The Emergency Command System from VectorCommand is the world's leading family of integrated emergency command, control, training, exercising and assessment products and services, incorporating a wide variety of advanced virtual reality, artificial intelligence, communications, display, GIS and database technologies.

VectorCommand's  Command Support System is the world's first interoperable, distributed command and control system for managing single and multi-agency emergency incidents. Using a combination of key technologies - GIS mapping, live and still imagery, asset management systems, instant messaging, database access, electronic whiteboards and incident recording - the Command Support System allows incident commanders at all levels of an incident or multiple incidents to contribute to and access a Common Operational Picture. All controls are touch-screen and icon-based for easy use by non-technical operators.

Customers for the Command Support System include the London Fire Brigade, South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service, UK Police National CBRN  Centre, South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service and Local Resilience Forum and the Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service.

Emergency Command System emergency management training and command products and services are provided in both off-the-shelf and customised versions, to match the specific requirements of individual customers and address some of the key issues faced by fire, police, search and rescue, emergency management and  civil resilience agencies around the world..

The image (above right) shows Royal Berkshire Fire & Rescue Service's newly commissioned Incident Command Units, both of which have the Command Support System onboard. Click here to read the full story.

Clients include the  London Fire Brigade (London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority), South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service, South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service, the majority of UK fire and rescue services, the Community Mechanism for Civil Protection/ Environment Directorate General of the European Commission, Australian and New Zealand fire and rescue services, Qatar Petroleum, the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency and the multi-agency UK Police National CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) Training Centre.