An unattended watch wall that rotates through the whole common operating picture on its own, shows how fresh every feed is, and breaks its own rotation to put an escalation on the glass — the moment it crosses the line.
Ask a duty officer what they actually watch and they'll show you: NWS in one tab, USGS in another, the utility outage map, Caltrans QuickMap, CAL FIRE incidents, the CAD board, WebEOC, three county feeds. Nine to fifteen tabs, refreshed by hand.
Nothing on those screens says whether a feed is two minutes or two hours old — so a quiet map reads the same whether nothing is happening or the feed quietly died. And nothing tells the officer when something changed. They have to catch it.
No unattended wall mode · data age invisible · no attention management · and it lives in someone else's cloud, licensed per seat.
Motorola CommandCentral Aware, Hexagon HxGN OnCall, Juvare WebEOC, Everbridge, Palantir — powerful, but operator-driven, per-seat, and cloud-locked. Built for a mouse, not a shift.
Grafana's kiosk + playlist mode is the only tool built to run a screen unattended on a timer — and it's GIS-thin: one map panel, no incident depth, no hazard feeds.
An unattended, geospatial, freshness-honest, sovereign watch wall that manages the room's attention. That intersection was empty. So we built it.
The wall caught this live — at 5% containment — and put it on the glass. Nobody was at the keyboard.
Live map + headline KPIs + the FEMA 8-lifeline stoplight.
Incidents by county — bars ⇄ map ⇄ table, cross-filtered.
NWS alert ticker · river gauges · earthquakes · smoke/AQI.
8 FEMA lifeline gauges · shelters open, capacity & ADA.
Cal OES outage areas · CAISO fuel mix · customers out.
Speaks the doctrine fluently: NIMS/ICS, FEMA Community Lifelines (all 8), CAP alerts, CISA sectors — the vocabulary the room already runs on.
The geographic frame a duty officer reads by — always on, beneath every layer, from the state's own service.
Click any hazard — perimeter, evac zone, outage, alert, gauge, county — and its live attributes open in a popup.
Toggle the CAL FIRE severity zones; click for the class — Moderate, High, Very High — right on the wall.
Dark control-room by default; a one-tap light theme; a chromeless big-type variant for the video wall.
Bilingual EN/AR (with RTL). And a one-click shift-briefing PDF generated from live state — the report writes itself.
| What the wall shows | Live source (keyless unless noted) |
|---|---|
| Active incidents & perimeters | CAL FIRE FIRIS + NIFC/WFIGS · CAL FIRE incidents API |
| Evacuations · shelters | Cal OES / Zonehaven · CDSS active shelter sites |
| Power outages · grid | Cal OES outage areas (15-min) · CAISO fuel mix |
| Weather · hydro · air | NWS CAP alerts · USGS quakes & streamflow · EPA AirNow |
| County lines · fire hazard zones | CA GIO boundaries · CAL FIRE FRAP severity zones |
external live feeds — 19 verified live
CA services cataloged · 713 role-tagged
API keys · logins · data egress
Re-pointing to your jurisdiction is configuration, not development.
Your watch officers stop refreshing tabs. Your PIOs get a briefing that writes itself. Your leadership walks in and reads the room in one glance.
Open the demo, let it rotate, and watch the freshness dots tick. Somewhere in California, a fire will cross the line — and the wall will bring it to you, without a click.