Companies demonstrate integration of MASA Sword with MAP REVELATION® at Milipol: SGO’s booth (3A 143) and French Ministry of the Interior's booth (2B 092).
Paris, France, October 17, 2011 — At Milipol Paris 2011, the worldwide exhibition of internal State security (Paris Porte de Versailles, October 18-21, 2011), SûretéGlobale.Org, an international developer of predictive crime mapping and risk management solutions, and MASA Group, a leading provider of advanced software solutions using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies for modeling and simulation tools, are showcasing the world's first integration of geostatistical and predictive risk analysis technology with constructive simulation. The combination of MASA Sword with MAP REVELATION® allows the simulation of large-scale security-related exercises fed by realistic risk deployment data, thereby improving crisis management training efficiency, and drastically lowering training costs.
MAP REVELATION is a software-based tool allowing to optimize the management of all kind of risks, using geostatistical and predictive risk analysis. A high performance technology tool, MAP REVELATION is simple and easy to use. It allows users to process data out of geostatistical time series relating to a wide range of risks, and combine them with real time observations in order to generate acute geolocalized real time risk forecasts. With a new 3D-based highly-functional interface designed to improve the visual clarity of a situation, MAP REVELATION is ideally suited for use on a wide screen monitor in a command and control post, allowing users to inter-react in real time with a perfect ergonomy.
MAP REVELATION also allows users to manage risks across all sites while integrating remote sensors (such as alarms and video cameras) as needed. In case of a critical incident, MAP REVELATION manages emergency response teams in real time, based on pre-established scenarios. It raises necessary alarms and initiates the mobilization of emergency personnel. Whether the hazards are natural or man-made, spanning technological, public health or urban risks, MAP REVELATION is designed to meet the requirements of a wide range of security plans, and manages the situation according to pre-established plans. A true crisis management tool, MAP REVELATION ensures that the emergency committee is the cornerstone of all successful crisis resolutions.
MASA Sword is an aggregate-level constructive simulation software for emergency management and crisis preparedness training. Automated thanks to MASA Life Brain, an artificial intelligence middleware, MASA Sword is used to model doctrine-based behaviors. The simulation can be populated with automated and semi-automated entities - like ambulances, police units, first responders or large populations – that act and react realistically. Physical objects and events, especially natural and manmade disasters can also be simulated with MASA Sword, enlarging the spectrum of operations supported by this software. During distributed multi-user training, trainees can give operational high-level orders to a simulated chain of command. In return, virtual units will execute their missions and provide operational reports that can be used during post-action reviews to assess the effectiveness of the training sessions.
MASA Sword provides a new training capability for emergency management and all hazards preparedness, based on innovative simulation tools that allow instructors to easily recreate a large variety of extreme crisis situations. Coupled with MAP REVELATION, MASA Sword offers an unprecedented level of flexibility to the instructor throughout the training session to make the simulated crisis dynamic, realistic and interactive. This is a challenge that even very expensive ground exercises involving large numbers of field staff deployed could hardly meet nowadays.
"Currently in use by police departments in Paris, Lille, Lyon and Marseilles and by the DCPAF (the French Central Directorate of Border Police), MAP REVELATION is revolutionizing the way the Police is operating by allowing them to anticipate risks,” commented Christophe Courtois, CEO of SûretéGlobale.Org. “The results are conclusive: we have noticed a 20 to 30 percent reduction in damages, and twice as many arrests of offenders when MAP REVELATION is used to manage riots for instance."
“Training solutions and decision-support tools using simulation software improved and automated by Artificial Intelligence technologies are increasingly sought after by public safety organizations worldwide. The ultimate goal is to improve their preparedness and to reduce operational costs,” stated Juan-Pablo Torres, CEO of MASA Group. “Our technological partnership with SûretéGlobale.Org is an important milestone in the adoption of simulation tools like MASA Sword in the field of all hazards and emergency preparedness by crisis centers’ preventive training.”
About SécuritéGlobale.Org (SGO)
SûretéGlobale.Org (SGO) develops and sells tools and solutions for territorial risk management, statistical analysis, crisis prevention and evaluation, decision-support and crisis management training. From natural risks to technological, public health and urban emergencies, SûretéGlobale.Org works with your organization to put in place the necessary plans. SGO will carry out a risk analysis, help with the organization of services, establish procedures, train the participants and direct the exercises. Using this expertise, SûretéGlobale.Org has developed MAP REVELATION®, a statistical information and geographical risk forecast system. From initial analysis to real time situation management, MAP REVELATION gives command centers concrete tools to help the decision making process for a wide range of of crisis management situations, should it be at organized events (sports events) or unexpected events (riots, public health crisis). Every year, SGO's research center produces reference papers on these topics and develops high-level software applications. For more information please visit http://www.sureteglobale.org/
About MASA
MASA Group (“MASA”) is a global company focused on the development of Artificial Intelligence-based Modeling&Simulation (M&S) software for the Defense, Homeland Security, Emergency Management, Serious Games and Games Development markets. A trusted developer of cutting-edge AI technology for over fifteen years, MASA has founded its success on products that combine scalability, adaptability and low cost of ownership, with a strong standards-driven approach to technology.
The MASA product range, including MASA SWORD and MASA LIFE is uniquely designed to simplify and optimize the implementation of Artificial Intelligence capabilities for automating and driving simulated behaviors. Such capabilities allow developers and end-users in various sectors to focus their efforts on enabling a series of cost-efficient and highly realistic applications – such as command staff training, crisis management preparedness, exercise preparation, after-action review, doctrine&equipment analysis, and corporate training.
MASA products are already in use by leading organizations worldwide, including the French Army, other major armies around the world, Amper Programas, CAE, Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, Saab, SGO, Thales and Cliffhanger Productions.
For more information, please visit http://www.masagroup.net/
Media Contact
SûretéGlobale.Org (SGO): Christophe Courtois, CEO, +33 (0) 6 83 01 01 80,
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MASA Group: Eric Giaretto, +33 (0) 6 80 26 42 40,
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