Enterprise-grade disaster response,
built on global standards.

DRMS Jamaica is a continuously validated, recovery-assured disaster operations platform — engineered for resilience, auditability, and uninterrupted continuity through hurricanes, floods, seismic events, and multi-domain emergencies.

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UN Sendai aligned IASC MIRA Sphere Standards WHO IDSR ICRC Family Links NIMS / ICS CCRIF SPC CDEMA CDM CAP 1.2 OCHA HXL

Built for enterprise resilience

DRMS is engineered against the operational realities of disaster response — incomplete information, intermittent connectivity, escalating stakes, and the inability to take a service window. Six pillars define the platform.

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Recovery Assurance

Continuous validation that the platform itself, the data it captures, and the recovery actions it triggers remain operational under load.

  • Append-only audit log — every change provable
  • Daily encrypted database snapshots, 30-day local + 12-month off-host retention
  • Documented restore procedure
  • Auto-resolve on silent-failure recovery

Operational Continuity

No service window. Background data sync, offline-capable PWA, and graceful degradation when external feeds fail.

  • Service-worker cached UI for read-only access during outages
  • Cached NHC/USGS data served for up to 2 h on feed failure
  • WebSocket auto-reconnect with backoff
  • Idempotent submissions — safe to retry
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Continuous Validation

Auto-detection of stale, missing, or anomalous data — the platform watches itself for blind spots.

  • Sensor downtime detector — silent failures raise their own alert
  • Cross-domain anomaly engine — 2.5× rolling baseline triggers
  • SLA tracking on every workflow lifecycle
  • Webhook delivery health metrics per partner
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Intelligent Automation

The platform takes action on its own when thresholds breach — operators are notified, not asked.

  • Drone major-damage → auto-creates dispatchable damage report
  • 5+ RED triage tags → Mass Casualty Incident alert
  • MIRA severity 4+ → critical alert
  • WASH Sphere fail → water-quality alert
  • Shelter ≥ 80% → capacity warning
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Security & Compliance

Defence-in-depth on a stack designed for regulator and insurer scrutiny.

  • JWT auth + role-based access control
  • HTTPS + HMAC-SHA256 webhook signing
  • Rate limiting + CORS allow-list
  • Argon2/bcrypt password hashing
  • System audit log on every sensitive write
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Standards Alignment

Speak the language of every partner — UN agencies, Caribbean regional bodies, parametric insurers, federal/state emergency management.

  • UN Sendai indicators A through F — exportable CSV
  • OCHA HXL-tagged open data CSV
  • OASIS CAP 1.2 feed
  • NIMS ICS 201/202/209 PDF

Standards we implement or align with

DRMS Jamaica is built directly against the disaster-management standards used by UN agencies, the Red Cross, regional CARICOM bodies, and US/EU emergency management. Every export, report, and integration speaks the language partners expect.

United Nations / International

UN · Sendai

Sendai Framework 2015–2030

Indicators A through F computed, with CSV export ready for UNDRR Sendai Monitor submission.

UN · INFORM

INFORM Severity Index

1–5 severity scale used in MIRA cluster assessments; auto-alert at level 4+.

UN · IASC

MIRA — Multi-cluster IRA

10-cluster initial rapid assessment framework: food, WASH, health, nutrition, protection, shelter, education, logistics, recovery, CCCM.

UN · OCHA

HXL Humanitarian Exchange Language

Hashtag-prefixed CSV columns (#adm1+name, #affected+ind) for instant partner ingestion.

ICRC

Family Links / FTR

Family Tracing & Reunification record structure aligned with International Committee of the Red Cross standards.

WHO

IDSR — Disease Surveillance

Integrated Disease Surveillance & Response — syndromic case reporting with 2× baseline anomaly detection.

Sphere

Sphere Standards

Minimum WASH water-quality thresholds enforced: free chlorine ≥ 0.2 mg/L, pH 6.5–8.5, turbidity < 5 NTU, E. coli = 0.

Caribbean regional

CDEMA

Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM)

CDEMA CDM framework alignment across preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation phases.

CCRIF SPC

Parametric Insurance Triggers

Real-time monitoring of tropical cyclone, earthquake and excess-rainfall thresholds; instant alert on threshold breach.

CARICOM

EMAC Mutual Aid

Cross-jurisdiction resource-request lifecycle from submission through delivery, with aging and overdue tracking.

United States / Federal

NIMS

ICS — Incident Command System

Forms ICS 201 (briefing), 202 (objectives), 209 (status summary) generated as print-ready PDF from any event.

START

START Field Triage

Simple Triage and Rapid Treatment four-colour tagging; 5+ RED tags in 6 h auto-raises Mass Casualty Incident alert.

OASIS

CAP 1.2 — Common Alerting Protocol

Standards-compliant alert feed for emergency broadcast systems, partner aggregators and downstream services.

Technical & Security

IETF

JWT (RFC 7519)

JSON Web Tokens for stateless session authentication.

NIST

HMAC-SHA256

Outbound webhook signing using NIST FIPS 198-1.

OWASP

Argon2/bcrypt password hashing

OWASP-recommended adaptive hashing on all passwords at rest.

W3C

Progressive Web App

Service-worker caching for offline-capable read access; installable on mobile/desktop.

IEEE

Socket.IO / WebSocket

Real-time bidirectional event delivery to operator dashboards.

Production-grade reliability

Specifications and design parameters that anchor the platform's operational guarantees.

15 m
Anomaly detection cycle
Cross-domain anomaly engine runs every 15 minutes against a 7-day rolling baseline.
30 m
NHC / CCRIF poll
Hurricane track and parametric trigger watcher cycle.
6 h
Sensor silent threshold
Sensors with no reading for 6+ hours auto-raise a silent-failure alert.
Webhook retry
Exponential back-off (30 s → 5 min → 1 h) on partner endpoint failure.
30 d
Local backup retention
Daily encrypted DB snapshots kept on host. 12-month off-host retention beyond that.
Audit log retention
Append-only system audit log. Never deleted, never modified.
100%
HTTPS enforced
All external traffic over TLS via LiteSpeed + Let's Encrypt automated cert renewal.
RBAC
4 roles
admin / moderator / reporter / subscriber — least-privilege access on every endpoint.

Intelligent automation in action

DRMS Jamaica continuously watches its own data and takes operationally meaningful action without waiting for an operator. Below is the complete catalog of auto-triggers shipped in production.

Multi-domain detection

  • Cross-domain anomaly engine — calls, citizen reports, damage assessments, alert engine itself
  • Sensor silent-failure detection — 6 h warning, 24 h critical
  • Family-tracing spike — >5 missing in 24 h
  • Mass Casualty threshold — 5+ RED triage tags in 6 h
  • Shelter capacity — 80% warning, 95% critical
  • WASH Sphere failure — instant water-quality alert
  • Health surveillance anomaly — 2× baseline by syndrome × parish
  • MIRA severity 4+ — instant cluster alert

Automated response

  • Drone capture (major / destroyed) → damage assessment created + ground team alert
  • Damage report submission → auto-tag to active event for parish
  • Shelter check-in → auto-match against open FTR missing
  • Donation milestone ($1M JMD) → logged to event timeline
  • CCRIF threshold breach → finance leadership critical alert
  • Hurricane within 1500 km → event-page surfacing
  • Alert emission → webhook fanout to subscribed partners (HMAC-signed)
  • Alert emission → email/SMS subscribers per parish + alert-type filter

The DRMS lifecycle — Capture · Detect · Decide · Act · Report

A clean separation of concerns that mirrors how disaster response actually unfolds in the field.

1

Capture

Citizen reports, field assessments, sensors, drone imagery, call logs, mutual-aid requests.

2

Detect

Threshold alerts, CCRIF triggers, NHC cone monitoring, anomaly engine, silent-failure detection.

3

Decide

Live Map, event dashboard, MIRA matrix, ICS objectives — decision-ready visualisations.

4

Act

Dispatch, mutual aid lifecycle, resource matching, public alerts, partner webhook fanout.

5

Report

SitRep, ICS 201/202/209, Sendai CSV, HXL export, AAR — every step auditable.

Architecture at a glance

Designed for low maintenance, high reliability, and full transparency.

ACTORS 👥 Public Citizens subscribe · view status · FTR 🛡 Operators admin · moderator 🛰 Field Reporters damage · drone · triage 📡 Sensors IoT · uplinks 🤝 Partners CDEMA · ODPEM INTERFACE LAYER · PWA · responsive · offline-capable PUBLIC PAGES status · my-alerts ftr-public · CAP feed no auth · cache-friendly OPERATOR CONSOLE dashboard · live-map event · humanitarian · intl JWT · RBAC · audited FIELD REPORTER damage · triage · drone photo upload · GPS offline draft · sync ICS REPORTS ICS 201 · 202 · 209 SitRep · Sendai CSV print-to-PDF WEBHOOKS HMAC-SHA256 retry 30s→5m→1h signed payload API LAYER · REST + WebSocket (Socket.IO) /api/auth · /alerts · /monitoring · /damage · /humanitarian · /sendai · /triage · /donations · /webhooks JWT (RFC 7519) auth · role-based access control · rate-limiting · CORS allow-list · per-write audit middleware · TLS via LiteSpeed/Let's Encrypt REAL-TIME ENGINES • monitoring-engine — sensor thresholds • alert-engine — alert lifecycle • lightning-engine — GLM strikes • traffic-engine — road network • power-monitor — outage detection • jps-sync — utility sync in-process · Socket.IO push to operators CONTINUOUS VALIDATION • nhc-poller — every 30 min • ccrif-watcher — every 30 min • anomaly-engine — every 15 min (2.5× baseline) • sensor-health — every 10 min (silent failure) • webhook-dispatcher — every 30 s • geofence-engine — zone breach cron-based · self-healing · cooldown-aware INTELLIGENT AUTOMATION • Drone (major/destroyed) → damage report • MIRA ≥ 4 → critical alert • 5+ RED triage / 6h → MCI alert • Shelter ≥ 80% → capacity warning • Donation milestone → event log • Shelter check-in → FTR auto-match trigger on POST · audit-logged · idempotent PERSISTENCE & RECOVERY ASSURANCE 💾 SQLite · jims.db primary operational store · WAL · ACID 📁 uploads/ drone images · KMZ · photos · 25 MB cap 🔒 system_audit append-only · immutable 🛡 BACKUP daily · 30d local · 12mo off-host encrypted snapshot ↗ EXTERNAL FEEDS DRMS-owned Public surface Partner / outbound Immutable audit Infrastructure / storage DRMS Jamaica · v3 · 2026

Trusted alignment

🌐 UN Sendai Framework 🌊 CCRIF SPC parametric 🤝 CDEMA CDM 🏥 WHO IDSR 💧 Sphere Standards 🚑 ICRC Family Links 🇺🇸 NIMS / ICS 📡 OASIS CAP 1.2 🔐 OWASP password storage 🔑 NIST HMAC-SHA256 📦 W3C Progressive Web App

Built for governments. Run by professionals.

DRMS Jamaica is operated by Wocom Limited and serves as the primary disaster response platform for the Caribbean region. Production-grade reliability, continuously validated, with full audit trails for regulator and insurer scrutiny.

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