Warning Systems for Government, Education, and Private Industry
Alerting Solutions, Inc. (ASI) customers include a wide range of organizations, including: State, County, and City Government, Public Education, Military, Broadcasters, Refineries, and other organizations. Let us introduce you to just a few of them:
Mexico Earthquake Alert
Life saving system, where seconds counts! Read the Evolution of the Mexican Seismic Alert System article by Dr. J. M. Espinosa Aranda and his team (resouces on the right).
State of California
Operated by the Governor's Office of Emergency Services, the Emergency Digital Information Service (EDIS) is the nation's first statewide warning system to use the Common Alerting Protocol. Through EDIS, California state, federal, and local agencies can post messages that are delivered to subscribers over email, pagers, SMS, desktop pop-ups, and other means. The State's Emergency Alert System of broadcasters and cable systems can be activated using EDIS, which can provide both recorded and text-to-speech content for broadcast. EDIS also has a two-way link to the National Weather Service and NOAA Weather Radio. Public subscription to EDIS is available free at edis-by-email.net. (You can see a scrolling RSS EDIS feed on our home page).
Contra Costa County Community Warning System
This award-winning system was created to provide warnings to residents living near oil refineries along San Francisco Bay in Contra Costa County. While that is still its primary purpose, the system has been expanded to provide all-hazards warning. Operated by the Contra Costa Sheriff's Office, the system includes more than 40 outdoor warning sirens and can send warnings via email, pager, SMS, Telephone Emergency Notification System, the Emergency Alert System, and other means. A map-based interface allows precise warnings of affected areas.
Israeli Military In order to train its soldiers in a realistic environment, the State of Israel has created a mock village covering roughly four square miles of a remote desert area. There, soldiers participate in "live fire" excercises--real firearms, real ammunition--and an Alerting Solutions system is used to control the exercises.
ASI's high-power speaker stations allow commanders to give verbal orders to troops that can be heard above the noise of the exercise. Each speaker station is fitted with a television camera, giving commanders the ability to see how an exercise unfolds. Access to the speaker system is over the base telephone system, offering extreme ease-of-use.
The facility is divided into six adjoining zones, which can be used simultaneously by different warrior groups. Because each needs to be controlled individually, ASI designed a system with minimum sound overlap between zones, which can be addresses individually, in groups, or all at once.
Refineries
ASI provides, monitors, and maintains warning public address at three large refinery complexes such as Shell, ConocoPhillips and Chevron. These systems are engineered to provide extreme easy of activation, yet provide enough information to trigger an off-site warning if one is required. Together, these systems employ many high power speaker stations, placed to provide optimum coverage in high-noise areas of the facilities. They can be activated by guards and other workers using touchscreen displays.
Anguilla National Warning System
The island nation of Anguilla, in the Eastern Caribbean, selected ASI to design, develop software for, and supervise installation of a new warning system that makes use of broadcast radio, data-over-radio, and desktop pop-ups. The system, used for internal, interest group (tourism, etc.), and public notification, uses a single message created using our AlertNET technology to drive all these warning devices.
San Mateo County
ASI provides several warning tools, including a new tsunami warning system, to this California county. Tsunami warnings are sounded by a system of nine warning sirens. We also manage the county's Telephone Emergency Notification System (TENS) and other warning systems.
These are just a few of our recent and ongoing projects. We are happy to provide detailed references upon request.
