SWARM—U.S. Patent Number: 7,337,146

SWARM is an advanced information dissemination platform. It “mashes up,” or aggregates, mission-critical information and Web services from many sources, and delivers them to precisely the right groups at the right time.

SWARM is the technical foundation of Swan Island’s TIES. From Hawaii to Sweden, it’s used every day by emergency managers and risk professionals who want to share information and resources in order to make more informed and timely decisions.

Since 2002, SWARM has been used for information sharing in numerous federal, state and local government R&D projects—and has benefited from over $3 million in government R&D funding.

SWARM supports high-assurance Communities of Trust, with both centralized access controls and individually-customized content filtering.

SWARM’s patented emergency information dissemination system is based on the principles of Swarm Intelligence (SI)—as opposed to centralized methodologies of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In an SI system, highly distributed, highly connected simple nodes produce complex results by following a few key rules. Read an article about swarm intelligence.

Today, SWARM is the foundation of the growing TIES growing network—a high-trust, online computing environment where large commercial enterprises, foreign government agencies, intelligence groups, US federal agencies, trade associations and others share information and resources with trusted partners…while also getting the consolidated information feeds they need to make smarter decisions.

To learn more about the architectural principles of swarm intelligence, send an email to Charles Jennings: Charles.W.Jennings@swanisland.net.