Stephen Guerin, the CEO of SimTable, said his company started using FireBase about 18 months ago because it enabled the real-time collaboration without having to invent all of the backend work itself.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office acquired the SimTable late last year through a grant from Homeland Security. The technology costs around $100,000, and officials believe it could play a key ...

The SimTable is mobile and will be taken to local communities as part of severe weather event planning and information sessions to plot the impact of potential severe weather events on properties.

The conference in Baltimore also was not Guerin’s first experience with PlugFest; at TechNet Land Forces South in Tampa, Guerin placed first by using SimTable to provide a similar 3-D display of ...

The Simtable also has firefighting settings, such as bulldozer lines and tanker drops, that a commander can use to “fight” the fire virtually, and plan accordingly in the real world.

Before partnering with Firebase, SimTable chief executive Stephen Guerin said he had to build out and manage the backend system for his company’s app on his own. It took up about 20 hours a week ...

The new SimTable will be accessible to emergency response agencies within Colorado's North Central All-Hazards Region (NCR). The Denver Urban Area is comprised of the 10 counties in this region ...

Kasra "Kaz" Manavi, director of research and communications at Simtable, gets a sand table ready to demonstrate their ambient computing ability by running a projection of the Medio Fire. (Eddie ...

Simtable then projects an image of the fire spreading. Fire agencies use that simulation to create strategies for battling wildfires or look at previous wildfires to review how departments ...

Stephen Guerin of Simtable showcases his solution to the common operational picture portion of the second PlugFest mash-up challenge. Guerin won first place in the event. Members of government and ...

The SimTable can be used as an education tool to show them how quickly a fire might reach them if winds and climate conditions are set a certain way, sales representative Shelley Rossbach said.