Proximal Content Management and Delivery Ecosystem

Challenges

Streamline a cloud-based Content Management System for proximal content. FutureOrb will address the following:

  1. Organizations (e.g., DoD, commercial businesses) desire to bolster the skill level and proficiency of individuals with an adaptive training framework via a custom mobile app.

  2. An individual’s ability to automatically access Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) or other training content on-demand to become knowledgeable/certified in skills that are relative to their immediate environment.

  3. Ability to drive traffic (e.g., First Responders, emergency response information) to provide direct instruction to individuals in defined areas within a physical location.

  4. Provide a content creation, management, and delivery solution that’s easy to use and update, and can be managed by a non-technical person.

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The GBL Systems Corporation Solution

FutureOrb: Proximal Content Management & Delivery Tool

FutureOrb is a patented technology using AWS Cloud services, providing enhanced software technologies and algorithms to create a content management system. FutureOrb also weaves a set of heterogeneous wireless signals into an enterprise, creating a Proximal Abstraction Layer to accelerate the publication and deployment of proximal content.

FutureOrb provides on-demand workforce training and real-time proximity specific data generation relative to an individual's position to a group of wireless signals. This includes the ability for First Responders to add incident markers, images, notes, audio, and other data types.

FutureOrb also reduces lifecycle maintenance costs as well as personnel costs for deploying an adaptive training content to a complex array of locations through a Content Management System (CMS).

Benefits

FutureOrb Proximity delivers a framework that enables managing, deploying, and viewing targeted content at proximal locations while reducing the operational and lifecycle maintenance costs that pertain to training materials and manuals.

Creates a New Communications Medium

Connects First Responders with critical incident data from the moment they leave their vehicle, through the emergency response incident.

Distribute Content to Multiple Locations

GPS, Bluetooth Low Energy, and other wireless signals can be easily grouped, allowing content delivery across various devices and locations simultaneously.

Provides Organizations a Scalable Solution

Organizations can create a unique wireless infrastructure for the collection, assignment, and management of heterogeneous wireless signals and publication of proximal content.

Allows for Custom White Label Apps

Organizations can create their own custom mobile application called a “white label app,” powered by the FutureOrb Proximity technology.

FutureOrb Proximity Capabilities

Create Content

Provides a common user interface for creating content via mobile application or CMS utilizing content templates that can provide training material in a wide array of forms such as: documents, videos, audio, interactive web pages, and other media.

Manage Content

Provides a robust Content Management System (CMS) to produce a scalable content management and deployment solution, which allows for content to be assigned, grouped, ranked, sorted, and filtered.

Deliver Content

Deliver assigned content to a proximal location, leveraging a priority engagement system that allows for proximal content to be filtered in-app. Easily create device groups, allowing training Orbs to be distributed to multiple locations seamlessly across any device that emits a signal, as well as via GPS to specific lat/lon coordinates anywhere in the world.

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FutureOrb Proximity for Sailor 2025

The FutureOrb Proximity framework is a real-time cloud-based content management system (CMS) technology that allows users to create, manage, and deliver custom-created content, mapped to a physical location via wireless signal. FutureOrb Proximity aims to address Sailor 2025 Ready Relevant Learning (RRL) initiatives by developing mission-based proximal training scenarios for the Navy.

Installations

Base Operations

  • Human Resource Engagements

  • Location-Based Asset Management

  • Real-Time Building Security & Logistics

  • Self-Guided Base Tours and During Public Events

Training & STEM

High-Velocity Learning

  • Supports Sailor 2025 Training Initiatives

  • Advances Warfighter Performance

  • Provides Virtual Manuals for Battlespace Equipment

  • Reduces Costs for Training and Education

Tactical Operation

Improved Command, Control

  • Supports Proximal Communications

  • Rapid Decision Support Tool for C2

  • Low-Cost, Scalable Technology

  • Capable of Operating in Various Environments

Case Studies

Case Study 1: 2017 Coastal Trident Event – Active Shooter Emergency Response

Challenges

Deploy a near-real-time CMS for First Responders during an event called Coastal Trident that allows for content to be created, managed, and delivered to mobile devices via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons and GPS lat/lon geofenced locations.

Solution

Utilize FutureOrb Proximity CMS, mobile app, and BLE devices/GPS to provide a near real-time interoperable communication method to deliver scenario-based proximal content for participating First Responders and Facility Security Officers throughout the event exercise.

Status/Results

Used successfully by First Responders to take a self-guided tour of the port, where they received proximal content related to each building (e.g., hazardous material). For the active shooter scenario, First Responders gave positive feedback on the proximal communications they received.

Case Study 2: Navy FutureOrb Proximity for STEM Learning (FO-SL)

Challenges

Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) to implement a learning environment that aligns with the Navy’s Sailor 2025 Ready Relevant Learning training program concepts

Solution

FutureOrb Proximity delivers STEM learning content “when you want it, where you want it,” a Naval Ready Relevant Learning (RRL) construct. The FO-SL project will develop and implement two new learning experiences at the Orlando Science Center (OSC) STEM Discovery Center.

Status/Results

FutureOrb Proximity successfully provided the OSC an extensible framework to promote STEM Learning Experiences across their various exhibits, at several STEM-related events, and even added value during a global pandemic — delivering engaging Learning Experiences for users to explore at their own pace with unfacilitated instruction.

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