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Public warning resources to help governments worldwide tackle the coronavirus pandemic and meet EU regulations.
One platform | Multi-channel | Proven
Everbridge Public Warning is a unified platform for managing two-way communications with the public before, during and after major incidents such as the global COVID-19 pandemic and other natural or man-made disasters.
Everbridge combines powerful location intelligence with two-way multi-channel and multi-agency alerting capabilities to empower public authorities and the emergency services with the tools they need to keep people safe until things return to normal.
For over 18 years Everbridge has provided population alerting at local, regional and countrywide level and our platform is relied upon by over 3,700 public authorities across 13 countries and 66 states and territories. In 2019 the Everbridge platform sent 3.5 billion messages reaching 550 million people around the globe.
When a major incident occurs, who should you alert? In this video we look at 3 typical emergency scenarios and ask the question “Who should be alerted?” The first video in this 5 part best practises series considers the importance of communicating across all phases of incident: Plan, Alert, Respond, Recover.
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3 Scenarios for Public Warning
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Best Practices for Public Warning
Everbridge now deployed in all three mobile networks and used by The Norwegian Directorate for Health to reach entire mobile population of Norway
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New patent-pending, hybrid Public Warning System (PWS) combines Everbridge’s industry-leading, location-based mobile messaging with best cell broadcast offering to mitigate coronavirus for entire countries while exceeding European Union (EU) regulatory directive for 2022 mandate
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Peru win reinforces Everbridge’s Global Leadership in Population Alerting with Countrywide Contracts in the Americas, EMEA and APAC regions
read moreEverbridge Public Warning has been trusted and deployed by more national governments across the world than any other solution, including by Sweden, Singapore, the Netherlands, Iceland, Greece, Cambodia, and the coastal states in India.
Everbridge Public Warning takes advantage of the capabilities native to almost all cell phones and does not require any manual configuration by users or download of applications. It therefore has been documented to reach 90+% of populations in a target geography, versus 50% or less for alternative approaches such as cell broadcast or mobile apps.
Everbridge Public Warning can automatically detect the nationality of a person’s SIM card and then send messages in the appropriate language to improve the effectiveness of communication to visitors and international travelers. When a population at risk needs to be alerted, Everbridge Public Warning is the most reliable way to reach the most people.
Everbridge Public Warning allows you to seamlessly engage in 2-way communication with people to check on whether they are safe and to receive requests for assistance. People can simply respond to SMS messages or polls that you send. This level of engagement makes for a far more robust system for protecting people. The simple and unobtrusive nature of SMS technology, which has a sense of familiarity and reassurance for people can avoid panic during evacuations and other similar situations.
Everbridge Public Warning delivers not just alerting but also insight into population movements. You can see the total number of SIM cards in an area, and by extension the number of people, without any personally identifiable information, connected to a cell power at a specific time and whether they are still there at a later time. This information is available in the system before sending an alert.
By having visibility to the number of people in an area, you can make estimates of crowd sizes for planning purposes and deployment of emergency personnel. This feature also enables you to confirm, for example, whether you have successfully evacuated an area. You can also watch the movement flow of people over time to plan out resources needed along different routes as an event unfolds, or to plan for a future one.
Also, using the location-based group alerting feature, emergency management personnel present in a particular location can be identified and deployed effectively, based on their current location.
… One of the biggest storms in years was bearing down on Odisha … cyclone Fani slammed into Odisha on Friday morning with the force of a major hurricane, packing 120 mile per hour winds … as of early Saturday, only a few deaths had been reported, in what appeared to be an early-warning success story … moved a million people to safety really fast … this is so different from 20 years ago, when a fearsome cyclone blasted into this same area, killing thousands.
--How Do You Save a Million People From a Cyclone? Ask a Poor State in India, New York Times, May 3, 2019. Odisha uses Everbridge Population Warning.
Everbridge Public Warning includes full analytics and reporting so you can measure how many messages were sent in what modalities, deliverability rates, and notification confirmations. You can repeat messages or use different modalities to ensure you reach people.
Everbridge Public Warning offers proven reliability and scale, having served populations from a few thousand to many tens of millions. It is backed by the worldwide platform and resources of Everbridge, Inc., the industry’s only publicly traded (EVBG) company. The Everbridge platform was used to send 3 billion messages in 2018, and the company has more than 800 people across the globe. Everbridge’s R&D department is larger than most companies’ total staff in the critical event management market.
Residents and visitors in Sweden are now able to receive SMS notifications on their mobile phones if they reside within an area where sudden events such as fire, extreme weather or a terror attack occur. All mobile operators in Sweden can now send location-based SMS alerts provided by Everbridge with an “Important Message to the Public” from SOS Alarm, the system operator.
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Governments have a responsibility to take care of all people within its borders, and some of those most vulnerable populations are those who do not speak the native language, like immigrants and tourists. We can do better than cell broadcast technology, and it seems to me, that technology already exists.
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