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City of Boston bolsters emergency preparedness
The Genasys platform will allow the City to send emergency notifications to specific geographic areas and citizen lists through single or multiple channels.
The City of Boston has announced it has deployed a new protective communications platform to upgrade its emergency preparedness and communication.
Replacing an existing mass notification system, the Genasys Protect system is intended to keep residents and some 23 million visitors annually informed about city infrastructure updates and improvements and help protect them against severe weather-related and other critical events.
Real-time critical collaboration
According to Genasys, Protect breaks down the barrier between stakeholders, constituents, and employees by providing one platform that allows for real-time critical collaboration between all departments and the community through a unified, customisable, cloud-based dashboard, reporting, and notification system.
The company claims the proposed solution will allow the City of Boston to send emergency and non-emergency notifications to specific geographic areas, citizen lists and staff through single- or multiple communication channels, in a quick and effective manner.
“Our mission is to save lives with tools that help communities and first responders effectively plan, communicate, and coordinate before, during, and after critical events”
By bridging the communications and planning gaps between emergency managers, police, fire, and the community, Genasys Protect empowers them with the following capabilities:
- Precise zoning of communities: Boston Emergency teams can map out precise geographic neighbourhoods within their jurisdiction and have the command and control functions to modify specific areas and segments to prioritise them during notifications and evacuations
- Unified operating picture: distilling simplicity from complexity, first responders benefit from real-time data feeds, aggregated trusted data from National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration, unified into a single command and control system that emergency response personnel can share
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- Targeted multi-channel alert saturation: emergency managers can blanket response zones with location-appropriate messaging to inform or evacuate people out of harm’s way quickly and efficiently with context and geography-specific messaging. Pre-established notification channels and notification alerts ensure the right people get the right message, simultaneously delivering notifications across personal devices, media platforms (TV, radio, and social media), and installed or proprietary devices
- One platform for all critical communications and evacuation management: Genasys is also the only vendor to offer a dynamic evacuation management platform that integrates with mass notification.
“Our mission is to save lives with tools that help communities and first responders effectively plan, communicate, and coordinate before, during, and after critical events,” said Richard Danforth, CEO, Genasys.
“We are proud to offer reliable and modern technology to respond to any crises with direct collaboration between agencies, jurisdictions, enterprises and states. With the City of Boston and the Boston Red Sox using the same common planning and response technology, Boston residents and visitors benefit from their collective expertise and have the latest updates direct from an authoritative source through the Genasys solution.”
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