Vamos Volunteer Identity Platform and Incident Command System

Making mesh networks functional

Why Vamos?

• Portability

  • Each Vamos node is a Raspberry Pi with a complete version of the server code. Everything can be accessed without any external internet

• Usability

  • No installation required. Can create it's own AP

• Resilience

  • Local network allows for eventual replication while providing full uptime
  • Cloud database based backup and discovery features

• Scalability

  • Can be run in a cluster, allowing for many different availibility configurations
  • Naturally distributed, so it is possible for a node to send events to another node on the network.

• Security

  • Industry standard HTTPS communication
  • Encrypting possible sensitive data at rest.

• Accountability

  • System keeps a full record of events, so that each change can be replayed and researched.

This is all meant to support the National Incident Management System.

What is the National Incident Management System (NIMS)?

NIMS is a comprehensive, national approach to incident management that is applicable at all jurisdictional levels. It is intended to:

• Be applicable across a full spectrum of potential incidents, hazards, and impacts, regardless of size, location or complexity.
• Improve coordination and cooperation between public and private entities in a variety of incident management activities.
• Provide a common standard for overall incident management.

Installation

If you wish to run your own Vamos node, you will need an environment running Java 11 and a Postgres database with a specific schema.

Database Schema

Please see akka-persistence-postgresql