Rescue and emergency services must be managed effectively in order to work efficiently. This cannot always be guaranteed from a fixed control center, in which case a mobile incident command vehicle is required. The corresponding vehicle is known as an ICV, an Incident Command Vehicle. Not quite correctly also called an ICV vehicle, the term can be translated as "incident command vehicle".
The idea behind the ICV is that in the event of a disaster, such as a flood, a major fire or a plane crash, the emergency services, which have very different tasks to perform and operate from different organizations, must be optimally coordinated and managed. To ensure this coordination and communication, an interdisciplinary, mobile operations center, the ICV vehicle, is brought to the scene. Set up like a TV broadcasting van, for example, the ICV offers six operator stations for the incident commanders from the THW, German Armed Forces, police and fire departments, as well as ambulance and other services if necessary. The ICV provides extensive technology for the coordination of organization-specific tasks and for external and internal communication, which means that a collapsed radio and telephone network can be restored by the ICV within a radius of 50 kilometers in the event of a disaster.
ICVs are special vehicles of a very specific type with special computer technology, such as a dedicated server and supervisor room, which are designed and built by a qualified company with expertise in special vehicle construction. Norrenbrock-Technik is such a specialist company
