Deccan International - Fire/EMS ADAM: Overview

Fire/EMS ADAM: Overview

Fire/EMS ADAM (Apparatus Deployment Analysis Module), Deccan’s flagship product, is a strategic planning tool for Fire Chiefs and Fire/EMS Managers. ADAM helps decision-makers to assess the many challenges they face-- budget cuts, station relocation or consolidation, disaster planning, and Homeland Security directives and measures.

Working in tandem with CAD Analyst, informed administrators using ADAM can ask “What if?” questions regarding proposed changes derived from their CAD data. With ADAM, administrators can simulate various deployment scenarios which effectively test and evaluate the impact of changes if implemented in the field. The model, calibrated to match actual performance, calculates the impact of changes in workloads. The deployment analysis is displayed as color-coded maps which can easily be ported into presentations and reports.

Capabilities of ADAM

ADAM’s capabilities can be effectively exploited to:

Evaluate impact of apparatus deployment changes on response performance
Quickly evaluate impact of budget cuts
Obtain plots of first due areas by unit capabilities
Analyze impact of station relocation
Compare the performances of alternate station locations
Project line up's by zone for different call types

Compare

ADAM provides two different scores, Incident and Coverage scores. Incident score gives the percentage of calls that can be reached within the specified time target. The performance for the areas with high call volume is given more weight than the areas with lower call volume.

Coverage score gives the percentage of area that can be reached within the specified time target. The performance for all areas within the service area is equally weighted

Coverage Performance vs Incident Performance

Demonstrate impact on service/performance due to

Annexations;
Station location/relocation or closures;
Apparatus relocation;
Other field deployment changes--response plans etc;

Assess response performance between career and volunteer units/stations
Analyze service duplication and weaknesses between consolidated departments
Analyze strengths and weakness of established staffing standards