Posts Tagged ‘emergency alerts’

• Is Your Mass Notification System Working Correctly?

  • September 7th, 2012
  • Posted in ARK Systems, Mass Notification Systems
  • Tags: ARK Systems, cell phone carriers, college mass notification system, emergency alerts, emergency messaging systems, Higher Education Act of 2008, mass emergency alerts, mass emergency messages, mass notification system, university mass notification system

  Reports have been coming in about cell phone providers effecting mass notification systems at colleges and universities.  Major cell phone carriers such as Sprint and Verizon are marking mass notification messages as spam. They are disabling or denying such messages… Read More

• Wireless Emergency Alerts: A New Nationwide Text Emergency Alert System

  • August 9th, 2012
  • Posted in Security Trends
  • Tags: ARK Systems, emergency alerts, local emergencies, national emergencies, National Weather Service, severe weather alerts, SMS Text Alerting, text alerts, WEA, wireless emergency alerts

  The key to surviving severe weather is early warning. That is why America’s wireless industry is rolling out Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), a new nationwide text emergency alert system that connects users with NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS), FEMA, the… Read More

• Google Public Alerts

  • February 17th, 2012
  • Posted in ARK Systems, Public Alerts, Security Trends
  • Tags: Alert Hub, ARK Systems, CAP message, Common Alerting Protocol (CAP 1.2) standard, earthquakes, emergency alerts, evere weather, Facebook, Flooding Maryland, Google, Google Enters Public Alerting Arena, Google Maps, Google Public Alerts, Google search results, integrated feeds, local public safety officials, NOAA, not-for-profit Crisis Response division, public safety, Steps to Participate in Google Public Alerts, Subscribe alerts, the National Weather Service, the US Geological Survey, Twitter, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USGS

  In late January, Google’s not-for-profit Crisis Response division announced the release of its new emergency alerting platform, Google Public Alerts. The platform is designed to bring relevant emergency alerts – severe weather, public safety, earthquakes, tornados, and more – to… Read More