APX™ Personnel Accountability Application User Manual 8 May 2015 Systems Definition, Inc. 5904 Richmond Highway Suite 330 Alexandria, VA 22303 703-717-0222 www.systemsdefinition.com www.firegroundaccountability.com Copyright © 2015 Systems Definition, Inc., All Rights Reserved. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 1-1 1.1 APX PERSONNEL ACCOUNTABILITY APPLICATION OVERVIEW ................................................................... 1-1 1.2 DOCUMENT ORGANIZATION ......................................................................................................................... 1-2 1.3 DOCUMENT CONVENTIONS .......................................................................................................................... 1-2 2 MAYDAYS ......................................................................................................................... 2-1 2.1 MANUAL MAYDAY ...................................................................................................................................... 2-1 2.2 VERBAL MAYDAY ........................................................................................................................................ 2-1 3 LAUNCHING APAA ......................................................................................................... 3-1 3.1 STARTING APAA ON A PORTABLE COMPUTER ............................................................................................ 3-1 4 APAA OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................... 4-1 4.1 FUNCTION BUTTONS .................................................................................................................................... 4-1 4.1.1 Channels Button ........................................................................................................................................ 4-2 4.1.2 View Button .............................................................................................................................................. 4-2 4.1.3 Relieved Button ......................................................................................................................................... 4-4 4.1.4 Clear Button .............................................................................................................................................. 4-5 4.2 RF MODEM STATUS BOX ............................................................................................................................. 4-6 4.3 INCIDENT TIMER .......................................................................................................................................... 4-6 4.4 MEGAPHONE BUTTON .................................................................................................................................. 4-6 4.4.1 Evacuation ................................................................................................................................................. 4-7 4.4.2 PAR/Rollcall ........................................................................................................................................... 4-10 4.5 LAST TX ..................................................................................................................................................... 4-12 5 USING APAA - GRAPHICAL VIEW ............................................................................. 5-1 5.1 OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................................................... 5-1 5.2 COLLAPSE ALL/ EXPAND ALL UNITS AND COLLAPSE/EXPAND UNIT BUTTONS ........................................... 5-1 5.3 UNIT ASSIGNMENTS PULL-DOWN ................................................................................................................ 5-2 5.4 ROSTER BUTTONS ........................................................................................................................................ 5-3 5.5 MEMBER DIALOG BOXES ............................................................................................................................. 5-3 5.5.1 Mayday/Resolve Button ............................................................................................................................ 5-5 5.5.2 Account/Unaccount Button ....................................................................................................................... 5-6 5.5.3 Poll Radio Button ...................................................................................................................................... 5-8 6 USING APAA – TABLE VIEW ....................................................................................... 6-1 6.1 RADIO STATUS TABLE ................................................................................................................................. 6-1 6.1.1 Mayday Transmission Highlighting in Radio Status Table ....................................................................... 6-3 6.1.2 Assign and Resolve Mayday from Radio Status Table ............................................................................. 6-3 6.1.3 Radio Polling ............................................................................................................................................. 6-5 6.2 ALERTS TABLE ............................................................................................................................................. 6-6 6.3 COMPANIES TABLE ...................................................................................................................................... 6-8 6.3.1 Company Roster ........................................................................................................................................ 6-8 7 LOG FILES ........................................................................................................................ 7-1 7.1 LOG VIEWER ................................................................................................................................................ 7-1 7.2 LOG FILES .................................................................................................................................................... 7-2 ii LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1-1. APX Personnel Accountability Application User Interface .................................................................... 1-2 Figure 3-1. ERROR: RFModem Not Detected .......................................................................................................... 3-1 Figure 4-1. APAA Main Screen (Graphical View) ................................................................................................... 4-1 Figure 4-2. Upper Main Screen ................................................................................................................................. 4-1 Figure 4-3. Select Your Channel ............................................................................................................................... 4-2 Figure 4-4. Graphical View - Received Mayday Message ........................................................................................ 4-3 Figure 4-5. Table View - Received Mayday Message ............................................................................................... 4-3 Figure 4-6. Relieve Companies Dialog Box .............................................................................................................. 4-4 Figure 4-7. Relieve Companies Dialog Box Showing a Company That Has Been Relieved .................................... 4-4 Figure 4-8. Clear Data Options .................................................................................................................................. 4-5 Figure 4-9. Incident Timer Reset and All Data Cleared (Graphical View) ............................................................... 4-6 Figure 4-10. Reset Incident Timer ............................................................................................................................. 4-6 Figure 4-11. Evacuation/PAR/Rollcall Buttons ......................................................................................................... 4-7 Figure 4-12. Begin Evacuation .................................................................................................................................. 4-7 Figure 4-13. Viewing Ongoing Evacuation Status .................................................................................................... 4-8 Figure 4-14. Manually View Status of Individual Member ....................................................................................... 4-9 Figure 4-15. End Evacuation ..................................................................................................................................... 4-9 Figure 4-16. Begin Rollcall ..................................................................................................................................... 4-10 Figure 4-17. Active Rollcall (Collapsed View) ....................................................................................................... 4-11 Figure 4-18. Expanded View PAR/Rollcall Showing 12 of 12 Members Accounted For....................................... 4-11 Figure 4-19. End Rollcall Button ............................................................................................................................