Jamaica's Disaster Response & Monitoring System
Maintained by Wocom Limited
Jamaica's Disaster Response & Monitoring System
Maintained by Wocom Limited
How it works
Live sensors, authoritative feeds and crowd-sourced reports all flow into a single operations centre — where thresholds become alerts, alerts become dispatched response, and every event is tracked end-to-end.
Every 30 seconds the system re-evaluates every hazard sensor on the island and decides what — if anything — needs to happen next.
River-level, rainfall, storm-surge, wind and seismic stations across all 14 parishes feed live readings to the platform, alongside USGS earthquakes, NHC hurricane tracks, satellite imagery and weather radar.
Every reading is checked against per-sensor warning and critical thresholds. When a threshold is crossed, an alert is raised automatically and the asset risk grid is recomputed.
Alerts are routed by severity to dashboard, email and SMS — with a full audit trail. Operators can acknowledge or resolve alerts from the Alert Centre.
Operators open a disaster event with a live timeline, impacted parishes, population estimates and response logs. Field inspections and response tasks are assigned to the right responding agency automatically.
A 911-style dispatch console with ALI, geocoded address search, location-via-SMS and live video brings calls and field reports together — every incident becomes a tracked event on the public map.
The public map layers everything you need to read the hazard picture at a glance.
Toggle layers from the legend to focus on what matters — weather radar, hurricane tracks, earthquakes, flood zones, dispatch incidents, evacuation routes or crowd-sourced damage reports. Clusters expand as you zoom in.
A purpose-built CAD console — caller ALI, geocoded address search, live location-via-SMS, video-from-caller, agency-coloured event creation, and parish-accurate routing. Every dispatched event is mirrored to the public hazard map as a live incident.
Incidents are routed to the right responding agency automatically by incident type, with ODPEM as oversight. Every team sees the events they're responsible for — and ODPEM sees everything.
The public map does not require an account and does not track members of the public. Field-reporter accounts (issued by Wocom Limited) record the incidents you submit, your contact details and the location of geotagged reports — used only by responding agencies to verify and follow up. See the Privacy Policy for the full detail.
Open the map, or report something you've seen — every accurate report makes the island safer.