Connect and harmonise
emergency services data
A wealth of data sits in different Commonwealth agencies which can be connected, enriched, harmonised, integrated, and spatially enabled at scale so your stakeholders have a single national view of the landscape.
STO
SURROUND Technology Offering
The STO is a proven industrial-strength platform that enables all knowledge sources to be connected and queried textually and/or visually. The STO combines semantic data enrichment and machine learning and applies open standards to help emergency management and response organisations make sense of complex data at scale.
SURROUND'S Emergency Management
OFFERINGS
SOP
Surround
Ontology Platform
SOP links and manages knowledge assets across a data fabric via connected knowledge graphs. It links, harmonises and makes sense of complex data at scale. Powered by semantic reasoning & augmented intelligence, SOP expands your view across borders and enables organisations to locate, connect, query, visualise & search in real time.
State and Federal Government Organisations
Data and Analytics Executives and Specialists
Emergency Services and Management Organisations
A wealth of data sits in different Government agencies that can be connected, enriched, harmonised, integrated, and spatially enabled at scale to support a national view of the emergency services landscape.
How SURROUND brings resilience to Emergency Management
The SURROUND Technology Offering (STO) enables explainable decision making through enriched data management. We do this by empowering agencies to locate, connect, harmonise, visualise, and search over connected data. We make the complex simple, consumable, and scalable.
YOUR ‘BEST-OF-BREED’ CONNECTED DATA SOLUTION:
SURROUND makes sense of the overwhelming volume, variety, velocity, and complexity of data. SURROUND discovers, connects, and reasons about organisational knowledge assets to provide a sense-making evidence base for informed and contextually-aware strategic and operational decisions. By linking and mapping disconnected information, we connect organisational silos and enable intelligent data governance.
Highly effective teams are most productive when all members are aligned. Unfortunately, miscommunication frequently occurs when people, processes and systems are disconnected. SURROUND provides the ability to harmonise concepts such that differences in meaning and context can be understood by all parties and systems, thus enabling effective communication to occur over time and across different locations.
SURROUND’s Comparable Explainable Reasoning (CXR) provides the ability to use different types of reasoning styles which can be cross-compared to optimise the results produced. CXR uses contextual metadata and data either from SOP, or across the data fabric, to provide knowledge insights. In addition, CXR enables the reshaping of metadata and data within SOP. Ensembles of algorithms are employed to analyse and parse information in these components, which can also be employed to parse and transform semantic information from SOP to meet a particular information consumption requirement.
What if every member of your team and supporting organisations had access to critical data at the right time?
- assess risks using live data,
- analyse in real time,
- data driven plans, responses, warnings and updates
SURROUND gives you and your stakeholders a shared jurisdictional view and toolset for the digital landscape.
How SURROUND helps further the ‘Preparing Australia’ vision
The SURROUND Technology Offering (STO) enables explainable decision making through enriched data management. We do this by empowering agencies to locate, connect, harmonise, visualise, and search over connected data. We make the complex simple, consumable, and scalable.
YOUR ‘BEST-OF-BREED’ RESILIENT DATA SOLUTION:
The Discrete Global Grid System (DGGS) Converter (DGGSC) provides a canonical view of geospatial data as a set of region points. The DGGSC transforms latitude and longitude into two-dimensional region points. It also converts latitude, longitude, and elevation into three-dimensional region points. When combined with the dimension of time in the SOP, the result enables the ability to reason over the rate of change, over space and time. This capability is very useful in predicting future scenarios such as the impacts of natural disasters, and concepts such as long-term unemployed people or community health.
This technique is used to inform the next best decision(s). Working within a spectrum, you can formulate testable scenarios and apply them to both evidence obtained in the past, and to future (projected) evidence. You can then evaluate the tradeoff for each scenario in order to make an optimal decision.
Provenance is at the heart of SURROUND’s Platform. This ‘chain of trust’ delivers traceability and accountability for your critical information and functions:
- Navigation across information, including dependencies, lineage, and impact.
- Improved discovery of knowledge across domains, including visualisation for the discovery process and its results.
- Capture of the detail of any constraint violations associated with the information sourced.
Emergency Services First Responders put their lives on the line to answer Australia’s call. Siloed, disconnected and inconsistent data greatly increases risks to Emergency Services, Organisations and First Responders. When data is shared across jurisdictions, agencies and the front line teams that respond, Australia is more prepared & resilient.
How SURROUND helps Emergency Services Management
The SURROUND Technology Offering (STO) enables explainable decision making through enriched data management. We do this by empowering agencies to locate, connect, harmonise, visualise, and search over connected data. We make the complex simple, consumable, and scalable.
YOUR ‘BEST-OF-BREED’ SHARED DATA SOLUTION:
Build, manage and collaborate on controlled vocabularies
Enriched inputs such as warnings with spatially enabled data driven information and triggers from planning
Timely, tailored and relevant data to all consumers at all levels
Locate, connect, visualise, search over connected data
Data driven user engagement interface using real time and existing data
Standardised messaging and information sharing with other departments and data consumers
Contextual scenario modelling connected to knowledge, vocabulary curation and harmonisation
Real time and contextual data linked with planning, messaging and warnings
“Smart search” over organisational knowledge
About Us
SURROUND’s vision is to solve the world’s most complex problems ethically to achieve real-world outcomes for people and society. Our mission is to achieve this through improved sense-making and decisions, by linking knowledge across operations, policy, planning and information holdings.
The SURROUND Technology Offering delivers this by enabling semantic analysis using knowledge graphs, augmented intelligence and machine learning.
Our team contains globally and locally recognised expertise to contribute for private and public sector clients. We are represented on numerous ISO, W3C and Geospatial Standards Committees.
Case Study
The Australian Climate Service (ACS) was set up in 2021 by the Australian Government as part of its response to the 2019 Bushfires and the Royal Commission that followed.
One of the ACS partners, Geoscience Australia, brought in SURROUND to deliver crucial data solutions needed for the ACS to become operational by 1 July 2021.
SURROUND helped Geoscience Australia and the ACS respond to the 2020 Royal Commission by delivering crucial data solutions and mission-critical services.
