Alert Residents and Visitors

Critical situations like severe weather and criminal activity require information to be shared quickly and effectively with residents no matter how they choose to receive information. Engage residents through multiple contact paths based off their geo-coded locations.

Notification systems can be powerful tools for sharing critical information with your communities; however, Emergency Managers and PIOs are challenged with getting their population opted in to receiving messages. See various examples of how agencies have used marketing and advertisements to draw attention and awareness to their notification solutions, ultimately resulting in an increased subscriber base.

When severe weather strikes, communication between emergency managers, emergency responders, search and rescue teams, and the general population can be the key to life or death. Severe weather moves quickly and requires automated outreach when residents need to take shelter or evacuate quickly, relying on a manual approach is not nearly as effective.

Disasters don’t respect lines on a map. Cities, counties and states need a better way to share information and cover more residents at less cost. When jurisdictions share a single notification system, they can more effectively respond to incidents and generate significant cost savings without losing individual autonomy. Local authorities can still manage their own notifications, but gain access to a larger source of intelligence, and can coordinate more closely with adjacent jurisdictions.

Regardless of the size or severity of events your municipality will face – the fact remains you will face events every year. When preparing for any event it is vital to create and conduct training drills. While it would be impossible to train for every kind of incident, it is important to at least test your team. Training drills will help prepare your organization through practice and uncover any areas in need of improvement. It can also help you understand the impact if anything in your process goes wrong. 

The lack of advanced warnings of where a wildfire spreads means you must be able to gather, assess, and distribute information in real time. However, using separate systems to manage risk, communications, and emergency management traps vital information within each system — and makes it more difficult to extract meaningful intelligence in a timely manner. Plus, human beings do not have the capacity to monitor and analyze all the possible internal and external data sources that reveal growing and shifting threats to your citizens – let alone do it fast enough to plot on a geospatial map in real-time while a crisis is unfolding.