Fire/EMS Visualization Platform

How often do you get to write code that can help save lives?   For this project, your team will work with Levrum Data Technologies, an industry leader in emergency services planning solutions.   In a recent survey of senior fire/EMS leaders, nearly 90% of respondents identified access to the right data at the right time from disparate data sources as the biggest problem they face.    Levrum is pioneering a simple, open architecture that will solve this problem, ranging from providing real-time hazard information for responding units, to presenting visual strategic insights for senior leadership planning the futures of their organizations.   This approach has recently received positive attention from the U.S. Fire Administration subgroup chartered with developing the National Emergency Response Information System (NERIS).   This project will build upon work by Levrum and prior Capstone teams to deliver a compelling prototype that integrates NERIS data with other existing data sources in an attractive visual style.    

This work will be a worthy challenge for your outstanding design, implementation, test and collaboration skills! For the customers we serve, the result will be clear visual information at the right time to make effective decisions.   For you, the result will be tangible, practical experience in widely adopted, modern tools, developing software platform components that may help save lives.

 

Objectives


  1. Thorough understanding of existing architecture and ability to propose and implement useful changes
  2. Intermediate-level mastery of server environment and tools (ASP.Net)
  3. Robust implementation of an attractive, compelling prototype:
    1. Integration of the newly developed NERIS API into the Levrum data access framework   (ASP..Net, C#, REST)
    2. Enhancement of visual plugins for mapping, charting and other data visualization for an attractive, consistent visual style (CSS?, Javascript, React)
    3. Architectural improvements in the framework operational model and communication protocols to support the overall objective (JSON, object modeling)
    4. STRETCH GOAL:  roadmap for extension of the framework model to the Python environment  (Python, especially reflection features)
  4. Documentation and handoff packages to enable future Levrum and Capstone teams to pick up the work
  5. An excellent educational experience and career reference source

Motivations


This project will give you the experience of working in a small engineering team, under the guidance of experienced engineers in this field (including OSU Capstone veterans!), with input from long-term veterans of the fire and emergency medical services. 

We run projects that are challenging and rewarding, FUN, and excellent resume-builders when well done.  We have a long track record of highly ranked projects, successful job placements and even hiring some of our own Capstone team members.    But most important, in this project, you have the opportunity to develop software that will provide critical, timely information to command staff making strategic decisions that will affect the lives of both ordinary people and emergency responders for years to come.

Special Note: RELATIONSHIP OF YOUR WORK TO OUR WORK

If you elect to participate in this project, you will be working with a functioning team that is developing and selling software tools for the real world, specifically fire and emergency medical services.   The problems you will be working on are interesting, useful and may eventually be converted into commercial offerings, or components thereof.  However, your work is subject to research risk (i.e., there is a possibility that you may do great work, only to learn that an approach we are trying out is not feasible) and other factors that may prevent commercialization.   The primary intent of your participation in the project is to give you a realistic, challenging, rewarding learning experience that prepares you for real world situations and provides good reference material for future employment opportunities, while letting us explore interesting development options that are not business-critical and enjoy the experience of mentoring you.

Since you will be exposed to some of our proprietary technical methods and business processes, and more particularly because you are likely to work with some of our customers' confidential data, occasionally including information that may be strictly protected by laws such as HIPAA, we require you to sign a reciprocal nondisclosure agreement prior to beginning work on this project.   This agreement is specifically tailored to allow you to discuss and present your work on this project in your academic environment and to potential employers, so long as such disclosures could not reasonably be anticipated to cause harm to us, our customers or the public.    This requirement is an ironclad necessity of our contractual obligations to our customers and cannot be waived.

We are usually able to provide significant mentorship in the relevant technologies (C#/ASP.Net and possibly JS/React in this case).  Unfortunately, during this term, the demands of other projects may make us less available in this area than usual.  You should plan on doing a fair amount of autonomous learning and group problem solving in this project.

Qualifications


Minimum Qualifications:
  • Excellent team play
  • Good written and oral communication skills
  • Ability to understand, conceive and develop moderately complex software systems
  • Strong object-oriented design skills
  • Strong diagnostic skills
  • Mastery of at least one object-oriented language
  • Strong familiarity with Web server-side development in a managed environment
  • Ability and eagerness to learn new tools, environments and concepts quickly as needed to implement complex systems
  • Did we mention excellent team play?

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Familiarity with Agile project management
  • Prior experience with React and javascript
  • Prior experience in ASP.Net


Details


Project Partner:

Carl Niedner

NDA/IPA:

NDA Required

Number Groups:

1

Project Status:

Rejected

Website:
https://www.levrum.com
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