tactical 1 10 18 08 Tactical 1 5th Floor i Unassigned Vargas David Cory Bible Jarred Roy Land Anton Mathew Figure 5 4 Assignment Pull Down 5 2 Units with designated assignments will be displayed left most in priority order match
4. A ms Engine 1 a Ladder 2 Engine 3 ay unassigned 00 00 00 HJ S Unassigned 00 0 Engine 3 Chauffeur Ee Radio Assignment Engine 3 Chauffeur Name Gray Edwin Donald Battery Life 60 Poll Status Alert s Poll Radio Cancel Unassigned 00 00 x Mayday Account Figure 5 11 Account for Member 5 6 The member s name 1s now highlighted in green as shown in Figure 5 12 lA 3 00 05 40 om Engine 1 Engine 3 Ladder 2 00 00 00 AS 00 00 00 fe Yu 00 00 00 AL Relleved Figure 5 12 Accounted For Member in Green An active Mayday must be resolved before that member can be manually accounted for see section 5 5 1 for information on resolving Maydays ap Tactical 1 a Rollcall Active Accounted For 11 12 Last Tx Engine 1 Officer a ce 3 00 00 00 Ec Ea Engine 1 00 00 00 DS Ladder 2 Unassigned 00 00 00 ww OOM Raido Assignment Engine 1 Circe Unassigned Name Cole Ricardo Mathew Battery Life 00 Poll Stalus Alert s Wycuy l j Poll Radio Cancel Figure 5 13 Account Button is Unavailable until Mayday is Resolved To manually designate a member as unaccounted for click the Unaccount button in the Member dialog box see Figure 5 14 5 7 cd T DERN n 4 Rollcall Active Accounted Far 12 12 Last Tx Engine
5. Engine 11 i Engine 12 Engine 13 Engine 14 Engine 2 NUMBER OF Engine 3 Engine 4 COMPANIES ACTIVE SELECTED co Figure 4 6 Relieve Companies Dialog Box The left column in the Relieve Companies dialog box lists applicable Departments The Department highlighted in green is the active Department with its associated Companies listed to the right The numbers in parentheses following the Department name denote the number of Companies active selected as compared to the overall number of Companies in the Department see Figure 4 0 Companies with radios detected on scene are shown in green Grey indicates no radios from that Company have been detected on scene As shown in Figure 4 7 the Incident Commander can select an individual Company to filter out PTT traffic from note the red strike out symbol in Engine 3 The PTT data is still collected in the log files but is not shown in APAA GES A Bataion1 Eee MN Engine 10 Ende 11 J deau e Engine 12 Engine 13 Engine 14 Engi Figure 4 7 Relieve Companies Dialog Box Showing a Company That Has Been Relieved The Department shown in grey BFD in Figure 4 6 and Figure 4 7 on the left is not highlighted and may be selected to display that Department s Companies on the right Multiple Departments may be available within APAA depending on how APAA is configured e g set up to identify other local Departments that may participate at
6. Eiu 5 20 oll sed UNS nadan dnd elsa 5 1 Figure 3 Individual Umit Collapsed Expanded eso dolida 5 2 Fouc 5 4 Asse iment Full DOW I tania 5 2 Pitre SC ROSE ES AN dra 5 3 Figure 5 6 Member Dialog box During Evacuation or PAR Rollcall oooooococcccnnnnnnnnnnnnnnonnnnnnncnnncnnnnnnnoss 5 4 Figure 5 7 Member Dialog box When Not in Evacuation or PAR Rollcall oooooooooooononocccnccncnnnnncnnnnnnnnss 5 4 Picie ia Mayday AAA EF O RF NE FFF NE DR NA TF HR 5 5 Feie NI o EFE RF NR CR o HF FRAU WYNN NNI 5 5 Pig tre 10 RESOLVE Nad y a adn 5 0 Figure 511 Account Ior Member cae i A Sd GU iD Y a EA YA 5 0 Figure 5 12 Accounted For Member in Green ia 5 7 Figure 5 13 Account Button is Unavailable until Mayday is Resolved oooooonnnnncccnnnnccncnonnonononnnnccnnncnnnnnnnnnnonnnnnnos 5 7 Figure gt c14 Manually Unaccount BUON aiii ltd 5 8 Figure 5 15 Unaccounted For Member in Yellow ooooocccncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnss 5 8 Figure be Load ao o O a nd o nn ed do 5 9 Feur 5217 Pome Tit Pro STE SS liebe 5 9 Figure als Radio Un polainas ltd 5 10 I ee eu EON a Man Scree rotas lin lin td 6 1 Prete 02 Radio Status Labolsa dida 6 2 Ein 0 5 Myd ay ea ua i dp ac 6 2 Pisure 0 4 Unpollabl ueu DG di io DU GUDD iia 6 2 Piste 05 Channel Estudia 6 3 PIS Ure 060 Radio Dll didas 6 3 Figure 6 7 Mayday Transmission Highlighting in Radio Status Table
7. PTT transmissions including emergency alert transmissions by timestamp member name unit and position assignment using data from department data sources if available e Conducting rapid electronic Personnel Accountability Requests PARs rollcalls and evacuations via PTT e Conducting acknowledged evacuations e Recording detailed incident log files denoting PTT data and accountability events e g rollcalls alerts etc to assist post incident record keeping and incident reviews Table 1 1 APX Accountability Application Feature Set PTT ID Display Displays radio ID number or radio alias Emergency Alert Indicator Displays emergency alert message data EVAC Alerting Sends receives evacuation message evacuation acknowledgements Accountability Registration Detects registers subscriber radio at power up Polling Polls for subscriber radios in the vicinity Power Down Indicator Identifies subscriber radios that have powered off Channel Left Indicator Identifies subscriber radios that have changed channels Battery Level Indicator Identifies subscriber radios with low battery levels 1 1 00 05 32 Engine 1 Engine 3 Unassigned Figure 1 1 APX Personnel Accountability Application User Interface 1 2 Document Organization This document is organized as follows e Section 1 Introduction e Section 2 Maydays e Section 3 Launching APAA e Section 4 APAA Overview e Section 5 Using APAA Grap
8. 3 Officer Collapse All i Engine 1 gt n Ti MW Engine 3 CMA Ladder 2 Unassigned 00 00 00 i unassig 00 00 00 m Engine 1 Officer bx Radio Assignment Engine 1 Officer Name Cole Hicardo Mathew Battery Life 90 Poll Status Alert s Mayday Figure 5 14 Manually Unaccount Button Unaccount a j i The member s name is now highlighted in yellow as shown in Figure 5 15 22 00 07 50 SDIS Tactical 1 2 1 Rolcall Active Accounted For 11 12 Last Tx Engine 1 Chauffeur END Engine 1 Dr Engine 3 Ladder 2 277 00 00 00 NES 00 00 00 YE Figure 5 15 Unaccounted For Member in Yellow 5 5 3 Poll Radio Button To manually poll a radio click the Po11 Radio button in the Member dialog box Figure 5 16 5 8 q Accounted For 12 12 Last Tx Engine 3 Chauffeur gt rt Ladder2 5 EE PE ingne d Chiuflesi x Engine 1 unassigned 00 00 00 YN Radio Assignment Engine 3 Chauteur Name Gray Edwin Donald Battery Lifes 100 Poll Status Alert s Mayday user Unaccount orar Pot Radi Poll Radio Figure 5 16 Poll Radio Engine 3 tm 00 00 00 AL The Poll Status displays Polling and the Poll Radio button is grayed out while the RF Modem polls for the selected radio as shown in Figure 5 17 The Poll Status changes to Success if the selected radio is detected Hi lt 00 09 17 Relieved g Cita
9. Engine 1 Officer Cole Ricardo Mathew 13 40 31 40 13 40 31 Engine 1 Firefighter 2 i 13 40 28 30 5 y YN O D E a O o 2 Engine 1 Firefighter Beal Dante Johnny 100 Ladder 2 Firefighter 70 Ladder 2 Firefighter 2 Land Anton Mathew 40 Engine 3 Firefighter Gentry Kelley Jesse 70 Ladder 2 Oficer warez scot Buy rsaozo ao per e Radio Assignment Engine 1 Firefighter 2 o a m E p a a 2 3 Name Vargas David Cory Battery Life 30 Poll Status Alert s Mayday Unaccount Poll Radio Cancel Figure 6 14 Accessing Radio Data Box from Alerts Table CLICK A RADIO ASSIGNMENT IN ALERT TABLE TO OPEN RADIO DATA BOX Alerts Radio Assignment lame iven Resolved Type 6 7 6 3 Companies Table The Companies table displays companies with radio activity as shown 1n Figure 6 15 Radio transmissions from companies in the Companies table are displayed in the Radio Status table AOGA 5 COMPANIES TABLE RADIO TRANSMISSION DATA FROM COMPANIES LISTED IN COMPANIES TABLE Figure 6 15 Companies Table The Companies table Figure 6 16 columns display the following e Company Name Company identification e Added Time the company was added to the table e g time that first transmission was received from a member of that company or dispatched time 1f available Companies Company Name Added Engine 4 12 09 14 Engine 1 E
10. for personnel etc this file is only created only if a PAR Rollcall was conducted during the application session e Evacuation Captures information pertaining to evacuation data e g when a Mayday was received who had a Mayday who was unaccounted for etc 7 1 Log Viewer With the APAA application open press CTRL SHIFT L to open the Log Viewer dialog box as shown 1n Figure 7 1 This dialog box allows the user to view log files for the APAA 2 LogViewer M x Curent Files Only fiogs 2015 4 20 10 1_incident rt 7 Y ae 52 AM Application started Device ID Version 2 0 0 529 Operational E 08 AM Incoming Transmission Ended 2003 Ladder 1 Firefighter 2 09 AM Roster for Ladder 1 processed 4 riders listed Officer White Jean Wayne Chaueffuer Chauhan Dhiren Firefighter 1 Alvarez Scott Billy Firefighter 2 Logan Clayton Jason 11 AM Incoming Transmission Ended 900 Chief Richard Gilpin 11 AM Roster for Radios with No Company processed 0 riders listed 13 AM Incoming Transmission Ended 660 Engine 1 Chaueffuer 14 AM Roster for Engine 1 processed 4 riders listed Officer Hopkins Shane Jose Chaueffuer Cunningham Thomas Mark Firefighter i Smith Cheryl A Firefighter 2 Alvarez Scott Billy 16 AM Incoming Transmission Ended 690 Engine 1 Firefighter 2 18 AM Incoming Transmission Started 650 Engine i Officer 20 AM Incoming Transmission Ended 660 Engine 1 Chauef
11. mutual aid incidents Click OK to complete your selections or Cancel to close the dialog box without making any changes 4 1 4 Clear Button To clear data from the Graphical and Table views click the Clear button In the dialog box that appears see Figure 4 8 select unselect the following default is all items checked e Clear Rosters e Reset Incident Timer e Clear Radio Data me Relieved Engine 1 Engine 3 Clear Data Unassigned Y Clear Rosters Officer Chauffuer Officer Warner Carroll Fred Clark Alex Joe Holloway Simon Jerr Goodman Francisco Paul 09 45 07 Tactical 1 09 45 15 Tactical 1 09 45 08 Tactical 1 Y Clear Radio Data 09 45 06 Tactical 1 Firefighter Firefighter 2 Gentry Kelley Jesse d Roy Land Anton Mathew 09 45 16 Tactical 1 oar cancel Tactical 1 09 45 14 Tactical 4 Figure 4 8 Clear Data Options wv Reset Incident Timer Click Cancel to close the dialog box without making any changes Click the Clear button with all items checked to remove all radio transmission data unit roster data and timer data from the Graphical and Table views Figure 4 9 shows data cleared from the Graphical view Please note that clearing data removes Mayday and other alert data including alert data contained in the Table view Alerts table Note that even 1f all data is cleared using this function of APAA the log files that capture all radio transmission data will still capture and save all data Refer to s
12. or poll a member s radio to determine whether the radio is still within the vicinity and powered on To terminate evacuation activities click the End evacuate button amp then click End Evacuation in the dialog box See Figure 4 15 Click Cancel to close the dialog box without ending the Evacuation Please note that automatic radio polling if selected as part of APAA configuration settings is halted during evacuation activities A log file is created for each evacuation conducted Refer to section 7 of this document for additional information on log files 4 8 00 01 24 SD sra Collapse All Engine 3 Radio Assignment Engme 1 Olfcer Name Cole Ricardo Mathew Ballery Lile 90 Alerl s Mayday Account Poll Radio Cancel Figure 4 14 Manually View Status of Individual Member NE MA E 00 18 57 Expand All Engine 1 Ladder 2 ENT Are you sure you wish to end the current Evacuation ve 5 a Figure 4 15 End Evacuation 4 9 4 4 2 PAR Rolicall Another important function of APAA is to provide the capability to conduct a PTT based PAR check or Rollcall to rapidly account for members by capturing member PTT acknowledgements This significantly reduces the time reguired to conduct a PAR Rollcall and reduces the load on the radio system by minimizing voice coordination typically required to complete a PAR Rollcall It 1s similar in some respects to conducting evacuation activities Howe
13. required navigation steps When a connection to the Radio Frequency RF Modem is established the channel name 1s displayed in the tab below the main buttons and the Modem status box is highlighted in green section 4 1 1 Depending on the APAA configuration settings there may also be an audible alert notifying the user that the RF Modem has connected to a radio channel APAA supports the use of one channel at a time and permits selection of any available configured Department channel If the ERROR RFModem Not Detected dialog box is displayed upon launching APAA as shown in Figure 3 1 use the APAA Configuration utility to assign the correct RF Modem module BANW 00 00 34 ERROR EFF lace Mel Detected xl Could not find an RFModem present on this machine Please make sure it is plugged in turned on and has the proper drivers installed Figure 3 1 ERROR RFModem Not Detected 3 1 4 APAA OVERVIEW This section provides an overview of APAA Figure 4 1 shows the main APAA components 00 00 41 SDI Festes i ae Relieved Collapse All Engine 1 Engine 3 GE 00 00 00 Y 00 00 00 AL Officer Warner Carroll Fred 10 04 06 Tactical 1 Firefighter Sutton Michael Homer 10 04 03 Tactical 1 Land Anton Mathew 10 04 07 Tactical Figure 4 1 APAA Main Screen Graphical View The upper portion of the main APAA screen see Figure 4 2 contains the function buttons the RF modem statu
14. 4 15 14 15 incident 3 20 20 1 14 Pl 2015 3 26 19 10_incident 3 26 2015 4 44 PM 3 26 2015 4 27 PM 3 26 2015 4 48 PM 3 26 2015 4 48 PM 3 26 2015 5 27 PM 3 26 2015 5 27 PM 3 26 2015 7 14 PM 3 26 2015 8 26 PM 3 26 2015 8 26 PM 3 26 2015 7 19 PM 3 27 2015 3 42 PM 3 27 2015 3 42 PM 3 27 2015 3 30 PM 3 27 2015 3 38 PM 3 27 2015 3 39 PM 3 31 2015 12 59 PM 3 31 2015 11 32 AM 4 15 2015 2 14 PM 4 15 2015 2 14 PM 4 15 2015 2 18 PM 4 15 2015 2 18 PM Rich Text Format Rich Text Format Rich Text Format Rich Text Format Rich Text Format Rich Text Format AL rO Rich Text Format Rich Text Format Rich Text Format Rich Text Format Rich Text Format Rich Text Format Rich Text Format Rich Text Format Rich Text Format Rich Text Format Rich Text Format Rich Text Format Rich Text Format Rich Text Format Figure 7 3 Log Files Rich Text Format 4 KB 1 KB 7KB 9 KB 3 KB 19 KB 7 KB 6 KB 36 KB 3 KB 4 KB 54 KB 3 KB 3 KB 3 KB 4 KB 1 KB 3 KB 1 KB 5 KB 11 KB
15. 5 3 26 17 21_incident rtf Firefighter 2 logs 2015 3 26 19 10_diagnostic rtf Firefighter 1 10 03 11 AM Incoming 10 03 14 AM Roster fo Firefighter 1 Firefighter 2 ogs 2015 4 20 10 1 incident rtf logs 2015 4 20 10 1_incident rtf logs 2015 4 20 10 1_diagnostic rtf ogs 2015 4 20 10 3 1 evacrtf bBrational de 3 2 evacitf 2 logs 2015 3 26 16 20_diagnostic rtf logs 2015 3 26 16 20 i 2015 3 26 19 14_diagnostic rtf 10 03 11 AM Roster fo Mn 32 19 14 incident sf 10 03 13 AM Incoming logs 2015 3 26 19 17_1_evac tf sted logs 2015 3 27 15 28_diagnostic rtf logs 2015 3 27 15 28 incident f Officer Hopllogs 2015 3 27 15 29 1_evacitf dlogs 2015 3 27 15 312 rollcall tf Chaueffuer logs 2015 3 27 15 38_3 rolicallrtf logs 2015 3 31 11 32_diagnostic rtf 10 03 16 AM Incoming 10 03 18 AM Incoming 10 03 20 AM Incoming logs 2015 4 15 14 15 incident tf 10 03 23 AM Incoming bryt byg che a 10 03 25 AM Incoming logs 2015 4 15 14 19 diagnostic rtf 10 03 28 AM Incoming legs 20154 15 14 15 incident af 10 03 30 AM Incoming Transmission Ended 680 Engine 1 Firefighter i 10 03 33 AM Incoming Transmission Started 2002 Ladder 1 Firefighter i 10 03 35 AM Incoming Transmission Ended 2003 Ladder 1 Firefighter 2 10 03 37 AM Incoming Transmission Started 670 Ladder i Officer 10 03 40 AM Incoming Transmission Started 2002 Ladder 1 Firefighter 1 10 03 42 AM Incomi
16. Ladder 2 Firefighter Bible Janed Roy STATUS CCT IT fem SS TABLE EXC TCTIC TN SSCS 1 mA Later Chaunuer LORA Francisco Pail 10 o B AU Ladder 2 Fire gmier 2 Land Anton Mathew ALE RTS Radio Assignment TABLE E E Figure 6 1 APAA Main Screen 6 1 Radio Status Table Companies Company Hami Ladder 2 Engine 1 Added TOO COMPANIES TABLE Click the View function button at the top of the screen to view the Radio Status table This view allows users to see a log of transmissions as they occur Each row represents a PTT transmission as shown in Figure 6 2 6 1 Radio Status Radio Assignment Name Transmit Time Battery Status Engine 3 Firefighter Gentry Kelley Jesse 10 37 19 100 Ladder 2 Officer Alvarez Scott Billy 10 37 18 30 Ladder 2 Chauffuer Goodman Francisco Pai 10 37 17 Engine 1 Chauffuer Clark Alex Joe Engine 3 Firefigher 2 Fort n Scott Brandon 10 37 14 Ladder 2 Firefighier 2 Land Anton Mathew 10 37 11 30 0 100 Engine 3 Officer Holloway Simon Jerry 10 37 07 50 Engine 1 Firefighter 2 vargas David Cory 10 37 05 50 Figure 6 2 Radio Status Table The most recent transmission displays at the top of the table by default The sort order of the Radio Status table can be modified using the APAA Configuration tool See APAA Installation and Configuration Guide The Radio Status table columns display the following e Radio Assignment Member s unit and
17. SDI SYSTEMS DEFINITION INC APX Personnel Accountability Application User Manual S May 2015 Systems Definition Inc 5904 Richmond Highway Suite 330 Alexandria VA 22303 703 717 0222 www systemsdefinition com www firegroundaccountability com Copyright 2015 Systems Definition Inc All Rights Reserved TABLE OF CONTENTS E INGER OID GIO Ni ss A A DO 1 1 1 1 APX PERSONNEL ACCOUNTABILITY APPLICATION OVERVIEW cccccssscccecsssccccesececeeseceeaeccesseeceeaueecesanees 1 1 K gt DOCUMENT ORGANIZATION oops 1 2 Es DOCUMEN EC ON ENTION Ga se aa a O RA E 1 2 2 MALDAD 2 1 A NMIANEBARE MAYDAY ao 2 1 22 NER BA Dee MADA S ria wf a Dd Y A nn Y YD NO od O NO 2 1 23 45AUNCHING AP AA oia 3 1 3 1 STARTING APAA ON A PORTABLE COMPUTER sccccsssecceesseceeeaescceceneccceuseceeaeeccesaeceeeueceeaeeccesunecesaueceeees 3 1 d APAA OVERVIEW oiia E 4 1 del EUNCHONDU LON Se o i Sa a E 4 1 a Os NF FN RR RY OIE YH NN ST O EAEE E K ANT Y 4 2 AA A o RR CC A A GC nian YR RC RR Y HN REF ynn 4 2 AAA PAS PR RI CY YP YRR YN YR RR NY NN NY NN 4 4 ANAC CAE DUO E ETS re OO ON III XR ET CA ARE EN E 4 5 A2 REMODEM STATUS BOX eidi Ge oan Cn OUR uo GOD ricos 4 6 or INCIDENTE LUMER AA CD 4 6 Tb MEGAPHONE BUTTON o OS 4 6 AN ME AC UAL Y IT Nr NA NA 4 7 PANS PAR ROCA AA O MI a A Y RH A A E O ots 4 10 A A FR Y Y FEN FE FAR 4 12 gt USING APAA GRAPHICAL VIEW wsssssssecsscvssacabencsccdasacacedtonsescasaansa
18. Unassigned j oc Ladder 2 e 5 7 Unassigned 00 00 00 lt y Radio Assignment Engine 1 Chauffeur Name Acker Leonardo Carlos Battery Life 100 Poll Status Alert s Mayday Unaccount Poll Radio Cancel Figure 5 8 Assign Mayday The member turns red to indicate a Mayday The application s background flashes red as well Figure 5 9 An accounted for member assigned a Mayday will no longer be considered accounted for Dlls STEMS DEFINIT ON 1 Engine 1 engine 3 y f GR 00 00 00 O Ladder 2 Unassigned 00 00 00 4 lt Unassigned Figure 5 9 Mayday 5 5 To resolve the Mayday click on the Member again and click the Resolve button in the Member dialog box see Figure 5 10 Rollcall Active Accounted For 11 12 Last Tx Engine 1 Chauffeur END Engine 1 iS LAI Engine 3 Tay f Ladder 2 Sik Bk unassigned j 00 00 00 k Unassigned 00 00 00 pe Radio Assignment Engine 1 Officer Engine 1 Officer bs Mame Cole Ricardo Mathew Battery Life 30 Poll Status Alert s i Mgygay Cancel Figure 5 10 Resolve Mayday 5 5 2 Account Unaccount Button To manually account for a member during an electronic PAR Rollcall click the Account button from the Member dialog box see Figure 5 11 a 00 04 50 SYSTEMS u bL Rolcall Active Accounted For 11 12 Last Tx Engine 3 Firefigher 2 Collapse All LC END
19. arred Roy 13 38 05 Battery Life 50 Poll Status Polling Engine 3 Firefigher 2 Fortin Scott Brandon 13 38 04 Engine 3 Firefighter Gentry Kelley Jesse 13 37 59 Alert s Engine 3 Officer Holloway Simon Jerry 13 37 58 Mayday Unaccount Poll Radic Figure 6 11 Polling from Radio Status Table The Poll Status changes to Success if the selected radio is detected The Poll Status changes to Failed and the Radio Unpollable icon is displayed if the radio is not detected as shown in Figure 6 12 6 5 Radio Status ES eerie SD Radio Assignment Engine 3 Officer Engine 3 Chauffeur Engine 1 Firefighter Engine 1 Chauffeur Engine 3 Firefigher 2 Ladder 2 Officer Engine 3 Firefighter Engine 1 Officer Ladder 2 Chauffeur Engine 1 Firefighter 2 Ladder 2 Firefighter Name Transmit Time Battery Status Holloway Simon Jerry 13 39 38 50 Ladder 2 Firefighter2 Radio Assignment Ladder 2 Firefighter 2 Name Land Anton Mathew Battery Life 80 Poll Status Failed Alert s B Radio Unpollable Mayday Unaccount Poll Radio Figure 6 12 Poll Radio Failure Ix slo faa hoeddi cado daa Los alee To enable manual polling and the Poll Radio button see the APAA Installation and Configuration Guide 6 2 Alerts Table The Alerts table displays active and resolved Maydays Each table row represents a Mayday transmission with the most recent Maydays displayed at the top of t
20. auffuer Chauffuer Officer Chauffuer BUTTON Clark Alex Joe Alvarez Scott Billy Goodman Francisco Paul 40 06 00 Tactical 1 10 06 10 05 55 Tactical 4 10 05 54 Tactical 4 Firefigher 2 Firefighter Firefighter 2 Fortin Scott Brandon Bible Jarred Roy Land Anton Mathew 10 05 47 Tactical 1 10 05 53 Tactical 1 10 05 50 Tactical 1 Figure 4 11 Evacuation PAR Rollcall Buttons 4 4 1 Evacuation One of the most important functions of APAA is to provide the capability to evacuate members at an incident by allowing the Incident Commander to initiate an evacuation command from APAA The evacuation command is sent from APAA via the mobile radio connected to the APAA PC to all portable radios at the incident The portable radios receive the evacuation command and begin to emit a loud tone Members then press their radio s PTT button to acknowledge receipt of the evacuation command In the Graphical view APAA tracks the received acknowledgements and identifies members that have acknowledged the evacuation command as well as members who have not acknowledged the command Select the megaphone icon and then click the Evac button to launch the Initiate Evacuation dialog box See Figure 4 12 Click the Begin Evacuation button to start evacuation Sa Relleved fEngine3 AMG aer gt gt AGA Are you sure you wish to initiate Evacuation Cancel SS Figure 4 12 Begin Evacuation 4 7 During Evacuation activities APAA automatically swit
21. ches to the Graphical view and displays the number of members accounted for along with the total number of members to account for in the upper status area next to the Megaphone button Each member s acknowledgement status is shown via the color coded status box see Figure 4 13 Green indicates acknowledgement received yellow indicates no acknowledgement received and red indicates Mayday received For convenience e g in the case of a large incident with many responding units evacuation may be conducted in the collapsed view member details hidden or expanded view member details shown lu 12 00 18 26 So Channels View Relieved A rire Engine 1 el Ladder 2 00 02 50 EL 00 07 54 DH ODEL DOGO Figure 4 13 Viewing Ongoing Evacuation Status During Evacuation the Incident Commander may perform additional accountability actions for an individual member by selecting their name to display relevant member details see Figure 4 14 These actions include manually assigning Mayday emergency alert status For example during evacuation if a member indicates verbally that he or she is in immediate peril the Incident Commander could click the Mayday button for that member Selecting Mayday will cause that member s details box to be highlighted in red allowing the Incident Commander to easily maintain identity of that member and to focus assistance for that member The Incident Commander can also manually account for a member
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23. e two views available in APPA the Graphical view section 5 and the Table view section 6 These two views display accountability activities and status in different ways Figure 4 4 and Figure 4 5 illustrate the two different views during a received Mayday The Graphical view provides a top level visual look at accountability status generally organized by department unit It enables setting of unit timers and unit assignments among other features 4 2 a 00 07 06 SDI fevstens Collapse All Engine 1 Engine 3 Ladder 2 00 00 00 98177 00 00 00 Figure 4 4 Graphical View Received Mayday Message The Table view provides a column and row based display of personnel and status The Table view also displays an Alerts table which identifies active or resolved Maydays Radio Status Radio Assignment Name Transmit Time Battery Status A Alerts Resolved Type Radio Assignment Figure 4 5 Table View Received Mayday Message APAA users may prefer one view over the other as each view provides different visualization of accountability activities status and data along with different features and functions 4 3 4 1 3 Relieved Button The Relieved button allows users to view Department Companies and to filter on desired Companies Click the Relieved button to display the Relieve Companies dialog box see Figure 4 6 ed BFD 0 83 mo ar Gig 00 00 00 Engine 10
24. ection 7 of this document for more information on log files 4 5 fm ad mins Channels View Relieved a Figure 4 9 Incident Timer Reset and All Data Cleared Graphical View 4 2 RF Modem Status Box The RF modem status box is highlighted in green when APAA is connected to the RF modem The box is highlighted in red when there is no connection to the RF modem The box may be highlighted in yellow during a brief initialization phase 4 3 Incident Timer The incident timer starts when APAA loads and begins operations e g at vehicle power up Click on the incident timer then click on OK in the Reset Incident Timer dialog box to reset it to 00 00 00 see Figure 4 10 Click Cancel to close the dialog box without making any changes View Relieved Collapse All SJ Reset Incident Timer lol x Engine 2 Are you sure you want to reset the Incident Timer 00 00 00 Officer Chaueffuer j Collins Rickey Earl Nunez Anthony Nunez Anthony Edw Cancel 09 03 09 Tactical 4 09 03 40 09 03 40 Tactical Figure 4 10 Reset Incident Timer 4 4 Megaphone Button Evacuation and PAR Rollcall functions are accessed by clicking the megaphone icon E to reveal a pull down with the Evac and PAR Rollcall buttons see Figure 4 11 00 02 28 SDI SYSTEMS inc ae Relleved MEGAPHONE BUTTON Collapse All EVAC gt Engine 3 Ladder 2 HU ag 00 00 00 JN ti 00 00 00 Ss Unassigned 00 00 00 Die PAR ROLLCALL Ch
25. er Engine 3 Firefigher 2 Ladder 2 Officer Name Transmit Time Battery Acker Leonardo Carlos 13 34 56 30 Land Anton Mathew 13 34 55 Gray Edwin Donald 13 34 54 50 onanan rasa Passes fom Coe Reo amen Jia on Status Engine 1 Firefighter 2 x Radio Assignment Engine 1 Firefighter 2 Name Vargas David Cory Battery Life 100 Poll Status Figure 6 9 Resolve Mayday The resolved alert 1s highlighted in yellow in the Alerts table see Figure 6 10 Resolved Type Figure 6 10 Resolved Mayday in Alerts Table 6 1 3 Radio Polling To manually poll a radio select the radio in the Radio Status table then click the Poll Radio button The Poll Status displays Polling and the Poll Radio button is grayed out while the RF Modem polls for the selected radio as shown in Figure 6 11 T 3 00 19 00 Mr Relleved JA Clear j Radio Status Radio Assignment Name Transmit Time Battery Status Ladder 2 Chauffeur Goodman Francisco Pat 13 38 09 70 Engine 1 Officer Cole Ricardo Mathew 13 38 09 Ladder 2 Firefighter 2 Land Anton Mathew 13 38 08 E 0 Engine 1 Chauffeur Acker Leonardo Carlos 13 38 08 Ladder 2 Firefighter 2 xi Engine 3 Chauffeur Gray Edwin Donald 13 38 06 i Radio Assignment Ladder 2 Firefighter 2 Ladder 2 Officer Alvarez Scott Billy 13 38 06 Engine 1 Firefighter Beal Dante Johnny 13 38 05 Name Land Anton Mathew i n 20 o Ladder 2 Firefighter Bible J
26. ergency Alert button on the subscriber radio causing the radio to transmit a Mayday message Manual Maydays can be resolved either by the member pushing the Mayday button again to clear the alert or by the APAA user section 5 5 1 Note that resolving the Mayday on APAA does not act on the subscriber radio the member 1s still reguired to push and hold the Mayday button on the radio to clear the message If radio communications 1s hindered it may be necessary for the APAA user to resolve the Mayday displayed on screen even 1f the member has already pushed the Mayday button a second time thereby clearing the message at the subscriber radio 2 2 Verbal Mayday A verbal Mayday is initiated by the APAA user section 5 5 1 when a member gives a Mayday member in distress verbally over the handie talkie radio but does not push the Mayday button Verbal Emergency Alerts can be resolved by the APAA user section 5 5 1 3 LAUNCHING APAA This section provides information on how to start APAA on a portable Personal Computer PC APAA installation and configuration information is contained within separate documentation APAA Installation and Configuration Guide 3 1 Starting APAA on a Portable Computer To start APAA on a portable unit 1 Open the PC Power on the PC 3 Launch APAA by selecting APAA from the list of available programs on the Windows Start menu A shortcut to the application may be created on the PC desktop to reduce
27. fuer 23 AM Incoming Transmission Started 2001 Ladder 1 Chaueffuer 25 AM Incoming Transmission Ended 680 Engine 1 Firefighter i 28 AM Incoming Transmission Ended 670 Ladder 1 Officer 30 AM Incoming Transmission Ended 680 Engine 1 Firefighter i 33 AM Incoming Transmission Started 2002 Ladder 1 Firefighter i 35 AM Incoming Transmission Ended 2003 Ladder i Firefighter 2 37 AM Incoming Transmission Started 670 Ladder 1 Officer 40 AM Incoming Transmission Started 2002 Ladder 1 Firefighter 1 42 AM Incoming Transmission Started 690 Engine i Firefighter 2 44 AM Incoming Transmission Ended 2002 Ladder 1 Firefighter 1 47 AM Incoming Transmission Started 660 Engine 1 Chaueffuer 49 AM Incoming Transmission Ended 2002 Ladder 1 Firefighter 1 E AM Trneamine TMranemieceriann Ctartad gt s GON Enrina 1 Dirnafirsmhinar 1 Figure 7 1 Log Viewer Check the Current Files Only box to display log files for the current APAA session Uncheck this box then click the drop down list to display log files for current and previous logged APAA sessions as shown in Figure 7 2 Log file dates and times are appended to the beginning of the log file name 7 1 10 01 52 AM Applicati 10 03 08 AM Incoming EM A 10 03 09 AM Roster fo Officer Whitlogs 2015 3 26 16 44 diagnostic tf Chaueffuer logs 2015 3 26 16 44 incident tf logs 2015 3 26 17 21_diagnostic rtf a logs 201
28. he table The Alerts table columns display the following Emergency Alert information e Radio Assignment Member s unit and position e Name Name of member who sent the Emergency Alert transmission e Given Time of Emergency Alert transmission e Resolved Time of Mayday resolution e Type VERBAL or MANUAL refer back to section 2 of this document Rows for active Maydays are highlighted red The procedure to manually resolve a Mayday from the Alerts table is the same as for manually resolving a Mayday from the Radio Status table Click the Resolve button When a Mayday is resolved the row for that alert highlights yellow see Figure 6 13 6 6 Radio Assignment Resolved Type Figure 6 13 Alerts Table Showing an Active Mayday and a Resolved Mayday Accounting unaccounting for radios and Polling Radios from the Alerts table uses the same procedures as for the Radio Status table section 5 5 2 and section 5 5 3 Select Account Unaccount to either account or unaccount for a radio or select Poll Radio to poll the radio Figure 6 14 A 28 00 21 26 o Relieved EN Radio Status Radio Assignment Name Transmit Time Battery Status Ladder 2 Chauffeur Goodman Francisco Pat 13 40 35 80 Engine 1 Chauffeur Acker Leonardo Carlos 13 40 35 40 Engine 3 Firefigher 2 Fortin Scott Brandon 13 40 34 30 Engine 3 Officer Holloway Simon Jerry 13 40 33 60 o a lt m 5 S D a Engine 3 Chauffeur 13 40 32 90
29. hical View e Section 6 Using APPA Table View e Section 7 Log Files 1 3 Document Conventions Throughout this document text in Courier Bold reflects actual text on the APAA screen usually on a button or title bar Red text and arrows are used for labeling purposes and do not appear on the actual APAA screen Text for Emergency Alert buttons Companies table and Company are configurable through the APAA Configuration Utility The terms Emergency Alert Mayday Companies and Company are used 1n this document Users can use either the touch screen or the touch pad mouse on the keyboard to interact with the APAA The terms select and click are used throughout this document to indicate touching the touch screen or clicking with the touch pad mouse 2 MAYDAYS For the purposes of APAA there are two types of Maydays e Manual Mayday section 2 1 e Verbal Mayday section 2 2 To notify of a Mayday message being received APAA emits an audible alarm and the title bars buttons and other APAA screen elements flash red The member s box in the Unit Radio Data area and the row in the Radio Status table row are highlighted in red section 5 5 1 and 6 1 1 The Mayday also appears highlighted red in the Alerts table section 6 2 If available and configured the Mayday information may be sent to a printer to create a hard copy record 2 1 Manual Mayday A manual Mayday occurs when a member pushes the radio Mayday Em
30. ing the order of the assignments within the pull down list Units with the default Unassigned classification will be shown to the right 5 4 Roster Buttons The Roster icon sj displays ride list data 1f available within the accountability system For example SDI s EasyStaff application is bundled with APAA to provide departments with the capability to create on line ride lists tour rosters that can be downloaded to APAA In this way the Incident Commander sees the names of members on the fireground The Roster can be refreshed to display the most current data by selecting the Refresh Roster button see Figure 5 5 SOOO e Relieved Clear Engine 3 05 Mar 2015 9X Assignment Radio Full Name Officer 601 Holloway Simon Jerry Engine 1 F Chauffuer 6 Gray Edwin Donald Usan 00 00 00 dl aned 8 Fortin Scott Brandon Figure 5 5 Roster 5 5 Member Dialog Boxes Selecting a member from the Unit Radio Data box launches the Member dialog box The Member dialog box as shown in Figure 5 6 and Figure 5 7 includes the following buttons e Mayday Resolve Click this button to assign a Mayday to the selected member or resolves a Mayday section 5 5 1 e Account Unaccount Only available viewable when system is in PAR Rollcall or Evacuation mode Figure 5 6 Click this button to account unaccount for the selected member section 5 5 2 The Account button is only displayed when the selected member is unaccounted for a
31. nc TX Transmit Transmission NOTES Motorola and APX are trademarks or registered trademarks of Motorola Trademark Holdings LLC EasyStaff is a registered trademark of Systems Definition Inc RECORD OF CHANGES RELEASE DATE TITLE OR BRIEF DESCRIPTION ENTERED BY 1 June 2013 15 June 2013 29 August 2013 9 October 2013 4 February 2014 8 May 2015 Initial Release Revision Release Revision Release Revision Release Revision Release Revision Release 1 INTRODUCTION This document provides user instruction and guidance to operate the APX Personnel Accountability Application APAA 1 1 APX Personnel Accountability Application Overview APAA assists incident commanders with personnel accountability and emergency alerting capabilities through the use of Motorola Solutions Inc MSI APX portable subscriber radios 1n conjunction with aggregated department radio identification and personnel data APAA provides accountability and emergency alerting capabilities when used with properly configured APX radios Figure 1 1 shows the APAA user interface Table 1 1 summarizes supported features APAA runs on in vehicle mobile terminals e g Toughbook Personal Computer or in transportable units for conditions reguiring remote application capability Major functions include e Capturing displaying and storing emergency alert transmissions received from portable APX radios e Immediately identifying subscriber radio Push To Talk
32. nd vice versa Note that when not in a PAR Rollcall or Evacuation mode the Account Unaccount button 1s unavailable e Poll Radio Click this button to manually poll for a radio section 5 5 3 e Cancel Click this button to close the Member dialog box without making changes 5 3 E M 00 01 24 SDI fies Engine 1 i Engine 3 Ladder 2 r A 00 00 00 De 00 00 00 ae unassigned 7 00 00 00 Radio Assignment Engine 1 Officer Name Cole Ricardo Mathew Ballery Life 90 Alert s Mayday Account Porat Cancel Figure 5 6 Member Dialog box During Evacuation or PAR Rollcall a 1 Engine 3 Ladder 2 Unassigned _ 00 00 00 A ee 00 00 quo ee presne T 00 00 00 DA Chauttour per City Goodman Francisco Pemi I Tactical 4 NA Tactical Radio Assignment Engine Chauffeur Name Acker Leonardo Carlos Battery Life 40 Alert s Figure 5 7 Member Dialog box When Not in Evacuation or PAF Rollcall 5 4 5 5 1 Mayday Resolve Button To manually assign a Mayday click the Member box The Member dialog box 1s displayed If the selection 1s incorrect click the Cancel button to close the dialog box without assigning a Mayday If the selection 1s correct click the Mayday button see Figure 5 8 gt gt WE AI SDI estos Yn WM 2 View Relieved Clear Tactical 1 1 Rollcall Active Accounted For 12 12 Last Tx Engine 1 Officer Engine 3 Engine 1 2 unassigned oc UN Z
33. ng Transmission Started 690 Engine 1 Firefighter 2 10 03 44 AM Incoming Transmission Ended 2002 Ladder 1 Firefighter 1 10 03 47 AM Incoming Transmission Started 660 Engine 1 Chaueffuer 10 03 49 AM Incoming Transmission Ended 2002 Ladder i Firefighter 1 1n n2 E1 AM Tarsminr Mrancemi neninn Ctartnd GOD Dnrina 1 Dirnatfirhirnar 1 Figure 7 2 Current and Previous Log Files Click the Refresh Current button to view log data created since the initial log selection or last refresh Click the X in the top right corner of the window to close the Log Viewer 7 2 Log Files APAA log files are stored in the logs folder located within the APAA folder on the PC Log files are labeled by date time and type e g incident diagnostic evac or rollcall as shown in Figure 7 3 To view the logs open the Logs folder and right click the desired log file Select Open With and select WordPad 7 2 2015 3 26 16 20_diagnostic 2015 3 26 16 20 incident 2015 3 26 16 44_diagnostic 2015 3 26 16 44 incident 2015 3 26 17 21_diagnostic 2015 3 26 17 21 incident UI5 3 Zb 19 10 diaanc 2015 3 26 19 14 diagnostic 2015 3 26 19 14 incident 2015 3 26 19 17 1_evac 2015 3 27 15 28_diagnostic 2015 3 27 15 28 incident 2015 3 27 15 29 1_evac 2015 3 27 15 31_2_rollcall 2015 3 27 15 38_3_rollcall 2015 3 31 11 32_diagnostic 2015 3 31 11 32_incident 2015 4 15 14 14 diagnostic 2015 4 15 14 14 incident 2015 4 15 14 15_diagnostic 2015
34. ngine 3 Engine 43 Figure 6 16 Companies Table Detail 6 3 1 Company Roster To view a company s roster information select its table row from the Companies table A dialog box labeled with the Company name appears as shown in Figure 6 17 The Company Roster displays a table with one row for each member of the company Columns list the following member information e Assignment Member s unit and position e Radio Radio ID e Full Name Member s name 6 8 A I Y E 01 59 20 Channels View Relleved A Clear Ladder 2 06 Mar 2015 9X Full Name Alvarez Scott Billy Radio Status Companies Goodman Francisco Paul Name Fortin Sca Land Anta Geniry Ke Hol 4 Radio Assignment Bible Jarred Roy Engine 3 Firefigher 2 Engine 1 Land Anton Mathew Ladder 2 Firefighter 2 Ladder 2 Engine 3 Firefighter Engine 3 Bible Jarr Engine 1 Officer Ladder 2 Firefighter Engine 3 Officer Engine 1 Chauffuer Ladder 2 Chauffuer Engine 1 Firefighter Refresh Roster Cancel Figure 6 17 Company Roster To download the most recent ride list information for a company click the Refresh Roster button The button becomes grayed out and reads Attempting Roster Update as shown in Figure 6 18 while APAA attempts to update the company s ride list Ladder 2 06 Mar 2015 9X Full Name Alvarez Scott Billy
35. position e Name Member s name e Transmit Time Time of most recent transmission e Battery Percentage of radio battery available e Status Identifies any known alerts for a member using the following icons o Mayday Yellow triangle with exclamation point notifies the user that the associated radio has an active Emergency Alert as shown in Figure 6 3 Figure 6 3 Mayday o Unpollable Radio with question mark notifies the user that the associated radio was not reached through polling within the predetermined time interval see the APAA Installation and Configuration Guide as shown in Figure 6 4 Figure 6 4 Unpollable 6 2 o Channel Left CHAN LEFT text notifies the user that the associated radio has left the channel currently selected by the RF modem as shown in Figure 6 5 Figure 6 5 Channel Left o Radio Off RADIO OFF text notifies the user that the associated radio is off as shown in Figure 6 0 Figure 6 6 Radio Off Please note that radios in orange are minor alerts e g low battery radio off etc radios in red are major alerts e g Mayday and radios in yellow are resolved major alerts e g resolved Emergency Alerts 6 1 1 Mayday Transmission Highlighting in Radio Status Table The Radio Status table displays active Emergency Alerts highlighted red as shown in Figure 6 7 Emergency Alerts remain highlighted red until they are resolved Radio Status Radio Assignment Name Tran
36. r 24 HO Rolicall Active Accounted For 12 12 Last Tx Ladder 2 Officer Engine 1 Engine 3 Ladder 2 Dis Unassigned 00 00 00 ia e J y z m He Unassigned j 00 00 00 Y 00 00 00 OAS unassigned Radio Assignment Engine 3 Chaulleur In Engine J Chiu eur Name Gray Edwin Donald Ballary Lie 100 Poll Salus Polling Nert s a Mayday Sc Unaccount ay Poll Radio RRD co Cancel Figure 5 17 Polling In Progress The Poll Status changes to Failed and the Radio Unpollable Icon displays if the radio is not detected as shown in Figure 5 18 i eee View Relieved mn Engine 1 Engine 3 Ladder 2 00 00 00 JS 00 00 00 JS 00 00 00 JS ent Engine 3 Chauffeur Name Gray Edwin Donald Battery Life 100 Poll Status Failed RADIO UNPOLLABLE__ Alert s ICON IS 4 DISPLAYED gt WHEN RADIO Unpollable POLL FAILS Figure 5 18 Radio Unpollable To enable the manual polling and the Poll Radio button see the APAA Installation and Configuration Guide 5 10 6 USING APAA TABLE VIEW This section provides instructions to use APAA in Table View Figure 6 1 highlights the following components of the APAA Table View screen e Radio Status Table section 6 1 e Alerts Table section 6 2 e Companies Table section 6 3 SOA chamei Wima Rebel Radio Status Radio 4534 rmeni Hame Tramen lime Battery Sabi RADIO
37. radio PTT button to acknowledge their presence back to the Incident Commander see Figure 4 17 In the Graphical view APAA tracks the received PTT acknowledgements identifying members who have acknowledged and members who have not acknowledged The Rollcall dialog box displays units radios and personnel at the incident Accounted for radios are displayed in green unaccounted for radios are displayed in yellow and radios that have sent a Mayday are displayed in red Engine 1 GM Engine 3 aaa Ladder 2 e 00 00 00 Bie 00 00 00 DA unaesigned 00 00 00 Da BOET m CELL Figure 4 17 Active Rollcall Collapsed View The default PAR Rollcall view shows the units in collapsed view The units can be expanded to see additional member data by clicking the Expand A11 button See Figure 4 18 R MI 2 00 04 02 SD Relieved Collapse All Engine 3 Ladder 2 00 00 00 DE 00 00 00 E Figure 4 18 Expanded View PAR Rollcall Showing 12 of 12 Members Accounted For To terminate PAR Rollcall activities click the End Rollcall button and select End Rollcall in the dialog box see Figure 4 19 K EETA SDI alelo Es 24 Collapse All Ladder 2 HP AD Are you sure you wish to end the current Rollcall End Rollcall Cancel Figure 4 19 End Rollcall Button Click Cancel to close the dialog box without ending the PAR Rollcall Please note that an evacuation cannot be conducted during an active PAR Rollcall After a PAR Rollcall is star
38. s box the incident timer the megaphone button and a notification of the radio that transmitted last Last Tx FUNCTION I INCIDENT RF MODEM TIMER STATUS WE sme SDI Nara Relieved Collapse All MEGAPHONE BUTTON RADIO THAT LAST TRANSMITTED Figure 4 2 Upper Main Screen 4 1 Function Buttons The following function buttons are described in more detail in the referenced sections e Channels section 4 1 1 e View section 4 1 2 4 1 e Relieved section 4 1 3 e Clear section 4 1 4 4 1 1 Channels Button APAA supports the use of one channel at a time and permits selection of any available configured Department channel To designate the radio channel being monitored by APAA click the Channels button to launch the Select Your Channel dialog box Figure 4 3 Channels View Relleved gt Select Your Channel Engine 1 ta assigned 00 00 Officer Warner Carroll Fred lar Goodman Francisco Paul 40 04 34 Tactical 1 0 0 10 04 48 Tactical 1 Land Anton Mathew 10 04 49 Tactical 1 Figure 4 3 Select Your Channel In the Select Your Channel dialog box click the button for the desired channel then click Select to connect to the new channel Click Cancel to close the dialog box without making any changes Please note that during the brief channel reconnect period APAA will not monitor radio transmissions 4 1 2 View Button Clicking the View button displays the icons for th
39. smit Time Battery Status Engine 3 Firefigher 2 Fortin Scott Brandon 10 41 21 390 Goodman Francisco Pat 10 41 19 100 Gentry Kelley Jesse 10 41 17 A Engine 3 Officer Holloway Simon Jerry Figure 6 7 Mayday Transmission Highlighting in Radio Status Table Ladder 2 Chauffuer Engine 3 Firefighter 6 1 2 Assign and Resolve Mayday from Radio Status Table To assign a Mayday select the member s row from the Radio Status table then click the Mayday button in the resulting dialog box Click Cancel button to close the dialog box without assigning an Emergency Alert see Figure 6 8 6 3 00 14 37 SD Radio Assignment Engine 3 Firefigher 2 Engine 3 Chauffeur Engine 1 Chauffeur Ladder 2 Firefighter Ladder 2 Firefighter 2 Engine 3 Firefighter Engine 1 Firefighter 2 Engine 1 Officer Ladder 2 Chauffeur Engine 1 Firefighter Engine 3 Officer Ladder 2 Officer Name Transmit Time Battery Status Forin Scott Brandon 13 33 45 50 Engine Firefighter2 a Radio Assignment Engine 1 Firefighter 2 Name Vargas David Cory Battery Life 30 Poll Status Alert s Figure 6 8 Assign Mayday from Radio Status Table To resolve a Mayday click the Resolve button see Figure 6 9 END Radio Status Radio Assignment Engine 1 Chauffeur Ladder 2 Firefighter 2 Engine 3 Chauffeur Engine 3 Officer Engine 1 Firefighter Ladder 2 Chauffeur Ladder 2 Firefighter Engine 3 Firefighter Engine 1 Offic
40. sos loci a a aa 4 2 Figure 4 4 Graphical View Received Mayday Messag6e rrrY YY YYY YY YY EE EE ELE ELE ELE E EEDD LLED EEDD EEDD DDED DDED DD DD DDE EEDD 4 3 Figure Table View Received Mayday Messe O I dU aU A 4 3 Fiounc 4 6 Relieve Companies Dialog Box ce a id O SA dd et Y SD ADAR 4 4 Figure 4 7 Relieve Companies Dialog Box Showing a Company That Has Been Relieved e een 4 4 His arc 4 5 Clear Dan On one do 4 5 Figure 4 9 Incident Timer Reset and All Data Cleared Graphical View occcccccccnnncncconononnnnnonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnos 4 6 Pisure 4 10 Reset Incident Fiumet use nu ada 4 6 Figure 4 11 Evacuation PAR Rollcall Buttons iii iii 4 7 Figure 4212 Begim E vaecuatLIOll ee i a dees eat GT YU dU GUY UU GU CYF 4 7 Figure 4 13 Viewing Ongoing Evacuation StatUS uur rrr CL CCC EE E ELE E ELE E ELE E ELE E ELE E ELE E ELE E LLED LEE E EEDD DDED EEDD LEDD FEDD FED 4 8 Figure 4 14 Manually View Status of Individual Member oocccccnnnnnnnnnnononnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnononnnnnnnnnnncnnnos 4 9 Figore 4 13 End EvacuatIolb ic 4 9 Freire 4106 Be cin ROL Call ue a Cae wn Ad Y Ui GL DC dd LD o CU Gn 4 10 Fi re 4 17 Acuve Rollcall Collapsed View mue doi 4 11 Figure 4 18 Expanded View PAR Rollcall Showing 12 of 12 Members Accounted FoF ococcccncncnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnss 4 11 Eistre 4419 End ROIK all Bto cei a A dd GA Od NU 4 12 Pi urc Sel APAA FAD AM WG FA A FO 5 1
41. ted the Evacuate button cannot be clicked until the Rollcall dialog box 1s closed Please note also that automatic radio polling 1s halted during PAR Rollcall 4 5 Last Tx The Last Tx status line to the right of the Megaphone button displays the name of the radio that was last keyed and detected by the RF modem 5 USING APAA GRAPHICAL VIEW As explained in section 4 1 2 to access the Graphical View in APAA click on the View function button then click Graphical 5 1 Overview The Graphical View displays information in a visual manner generally organized by unit see Figure 5 1 The main functions and capabilities of this view are e Collapse All Expand A11 Units and Collapse Expand Unit Buttons section 5 2 e Unit Assignments Pull Downs section 5 3 e Roster Buttons section 5 4 e Member Boxes section 5 5 COLLAPSE ALL me _ EXPAND ALL SENSE Clear COLLAPSE EXPAND Engine 3 MM Ladder 2 v ROSTER ASSIGNMENTS CS 00 00 00 S Jl 00 00 00 Da Figure 5 1 APAA Graphical View 5 2 Collapse All Expand All Units and Collapse Expand Unit Buttons The default view shows all units expanded to include applicable details Selecting Collapse A11 will collapse the view for all units Figure 5 2 Selecting Expand A11 shows all units Relieved Engine 1 Engine 3 Ladder 2 unassigned 00 00 00 DA Unassigned 00 00 00 DAl gt Unassigned 00 00 00 HC 5a EEEN Figure 5 2 Collapsed Units
42. ver unlike the EVAC command message there 1s no PAR Rollcall command sent out by APAA over the mobile radio The Incident Commander must initiate the PAR check or Rollcall via voice The PAR button previously shown in Figure 4 11 allows APAA users to initiate a PAR check or Rollcall during which members acknowledge by keying their portable radios Clicking the PAR Rollcall button launches the Rollcall dialog box as shown in Figure 4 16 m E gt Pe a arab Channels View Relieved Collapse All fEngine3 _____ By nl ledter AGA O OC Officer Warner Carroll Fred 10 06 31 Tactical 1 Begin Rollcall Cancel Firefighter Sutton Michael Homer 10 06 32 Tactical 4 10 06 29 Tactical 1 10 06 27 Tactical 1 10 06 35 Tactical 10 06 36 Tactical 4 10 06 36 Tactical 1 Figure 4 16 Begin Rollcall Are you sure you wish to initiate Rollcall APAA PAR Rollcall activities are performed as summarized below l The Incident Commander clicks the Begin Rollcall button see Figure 4 16 to display the APAA PAR Rollcall dialog box 2 The Incident Commander reguests a PAR check or Rollcall via voice over the radio system to 3 on scene members Typically the Incident Commander states the purpose e g conducting a PAR check of some or all units to determine a member head count and member status It 1s useful for the Incident Commander to remind members to respond by selecting the radio PTT key Members then click the
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