The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) utilizes Safe Environment Engineering’s systems for acquiring live sensor readings from a wide variety of different environmental monitoring instruments. Data is collected in the instrument’s native format than converted into the internationally recognized OASIS standard named the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) where it is published to the EPA.
The EPA has developed the VIPER (Virtual Information Platform for Emergency Response) software suite consisting of Survey Controller/Manager and Deployment Manager. Survey Controller/Manager servers as data collection tool and Deployment Manager visualizes the collection of instrumentation readings within a map centric tool.
Survey Controller interfaces with the SEE desktop meter applications through a user interface that configures the application for a specific instrument. In turn the Meter Application provides back to Survey Controller a CAP standardized instrument reading which it then posts to its servers.
If information is already known about an instrument and its location a mobile or desktop meter application can post directly to the VIPER servers through a process called Survey Manager. Video