In large-scale disaster situations, local response units
often act together with international units. Most of the acting
organizations have their own structures for the coordination
of their operating units in the field. They need to collaborate
across technological systems, organizational borders as
well as language and cultural barriers.
With the help of IDIRA, borders and barriers in disaster response
can be overcome. The IDIRA system supports disaster
response coordination between organizations by providing
a set of guidelines and standard-based technical solutions for
interoperability and data sharing between different
systems. It enables a common, coherent decision-making
process of all acting parties in order to save human lives and
to minimize the total costs resulting from disastrous incidents.