Internet of Things Data Foundations for First Responders Fire Service FY2020

For the past three years, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Public Safety Communication Research Group (PSCR), in research sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate, has been studying IoT devices for first responders to determine how these devices can be utilized to meet the needs of the first responder in the field. This document reports on interviews conducted with fire safety professionals, in which their current informational and technological requirements were discussed. It also presents a potential model of the informational requirements as independent software objects to demonstrate how a baseline consistency in IoT product development could hypothetically be achieved