A modern OS information system for the french fire fighters
summary
NexSIS is a unified information and command system for French fire and rescue that targets 100 departments and about 50,000 users, designed to handle up to 21 million calls and 5 million interventions per year. It uses an open stack: PostgreSQL with PostGIS and pgRouting, ETL with Apache Airflow, web mapping via OpenLayers, hosted on Scaleway; development runs across eight agile teams for 110+ sprints with a 2018–2020 POC and a first instance live in 2024. A cloud‑native GeoServer provides high availability and elastic scaling, and the platform is operational.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker
- 1:50Company background and open source
- 3:56Project Nexus overview
- 5:47Reasons behind Nexus project
- 8:13Digital sovereignty and interoperability
- 11:23Nexus system components
- 14:32Agile development process
- 15:37Open source requirements
- 17:22Open source components used
- 20:36Geoserver cloud native transformation
- 23:05Synergy in open source projects
- 25:52OpenLayers improvements
- 26:13Mission critical open source system
- 26:35Q&A session
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