NOAA weather radios, rely largely on "cold war" technology.
Developed fifty years ago, long before the modern "Information Revolution", sirens,
broadcast media and weather radio announcements can’t always warn the vulnerable fast
enough.
As we all learned on September 11, some warnings are too slow.
And as we also learned on September 11, some warnings are too general.
Today there are several commonly used public warning methods:
- Broadcast media
- Outdoor sirens
- NOAA weather radio
- Telephone ring down systems
- Extended caller ID
- Belt pagers (used by the hearing impaired)
- E-mail notification
Unfortunately, today's warning methods lack critical features demanded by emergency
managers and needed by the public.
As a solution, Alert Systems Inc., developed and patented a digital public safety
communications solution solving the public warning problem described by the Working
Group. Our EMAlert System is all about public safety communications - it gets the right
information from the right source and delivers it to the right people at the right time so
everyone makes the right decisions.
Based upon commonly agreed statistics, EMAlert could save thousands of lives and
billions of dollars otherwise lost to natural and man made disasters, including terrorist
activities.
After much research the studies conclude...
