Dereck Orr, head of Public Safety Communications Research at NIST, trying out a virtual incident response dashboard at the CommanDING Tech Challenge event.
Credit: NIST
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced the winners of the final phase of the Command Dashboard Integrating Next-Gen Technology (CommanDING Tech) Challenge, a four-phase competition for designing next-generation incident command dashboards for first responders.
The winners were announced following the final phase of the competition, which was held at the FedEx Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis from March 7 through 9, 2023. At that event, contestants presented their designs and demonstrated their dashboard capabilities during simulated live scenarios.
Many incident command dashboards are limited by the quality of their user interfaces and an inability to access certain types of data. The CommanDING Tech Challenge aimed to incentivize the creation of new dashboards with improved user interface/user experience (UI/UX) designs that incorporate video, sensor and map data, as well as real-time indoor tracking and video analytics, using mobile and web-based solutions.
“The CommanDING Tech challenge put prototypes of next generation incident command dashboards into the hands of first responders,” said Scott Ledgerwood, the UI/UX portfolio lead for NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research Division. “The winning dashboards allowed incident commanders to take action and maintain situational awareness when responding to complex incidents. It’s exciting to see how this research can impact the public safety mission, and we look forward to watching these teams move forward in the marketplace.”
Winning submissions were judged on UI/UX design, innovation, use of technology, commercial viability, and effecti ..
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