Press Release - June 30 2006

Bio-security for Australia’s primary industries and the broader environment depends upon the ability to launch appropriate response action in the event of a serious incident. Failure to prevent and / or control these incidents could result in billions of dollars lost in export revenues as well as increases in production costs.
The Primary Industries Ministerial Council with the full support of all States, Territories and the Commonwealth has decided to develop a new computer application to be known as BioSIRT (Bio-security, Surveillance, Incident Response and Tracing). The NSW Department of Primary Industries, acting on their behalf, has contracted Spatial Vision to undertake this significant national project.

BioSIRT will be used by each jurisdiction for managing emergency and routine incidents of disease, pests or incursions. The use of a single application will enable information to be quickly exchanged between jurisdictions to facilitate a coordinated response, especially in an emergency incident. Historically each jurisdiction would have developed its own system leading to national inconsistencies and overall higher development costs.

The initial version of BioSIRT will include three main components - SQCR (Survey, Quarantine, Control and Recovery), CRIS (Client Resource Information System) and RMP (Resource Management Package) - all closely integrated. Spatial Vision will develop the SQCR component and a stand-alone version of the CRIS component. The RMP component will be acquired separately and integrated with SQCR and CRIS.

BioSIRT will be deployed within each jurisdiction, both as part of the main IT infrastructure but also onto a stand-alone server for use in the field in an emergency. When deployed in the field, BioSIRT will be able to operate independently. When deployed to a jurisdiction’s main IT infrastructure, it will make use of the jurisdiction’s existing CRIS system.

BioSIRT represents a determination by all jurisdictions to eliminate inter-jurisdictional barriers and enable a consistent approach to bio-security issues. Spatial Vision’s solution addresses these fundamental issues.

BioSIRT will be developed as a J2EE web application using so-called “Web 2.0” techniques to deliver a rich and responsive user interface. It will include a fully integrated spatial capability based on Oracle Locator and open-source WMS and WFS servers. The mapping interface will be developed using the IMF (Internet Mapping Framework) software from Moxi Media and will support full spatial data editing via the web browser.

Spatial Vision’s Project Manager for the BioSIRT application is Ian Miller, a Director of the company with over 15 years’ experience in designing and developing innovative natural resource management applications.

For further information, please contact:

Ian Miller
Ph: (03) 9691 3000
email info@spatialvision.com.au

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