Home > Case Studies > Iowa Critical Incident Mapping (CIM) Project
FacebookLinkedInXPinterestEmail
Dark Mode

Iowa Critical Incident Mapping (CIM) Project

GeoComm School Safety

Accelerate school incident response with trusted and patented technology for superior real-time indoor visualization. GeoComm School Safety empowers your school and community with a dynamic footprint for a more unified, effective, and responsive security.

GeoComm School Safety is a digital mapping solution which leverages the latest Esri ArcGIS technology to support faster response to school emergencies. This solution enables panic button and 9-1-1 caller locations to be displayed on a detailed indoor map of the school and alerts other authorized users to the incident.

Iowa CIM Project Video

Stepping up the game: Working together to keep our schools safer

GeoComm worked with the Iowa Department of Education to implement critical incident mapping (CIM) for over 1,400 Iowa schools as part of Governor Reynolds’ School Safety Initiative. As part of this project, the GeoComm School Safety solution staff conducted site visits to verify the accuracy of provided floor plan resources, scan school buildings, and collect locations of public safety points of interest in and around schools.

GeoComm School Safety is delivering the Iowa critical incident mapping (CIM) solution for planning and responding to emergencies occurring on school properties by providing detailed indoor maps of schools and surrounding grounds.

June 28, 2023

GIS Resources

Carbon County 9-1-1 Indoor Maps Project

The Carbon County Pennsylvania Communications Center recently partnered with GeoComm to create GIS-based indoor maps for buildings throughout their county. These indoor maps would be valuable and vital pieces of information for their dispatchers and first responders to aid in improving situational awareness and decreasing response times. Carbon County Communications Center dispatchers access their indoor maps in RapidSOS Portal, provided by GeoComm partner RapidSOS.

Tri-County School Safety Pilot Project

The Tri-County School Safety Pilot Project aimed to create detailed GIS indoor maps of seven pilot schools in the Tri-County area to improve response times to school incidents. The maps were shared with dispatch centers to be used in their 9-1-1 applications.

Concho Valley Council of Governments (CVCOG), Texas Exploring a New Way to Make Schools Safer Using GIS

CVCOG provides emergency communications services for approximately 16,300 square mile region in West Texas, supporting 15 Public Service Answering Points (PSAPs) within the thirteen-county region.