AUSTRALIA GOES LIVE WITH EVERBRIDGE-POWERED PUBLIC WARNING PLATFORM COUNTRYWIDE

Australia Successfully Goes Live With Everbridge Public Warning Platform Countrywide (Graphic: Business Wire)

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 5 (Bernama) -- Everbridge Inc, the global leader in critical event management (CEM) and national Public Warning solutions, has confirmed the Australian Government officially launched its new Emergency Alert population warning system, powered by Everbridge.

According to a statement, all Australian states and territories are now live on Everbridge Public Warning following a comprehensive project deployment period.

Vice President of Australia, New Zealand & Oceania at Everbridge, Steve Foster said: “With no opting in or app download required, Everbridge’s Public Warning platform delivers emergency alerts to at-risk populations on a nationwide scale to help keep Australian residents and visitors, when borders reopen, safe during bushfires and other critical events.”

Home to more than 25 million residents and nine million annual visitors (upon borders re-opening), Australia first introduced its Emergency Alert system in 2009 in response to a series of deadly bushfires.

In need of continuing to modernise the service, Australia selected Everbridge’s market leading, software-as-a-service (SaaS) Public Warning platform to enable each state and territory – and their regional authorities – to leverage the platform to alert their local citizens and visitors, support first responder communications, and analyse disaster communication effectiveness for subsequent mitigation activities.

Following two years of testing across all Australian states and territories, the Australian Government has successfully gone live with its next-generation population warning system to enable police, fire, and emergency services to alert communities to a likely or actual emergency.

In the event of a critical situation, such as bushfire, flood, cyclone, extreme heat, or terror attack, Australia’s emergency services will send location-based text messages to mobile phones and voice messages to landlines within a precise geo-targeted area, while integrating with social media platforms.

The Australia emergency alerting system implementation expands on Everbridge’s position as the global leader in population-wide Public Warning solutions used by over 1,500 municipalities, counties, cities, states and countries in every major region of the world including Europe, Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas.

Everbridge will join Australian Government officials this week to discuss the national alerting system and Public Warning best practices at the Australian Disaster Resilience Conference and at the AFAC21 Virtual Conference & Exhibition.

More details at www.everbridge.com.

-- BERNAMA