What is the OrDa Positioning and Data System?
OrDa is a cutting-edge positioning and data system developed through a close collaboration between BERNOT Information Technology and mountain rescue and slope operations in Austria. It’s designed to work seamlessly on customer-specific mobile devices—smartphones, tablets, notebooks, and PCs—whether online or offline. This system isn’t just about tracking locations; it includes geo-referenced image documentation, digitized command and control, and the ability to connect with third-party system interfaces. Lightweight and durable, OrDa devices are carried by active rescue teams on their bodies, used in rescue vehicles, and even airborne in SAR helicopters. The system enables continuous monitoring of the current situation from distributed control centers and headquarters, allowing dynamic assignment of situation reports, locations, routes, and search areas.
Main Benefits of the OrDa System
OrDa offers a range of powerful benefits that make rescue operations more efficient and effective:
- Real-time digital creation, processing, forwarding, evaluation, and billing of deployment data, including patient protocols
- Media-break-free digitization technology that preserves evidence securely
- Geo-referenced image documentation with map display and integrated Search and Rescue (SAR) functionality
- Operates reliably both online and offline, ensuring continuous data flow
- Lightweight, durable devices tailored for active rescue forces and various operational environments
- Dynamic control center monitoring with the ability to assign and adjust search areas and routes on the fly
Virtualizing Robust Performers and Organizations
BERNOT Information Technology champions the idea of distributed, flexible, and mobile organizations that can react faster and better to the ever-changing demands of local, regional, and global markets. By virtualizing performers, organizations, and value chains, companies can strengthen their resilience against both external and internal influences. The approach encourages using processes and tools that help overcome market challenges calmly and effectively—no stress, just smart management.
Resource Management Made Simple and Effective
Managing resources, portfolios, and projects has never been easier or more adaptable. With BERNOT’s methods, organizations can distribute and mobilize resources as needed, visualizing everything from locations and mobile units to raw materials, products, services, customers, partners, employees, know-how, and finances. Planning, deployment, and billing happen in real time, with constant overviews accessible anytime, anywhere. It’s about having control without being tied down.
Recruitment and Training with Transparency and Fairness
Recruiting and training coworkers is streamlined through standardized procedures that emphasize transparency, fairness, motivation, and self-control. This creates a work environment where regulations are clear and empowering, helping organizations build teams that are not only skilled but also engaged and self-driven. It’s a modern approach to workforce development that aligns perfectly with the dynamic nature of today’s mobile and distributed organizations.
Project Impact: Linking to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being – Enhancing emergency response and healthcare through real-time data and efficient rescue operations
- SDG 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure – Developing innovative digital solutions and robust infrastructure for rescue and operational management
- SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities – Supporting resilient and adaptive organizations that contribute to safer communities
- SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals – Fostering collaboration between technology providers, rescue organizations, and healthcare sectors
BERNOT Information Technology’s Vision for the Future
BERNOT Information Technology is not just about rescue systems; it’s an engineering company pushing the boundaries of city mobility and smart solutions. By integrating principles and technologies from Industry 4.0, IoT, artificial intelligence, robotics, shared economy, renewable energy, lightweight construction, mobile IT, and GNSS-based technologies, BERNOT is shaping a future where organizations are more connected, responsive, and sustainable. The OrDa system is just one example of how these innovations come together to make a real difference in people’s lives.
