GIS Application for Geotargeted Emergency Alerting in MassAlert TM Solution Egidijus Šilanskas, NT Service www.massalert.eu UAB NT Service 2013 1
What is Emergency Alerting? Emergency Alerting by using Public warning systems (PWS) is needed to protect the lives and property of people in case of threat or emergency situations: Natural disasters man-made disasters epidemics. Most widely used Emergency Alerting systems: Electric sirens; Radio and TV broadcast. www.massalert.eu UAB NT Service 2013 2
Does Emergency Alerting Requires any Improvements? Do you hear sirens during national PWS test? Do you know how many siren tones are used in your country and what is their meaning? How much time do you spend in front of TV / Radio? www.massalert.eu UAB NT Service 2013 3
Mobile Device the Most Suitable Alerting Channel? Everyone has it; It is with us almost 24h a day; Networks covers almost 100% of territory. www.massalert.eu UAB NT Service 2013 4
What is the Role for GIS? MassAlert User Interface Warning message creating, targeting, monitoring and user administration features Network data ArcGIS Government Data www.massalert.eu UAB NT Service 2013 5
Example of Implemented Mass Alert System www.massalert.eu UAB NT Service 2013 6
Mass Alert System Interface Featured GUI interface, which includes: Integrated Geographical Information System for selection and analysis of geographical area ; User interface for managing of multilingual warning messages; Administrator interface for managing user rights and monitoring system status. www.massalert.eu UAB NT Service 2013 7
GIS Interface of Alert System Country map in various scales; Tool for fast search of address or GPS coordinate; Tool for selecting area of incident. Identification of hazardous sites within selected area. www.massalert.eu UAB NT Service 2013 8
GIS Interface of Alert System Administrative division into regions and municipalities; Access for municipality users according to predefined user rights; Limitation for municipality users to work only in own municipality. www.massalert.eu UAB NT Service 2013 9
GIS Interface of Alert System Information on map managed by layer, which can be highlighted or disabled; Possibility to view all incidents; www.massalert.eu UAB NT Service 2013 10
User Interface of Alert System Interface for creating multilingual messages; Templates for predefined messages; Message status monitoring features. www.massalert.eu UAB NT Service 2013 11
MASS ALERT System GSM / UMTS Mobile Internet Cell Broadcast technology implemented in most mobile handsets Mobile client software installed on smartphones and tablets Internet Emergency notification software installed on PC Centralized Management of Early Warning and Emergency Information TETRA IP GSM TV / Radio Electronic sirens could be activated and managed via various access networks as option Emergency notification interruption into TV & Radio broadcast as future option www.massalert.eu UAB NT Service 2013 12
Communication Channel - Cell Broadcast Main advantage usage of dedicated signaling channels, what allows: Sending notification without interfering capacity of legacy services (voice calls, SMS, data, etc.) Sending notification even in congested networks it takes few minutes to broadcast message to whole network; CellBroadcast is standard functionality of GSM / UMTS networks specified in 3GPP TS 23.041 One way broadcast (from network to handset) to all subscribers within the area eliminates subscriber privacy issue; All handsets within the broadcast area receive CBS if such feature is activated on the device; Flexibility of selecting various areas, basing on municipality or any other criteria; Various languages and text encodings could be used for emergency messaging. www.massalert.eu UAB NT Service 2013 13
Communication Channel - WebService Two types of application: Emergency notification of subscribers (smartphones and PCs); Pushing of emergency information to other mass communication media (WEB portals and etc.). Advantages of WebService: One of the most used communication technologies ; Subscribers download information as soon as it becomes available on server; Devices download emergency notification if it is valid for the region they subscribe; Graphical information could be sent to WebService client along with text; Various languages and text encodings could be used for emergency messaging; System could grow in order to serve very high request loads. www.massalert.eu UAB NT Service 2013 14
International experience on using Cell Broadcast Implemented in many countries as commercial service and proven as optimal media for warning messages; Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) service is implemented in USA as Commercial Mobile Alert Service (CMAS); EU-Alert implementation is in progress in several countries in Europe: Lithuania was the first in EU to launch system in October 2012 Netherlands launched NL-Alert in November 2012; Most of EU countries signed memorandum of understanding regarding actions towards adopting EU-Alert as the emergency service; Japan has broadcast based earthquake and tsunami warning system (ETWS) operating for several years already. www.massalert.eu UAB NT Service 2013 15
Thank You! silanskas@ntservice.eu www.massalert.eu www.massalert.eu UAB NT Service 2013 16