Patent ID: 6882307

Claim:
A method of interactive tracking and inventorying of incident response equipment, the method comprising the steps of: identifying an existence of an incident location; determining an incident identification, and an incident profile; entering the incident location, the incident identification, and the incident profile into a command center; receiving global positioning signals from a GPS, the global positioning signals being received with an equipment transceiver that is located in close proximity to the incident response equipment, and transmitting an equipment location signal based upon the global positioning signals with the equipment transceiver through a communication network to the command center; receiving the equipment location signal from the equipment transceiver through a communication network and ascertaining an equipment location at the command center; coupling a data center and the command center in data communication with a data network; obtaining equipment information from an equipment database stored on a memory of the data center and transmitting the equipment information from the data center to the command center through the data network; correlating the equipment location and an equipment identification with the equipment information and the incident location with the incident profile to produce incident data, the incident data including an incident geographic region containing the equipment location and the incident location; accessing map data for at least the incident geographic region stored in a map database located within the data center; transmitting the map data through the data network to the command center; and displaying at least a portion of the incident data, at least a portion of the equipment information, and at least a portion of the map data corresponding to the incident geographic region at least at the command center.