A111Ob T1T257 NISTIR 7314 Building Tactical Information System for Public Safety Officials Intelligent Building Response (iBR) David G. Holmberg William D. Davis Stephen Treado J. Kent A. Reed Nisr QC National Institute of Standards and Technology too Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce UsSC, • 0KOO (0 NISTIR 7314 Building Tactical Information System for Public Safety Officials Intelligent Building Response (iBR) David G. Holmberg Stephen Treado J. Kent A. Reed Building Environment Division William D. Davis Eire Re$<urch division U.S DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Institute of Standard and Technology Building and Fire Research Laboratory MD Gaithersburg, 20899-8600 January, 2006 v X DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE U.S. Carlos M. Gutierrez, Secretary TECHNOLOGY ADMINISTRATION Michelle O'Neill, Acting Under Secretaryfor Technology NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY William A. Jeffrey, Director Abstract The Building Tactical Information project begins the process ofdeveloping technology and standards to realize the vision ofmaking real-time building information accessible to emergency responders to enable safer and more efficient emergency response. This project addresses both the information needs ofthe fire, police and emergency medical services and the technology needed for moving building data out to emergency responders. A workshop was held to gather information on first responders’ building information needs, and presentation standards have been A examined based on emergency responder needs while enroute to an incident and on-scene. technology data path is proposed that will allow information collection and transport to the A emergency responder. security analysis addresses the security concerns ofthe information A transfer. demonstration ofthe technology, with a decision support system transmitting real-time building information to first responders, was held at NIST and forms the basis for a documentary video. 1 Summary Executive The vision for the Building Tactical Information project is to provide more and better information to emergency responders in order to make building incident response safer and more efficient. The challenge is to develop a standard method for collecting, moving and displaying information to those who need it, so that all important building information is available to emergency responders when they need it. The main goals ofthe project were to: (i) gather information about what information first responders need; (ii) develop a standard path for moving data from buildings to first responders; (iii) demonstrate the proposed technology with a video to document the demonstration; and (iv) address security concerns ofthe information transfer. For the first goal, a workshop was held in May 2004 and a report ofgathered information was published (Jones et al., 2005). A summary ofthis information (“Workshop White Paper”) is also included in Appendix A ofthis report. Those results have already been incorporated into proposed presentation standards, and also used by manufacturers ofsystems to display information to first responders. Section 2 ofthis report gives a briefsummary ofthe workshop. A method for collecting and moving data from a building to the public safety network has been developed, and this technology path is presented in this report. Section 3 discusses the building information server, decision support tools that process data, and also reviews work done on presenting data to first responders in an understandable format. That work on presentation has NEMA been submitted to (National Electrical Manufacturers Association) for consideration in their standards development process. A demonstration ofthe technology was held at NIST in February, 2005, and a documentary video ofthe demonstration was produced. It was recognized that first responders do not generally know what information is available from building control systems, and so an additional educational video has been produced. The demonstration is summarized in Section 3.4. The videos are available online and on CD. A security analysis is presented in Section 4, and in conjunction with the efforts ofthe US Department ofHomeland Security SAFECOM program is under continuing development as an architecture for a standard public safety network. Section 5 reviews relevant standards development work, and Section 6 presents overall conclusions. This work has been supported by the National Institute ofJustice (NIJ) via the Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) office and administered through the NIST Office ofLaw Enforcement Standards (OLES). n Table of Contents Abstract i Executive Summary ii Table ofContents iii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Intelligent Building Response 1 1.2 Background 2 1.3 Project Objectives 3 2 Workshop on Building Information for First Responders 5 3 Building Tactical Information System Components 7 3.1 Building Information Server 7 3.2 Decision Support Tools 9 3.2.1 Sensor Driven Fire Model (SDFM) 10 3.3 Information Presentation 10 3.3.1 Enroute and On-site information presentation 10 NEMA 3.3.2 proposal 11 3.4 System Demonstration 11 4 Information security 12 4.1 Introduction 12 4.2 Information security and building response 12 4.3 Building network and interface security issues 13 SAFECOM 4.4 Security in the Statement ofRequirements 14 4.5 Identification ofBuilding Information, Users, and Security Requirements 14 4.5.1 Classification ofData 14 4.5.2 User roles 15 4.5.3 Summary ofBuilding security 16 4.6 Threat assessment and security objectives 17 4.6.1 The System Target ofEvaluation (STOE) 18 4.6.2 Assumptions 18 4.6.3 Assets 19 4.6.4 Threats 19 4.6.5 Security Objectives 21 5 Standards Development 22 5.1 Interactions with the public safety community 22 5.2 Interactions with standards organizations 22 6 Conclusions 24 7 References 26 Appendix A Workshop White Paper 27 Appendix B NEMA proposal 34 Appendix C NIST Experimental Implementation Report 47 Appendix D Presentation to NFPA 1221 Committee 55 iii Introduction 1 Providing public safety officials, including emergency responders, with critical information from building automation systems can help them make better tactical decisions for a safer and more efficient response. Fundamental to accomplishing this is a standard means ofcollecting and transporting building information (and most importantly real-time system data) available in buildings out to the public safety officials that need it. This includes providing information to fire and police responders, emergency medical responders, emergency dispatch centers, city and state governments, national guard, criminal investigation units, and others who might need the A information at the time ofa building incident or afterwards. standard for collecting and moving data enables interoperability ofproducts made by different companies and can make the technology more available to public safety departments. There are two underlying visions that drive this work. First is creating a building knowledge database at the design phase ofa building that is then carried into the operation phase ofthe building life-cycle, with information about the building that is available to outside partners. Second is developing the means for emergency responders to access real-time building information from building systems in a useable format. — The foundation ofthis work is thus a combination ofthese two visions that there should be a standard means ofcollecting and transporting building information out to the emergency responders and public safety officials who need it. This report presents the efforts ofthe Building and Fire Research Labroatory (BFRL) to move a step closer to this reality. 1.1 Intelligent Building Response Today’s modem buildings function with multiple control systems programmed to run different building systems, such as heating ventilation air-conditioning (HVAC), lighting, access control (physical security), and life safety (fire). Network communications carry commands from controllers to actuators and switches, and a host ofsensors feed data back to controllers. Yet, for the most part, all this information is bottled up in the building even while it could provide tremendous situational awareness to those outside the building, telling them where a fire is, where smoke is, where occupants are, which devices are operating, which lights are on, or which doors are open. Why should first responders need to do a size up at the scene in order to find out what is happening inside? Real time information regarding building systems should be available while they are enroute to the scene. Why can’t a dispatcher understand the emergency inside the building from the start ofan incident, even before the apparatus is dispatched? Lacking now is a standard method ofmoving real-time building data out ofthe building into the hands of emergency responders. A modem building fire system has fire sensors in every room to report alarms when the smoke level or temperature reaches a set threshold. These same fire signals might be processed by a computer to identify growth and progress ofa fire. That information could be passed to HVAC firefighters before they arrive on scene. In addition to fire sensors, the system might provide temperature data. The lighting system could identify rooms with lights on where occupants could be located. The elevator system could report elevator location, as well as presence ofsmoke and/or high temperatures. And the access control system could identify forced entry as well as provide video feeds from cameras. 1 Today, most large commercial buildings, and many industrial and special-use buildings, have building automation systems (BAS) with digital control and each subsystem with a master controller. These systems could be tied together. And while many buildings, especially smaller ones, don't have sophisticated controls, the good news is that those with the greatest number of occupants are the ones with the greatest potential for supplying information about an incident to those responding to an incident. The current work addresses the challenge ofidentifying the building information an emergency responder might need and getting it to the people who need it in a format they can understand and use. There are a growing number ofsmart buildings with sensor data that would be useful to emergency responders, but there is as yet no standard way ofcollecting that data and presenting it to emergency responders. In order for this to work effectively, there must be an agreed-upon standard that allows: any building equipment manufacturer adhering to the standard to offer data to be collected; a standard building server that can collect that data and offer it up in a standard interface to the public safety network; standard messages for communicating the data; and standard interfaces for public safety end users to see the data. Building Network Public Safety Network * Others in network: dispatch, city, Sensor hospitals, FBI, Nat. Guard, border networks security,fire/criminal investigators Fire stations and BAS system Police vehicles controllers Dept. Building Information b Emergency Server responders iimiiHiiHijiiUp^^ Figure 1 Schematic ofsystem architecture showing data path from building sensors to sub-system controllers to building information server and then to public safety network where it is accessible by public safety officers. Background 1.2 The NIST Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) has been active in building communications and information research for many years. In the 1980s NIST helped spearhead the development ofwhat has become the leading building automation protocol, which allows different building control systems to communicate and share information. This standard protocol, called BACnet (Building Automation Control Networks, www.BACnet.ora). has been in use for 10 years and is rapidly expanding and being implemented all over the globe. NIST researchers have also been instrumental in addressing the life cycle ofbuilding information and how it can be stored, formatted, maintained, and re-used over time. Beginning in the 1980s, NIST has been active in the development ofinformation representation and exchange protocols for the building industry. This work has culminated in the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC), maintained by the 2