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GUEST COLUMNIST-BRIAN DAVIS
Communicating with Citizens and Staff in Seconds- The Next Wave of Outbound-911 Technology
9/11. Bin Laden. North Korea. Hurricane Rita, Hurricane Katrina, wildfires, flooding, mud slides, the list goes on and on.
Our country no longer lives in a time of "mom and apple pie." Not even close. In fact, the only fruit discussed around the dinner table these days is usually orange (as in "Level Orange"), and yet, according to several recent U.S. News and World Report survey, most cities are sub-par when it comes to emergency communications for both staff and citizens.
A company out of Ormond Beach, FL, (Emergency Communications Network) has developed a web-based technology suite to assist cities nationwide with critical communications. Over 750 cities in the United States are now covered under the CodeRED and Weather Warning umbrella. Some of these cities include Austin, TX, St. Paul, MN, Orlando, FL, Ventura, CA, and Fargo, ND.
CodeRED is a high-speed emergency notification tool that can literally launch thousands of phone calls per second to home, business, cell, and VOIP phones, as well as text and email messages. Weather Warning is a separate product that is tied to a national weather satellite feed and will automatically launch calls to the immediately affected storm areas (including hurricane, tornado, hail, winter storm, flash flood, etc.).
CodeRED and Weather Warning are extremely affordable for both small and large communities. If you need to evacuate an area, issue a shelter in-place notice, prepare for a weather emergency, search for a missing child, or notify every convenience store in town of an armed robbery, CodeRED's patented, web-enabled technology can deliver the message at record speed.
It is the most advanced emergency notification system on the market today. And, we all know that speed and accuracy aren't just a convenience - they can be a matter of life and death. CodeRED has recovered over 150 missing children in 2007.
ECN requires no setup fees, and there's no equipment to purchase. You create and maintain the call lists you need online, starting with initial access to a database of 140 million US households. You can even contact cell phones and pagers!
ECN is also the only notification vendor who has launched over 1.8 million phone calls in one day (and 6 million calls in one week).
For more information, please contact:
Brian Davis
214-476-3430
smartgov@sbcglobal.net
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