WHY SEEMS GLOBAL IS NEEDED
2018 california wild fires
In 2018 California was ravaged by wildfires all over the state. The city of Paradise, California was totally levelled. The fires moved so quickly that people had little time to get to safety. Over 100 people died, more than 10,000 structures were destroyed causing $3.5B worth of damage.
77 radio and cellular towers burned down during the fires, cutting off radio, TV, Internet and cellular telephone services. Many people were not able to get warnings and instructions in time to help themselves. Homeowners, businesses, schools, churches, were not able to get the message. Often, the evacuation message came from a friend or neighbour, rather than official sources.
Of the small percentage of the Californian population that had signed up to receive emergency alerts, less than 30% of them ever received a message! It is time for a better more reliable way to alert hundreds, thousands or millions of people at the same time.
Introducing SEEMS, the Satellite Enhanced Emergency Messaging System.
Using a global network of communications satellites, SEEMS Global Network, Inc. has developed a state-of-the-art, compact, low-cost device to speak emergency alert messages when all ground communications have failed. The service is not dependent on any land-based radio towers or cable based communications in the event of a wild-fire, earthquake, hurricane, thunderstorm, tornado or other disaster situation. Alerts sent from official government emergency agencies can be targeted to those specific geographic areas affected by the event. Within seconds of an federal, state or local agency issuing an alert, hundreds, thousands or millions of people can be alerted to disaster conditions and given instructions to protect themselves.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), part of the Department of Homeland Security, has created a nationwide system to alert the public in the event of an emergency situation. Known as the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS), it was created to allow multiple alerting authorities to issue an alert, which is then distributed via multiple communication mechanisms, including AM and FM radio, TV, cell phones, Internet services, NOAA, and local state systems for signage, sirens and other means. The SEEMS system, using the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) v1.2, is fully compatible with the IPAWS system, and acts an Alert Disseminator.
But SEEMS is also available at the state level to provide the same reliable emergency voice-based alerting to targeted geographic areas from one end of the state to the other.
77 radio and cellular towers burned down during the fires, cutting off radio, TV, Internet and cellular telephone services. Many people were not able to get warnings and instructions in time to help themselves. Homeowners, businesses, schools, churches, were not able to get the message. Often, the evacuation message came from a friend or neighbour, rather than official sources.
Of the small percentage of the Californian population that had signed up to receive emergency alerts, less than 30% of them ever received a message! It is time for a better more reliable way to alert hundreds, thousands or millions of people at the same time.
Introducing SEEMS, the Satellite Enhanced Emergency Messaging System.
Using a global network of communications satellites, SEEMS Global Network, Inc. has developed a state-of-the-art, compact, low-cost device to speak emergency alert messages when all ground communications have failed. The service is not dependent on any land-based radio towers or cable based communications in the event of a wild-fire, earthquake, hurricane, thunderstorm, tornado or other disaster situation. Alerts sent from official government emergency agencies can be targeted to those specific geographic areas affected by the event. Within seconds of an federal, state or local agency issuing an alert, hundreds, thousands or millions of people can be alerted to disaster conditions and given instructions to protect themselves.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), part of the Department of Homeland Security, has created a nationwide system to alert the public in the event of an emergency situation. Known as the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS), it was created to allow multiple alerting authorities to issue an alert, which is then distributed via multiple communication mechanisms, including AM and FM radio, TV, cell phones, Internet services, NOAA, and local state systems for signage, sirens and other means. The SEEMS system, using the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) v1.2, is fully compatible with the IPAWS system, and acts an Alert Disseminator.
But SEEMS is also available at the state level to provide the same reliable emergency voice-based alerting to targeted geographic areas from one end of the state to the other.
