The value that society places on Emergency Notification Systems continues to grow in importance with each national and international incident. These incidents include terrorism, natural events such as earthquakes, hurricanes and volcanoes, shooters on campus or at political events and even flash mobs. Requirements for situational awareness continue to grow. Current capabilities are useful as alerts. These include audible pings to desktops and laptops, text messages to mobile phones, tweets, community sirens and programmable highway displays.
Recent state-of-the-art advances in Emergency Notification Systems are significantly expanding the real time capability to deliver audio and visual context to first responders as well as virtual support services. Enhanced comprehension results in more effective collaboration. This session will review all current technology solutions for Emergency Notification Systems and will select a few in a live, simulated environment.
Learning Points:
- Better understand the function and purpose of an Emergency Notification System.
- Ability to describe the key technological advances in the use of SmartPhones and Social Media for Emergency Notification Systems.
- How the situational awareness and response time can be improved by using an advanced Emergency Notification System.