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Everbridge for Statewide Public Safety
Imagine being able to communicate and collaborate with every state agency, county, city, and PSAP at a moment’s notice when disaster strikes. What if you could take that one step further and alert every citizen to imminent danger wherever they are—at home, at work, picking up their children from school, or buying groceries for dinner—all using one system?
Everbridge makes your vision a reality. Everbridge for Statewide Public Safety enables you to communicate statewide in minutes via all contact methods, such as mobile phones, landlines, email, text messaging, instant messaging, pagers, and more. The Everbridge system provides a true interoperable communications platform for improved emergency response. States can safeguard the health and welfare of citizens, prevent panic, and mobilize first responders to a higher state of readiness all with one system.
How Everbridge Helps States
- One system for statewide communication. Mobilize state, county, and city resources and communicate with citizens using one system statewide, leading to improved public safety, better collaboration and resource-sharing. and cost savings.
- Rapid and reliable location-based communication. Communicate rapidly and reliably to people based on their location. As an incident progresses and shifts location, Everbridge gives you the ability to identify and contact those in its path.
- Improved emergency response and management. Plan and quickly enact emergency communications. Streamline and accelerate team mobilization, deployment, and on-the-ground coordination of crisis management and disaster recovery teams, local emergency managers, state agencies, volunteers, officials, and federal agency resources with efficient and accurate outreach capabilities.
- Continuity of operations. Meet Continuity of Government (COG) and Continuity of Operations (COOP) requirements. Sustain critical communications internally and externally over prolonged periods to resolve and recover from the incident expeditiously. Prevent the spread of misinformation and rumors through proactive, ongoing communications.
- Communications compliance and reporting. Satisfy National Preparedness Plan, NIMS, Homeland Security Target Capabilities, and other compliance requirements through automated notifications, real-time confirmations, and extensive audit trail reporting.
- Hard cost savings. Achieve volume discounts. Leveraging the benefits of cloud computing, Everbridge requires no internal IT resources, no hardware or telephony, and no support or maintenance costs.
- Productivity gains. Lower procurement costs by reducing RFP requirements. Free up resources to perform critical tasks during emergencies.
Citizen Protection and Life Safety
- Public safety alerts. Rapidly notify citizens about severe weather, wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes, crime, missing persons, power outages, gas leaks, chemical spills, and more.
- Disaster-tracking communications. Communicate rapidly and reliably to citizens based on their location and the progression of an incident.
- Public health emergencies. Sustain communications throughout public health emergencies, such as H1N1. Provide safety and prevention tips, symptom information, vaccine logistics (locations, times, follow-up shot reminders), and more.
- Evacuations. Manage evacuations, provide shelter-in-place guidance, and issue status updates and re-entry instructions. Include maps and other important documentation as attachments to the message.
Interoperability for Emergency Response and Management
- First-responder mobilization. Mobilize response and recovery organizations. Alert other government agencies and coordinate resource-sharing efforts.
- Response team management. Notify and assemble emergency response teams. Use quota notifications to determine people resource availability and polling for reporting times. Leverage conference calls to brief the team and determine next steps.
- Interagency briefings. Coordinate briefings with state agencies, county services, PSAPs, and city officials using on-the-fly conference calling.
- Situation updates. Provide ongoing status updates as an incident progresses and is resolved.
- Rumor control. Prevent the spread of misinformation and rumors through proactive, ongoing communications.
Continuity of Operations
- Compliance. Comply with the National Preparedness Plan, NIMS, and Homeland Security Target Capabilities, including citizen evacuation and shelter-in-place protection, emergency public information and warning, and more.
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Geographically targeted communications
Everbridge’s easy-to-use, interactive map interface lets you pick precisely the area you want to notify. Send messages to people located in a specific geographical region defined by zip code, street address, radius from a specific point, or latitude/longitude. Specify a neighborhood or other location with Everbridge’s user-friendly drawing tools. Upload shape files from other applications for on-the-fly notifications to targeted geographic areas. Save frequently used shapes or incident-related areas for future or repeat use.
Visual intelligence
View locations important to your organization on the Everbridge map interface, such as the location of special needs populations, subscribers to specific alert types, fire districts, police stations, evacuation areas, and more. You may turn one or more layers on at once.
Interactive polling
Everbridge includes polling capabilities for surveying and data collection—perfect for activities such as response team reporting times, wellness checks, and employee accountability. Send notifications that include a multiple-choice question with up to nine different responses and collect data, such as alternate phone numbers.
Real-time tracking and reporting
Send thousands of voice and text messages in a matter of minutes. Everbridge assembles broadcast data in real-time to display compiled results in a clear, easy-to-read dashboard for quick and informed decision-making. Robust adhoc reporting enables you to perform post-incident analysis and review.
Everbridge SmartRegistration™
Imagine how much easier it would be to keep people safe if they told you how to contact them – at home, at work, in the car, and more – and what type of information they want to receive from you. The customizable Everbridge SmartRegistration portal enables people to provide the information you need, including how to reach them, which alerts they are interested in receiving, whether they have special needs, and more. You get more accurate contact information with none of the data management hassles and better information for sending meaningful, targeted messages.
Everbridge in Action
Connecticut leads U.S. with statewide rollout of Everbridge emergency notification systemIn 2009, the State of Connecticut was the first in the U.S. to have a statewide emergency notification system that allows officials to ensure continuity of communications across the state, spanning all municipalities, counties, cities, and towns. According to Governor M. Jodi Rell, “This is a major step forward for state and local governments in meeting their top responsibility: safeguarding the health and welfare of residents. Whatever the situation, the emergency alert system means far more people will ‘get the word’ far more quickly. The more information we are able to provide people the better they will be able to prepare and respond.”
Read the press release.
The State of New York established stringent criteria and examined multiple emergency notification system providers to ensure that contract awards would meet the discerning demands of authorized users. After a thorough and rigorous evaluation process, Everbridge was awarded a contract based on numerous factors, including leadership, technology, functionality, and vendor responsibility.
Read the press release.
Learn More:
- Read about Everbridge Aware® for internal and interagency communications.
- Learn more about Everbridge SmartGIS™ for map-based citizen alerting.
- Download a sample emergency notification system RFP template.
