LISA (Local Incident Services Application) is a web-based crisis and incident management application designed to support real-time decision making, structured logging, and cross-agency collaboration during emergency incidents. It allows teams to digitally manage incidents, capture critical information, and securely share updates across stakeholders, improving coordination and response times.
Current status:
Technical Validation – Actively Refining & Debugging – Successfully tested in a live exercise in September 2024, demonstrating its intended functionality to initial stakeholders. While the core features have been validated, ongoing refinements are being made to resolve bugs, enhance stability, and improve user experience before full deployment.
Future development:
Moving Toward Deployment-Ready & Scaling – Enhancing tasking capabilities, customisable forms, and interoperability, while scaling LISA to support up to 100 concurrent users.
Many local resilience teams still rely on paper-based logging and manual information-sharing, leading to delays in communication, inefficiencies in decision-making, and difficulty in post-incident reviews. LISA digitises and streamlines incident logging, ensuring secure, structured, and interoperable data capture, reducing administrative burden, and improving collaboration between emergency responders .
LISA tests the ability of National Digital Twin Programme’s (NDTP’s) Integration Architecture (IA) to ingest information from multiple parties in real time to create a structured, sequential, immutable event log where policy requirements around access to sensitive information are automatically applied.
LISA (Local Incident Services Application) is a web-based crisis and incident management application designed to support real-time decision making, structured logging, and cross-agency collaboration during emergency incidents. It allows teams to digitally manage incidents, capture critical information, and securely share updates across stakeholders, improving coordination and response times.
Current status
Technical Validation – Actively Refining & Debugging – Successfully tested in a live exercise in September 2024, demonstrating its intended functionality to initial stakeholders. While the core features have been validated, ongoing refinements are being made to resolve bugs, enhance stability, and improve user experience before full deployment.
Future development
Moving Toward Deployment-Ready & Scaling – Enhancing tasking capabilities, customisable forms, and interoperability, while scaling LISA to support up to 100 concurrent users.
Many local resilience teams still rely on paper-based logging and manual information-sharing, leading to delays in communication, inefficiencies in decision-making, and difficulty in post-incident reviews. LISA digitises and streamlines incident logging, ensuring secure, structured, and interoperable data capture, reducing administrative burden, and improving collaboration between emergency responders.
LISA tests the ability of National Digital Twin Programme’s (NDTP’s) Integration Architecture (IA) to ingest information from multiple parties in real time to create a structured, sequential, immutable event log where policy requirements around access to sensitive information are automatically applied.
Emergency Responders
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary
Local authorities
Isle of Wight Council
LISA is a key testbed for advancing NDTP’s open-source infrastructure.
Through this demonstrator, we are:
In September 2024, we conducted a field exercise with the Isle of Wight Council. This exercise simulated an avian influenza outbreak, testing LISA’s functionality across laptop and mobile devices, with users logging information both from offices and in the field.
During the test, the following features were validated:
The feedback was overwhelmingly positive, highlighting LISA’s ability to improve situational awareness and facilitate decision-making. However, the exercise also revealed areas for enhancement and further scaling.
Following the September 2024 field exercise, two major modules were identified for development in preparation for LISA’s next major test.
Users will be able to create and customise forms within LISA, allowing for tailored incident data capture that aligns with established emergency response workflows.
During testing, many users used LISA as a task management tool, despite it not being originally designed for this purpose. Recognising this unmet need, we are now developing a dedicated tasking module that will:
The next phase of testing will focus on:
These developments require modifications to the IA and extensions to the IES ontology, ensuring LISA remains scalable, interoperable, and secure.
The application is packaged in one repository:
The application is packaged in one repository:
There are multiple ways to engage with LISA, whether you are part of government, emergency response, academia, or the technical community:
If you’re interested in collaborating, adopting, or contributing, get in touch via ndtp@businessandtrade.co.uk or explore the open-source codebase on GitHub.
