The 2005 IAEM Annual Conference hosted an Interoperability Pavilion November 14-15th in Phoenix, Arizona.

The pavilion, sponsored by IAEM, COMCARE, EIC and Roaming Messenger, focused on interoperable emergency communications and highlighted data standards.  Companies who have built interfaces to the Common Alerting Protocol or one of the draft Emergency Data eXchange Language (EDXL) specifications showcased their systems by communicating messages with others. 

The Interoperability Pavilion displayed the current status of data communications interoperability utilizing the standards both developed and emerging that are coming from the efforts of the emergency practitioner Standards Working Group sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security’s Disaster Management Program (DM), in conjunction with the Emergency Interoperability Consortium and the Emergency Management Technical Committee of the OASIS standards body. The pavilion allowed a free and productive dialogue between those developing the standards, those writing to the standards, and those in the field.

The following documents provide further information about data standards:

• Interoperability Overview
• Data Standards Process
• Data Standards Overview
• EPAD and Emergency Management
• EPAD Connect Case Study
• EPAD Case Study

The following documents depict the scenarios and participants from the IAEM demonstration:

• Schedule of Events
• Participating Vendors
• Pavilion Press Release
• Explosion Scenario
• Hurricane Scenario
• Pandemic Flu Scenario

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