The Early Warning Network

The Early Warning Network (EWN) is seeking to partner with individuals or businesses in the U.S. and globally. EWN will exclusively license its system and network to approved partners covering specific territories. No investment of capital or purchase of any equipment is required.

EWN is a multi-channel ALERT system that provides users  of the system the ability to instantly and simultaneously broadcast alerts and notifications to individuals, groups, or person/s within a specific area over multiple communication mediums. The system is geographically aware. This means those people needing the information, get it. Messages can be sent sensitive to physical locations (name, street, postcode, town or map location) or any other grouping type the authority designates. The Graphical Information System provides administrators the ability to draw a target area over detailed mapping to send a notification via several methodologies. Messages can then be sent across one or more of the channels described:
• Desktop ALERT™
• Mobile via SMS /pagers
• Phone
• email
• Web - alerts/notifications are automatically posted to a web page

No software needs to be installed and administrators and staff can be set up and operational within a matter of minutes. The system is being used successfully in Australia and the attached Administrators Guide describes how the system is currently deployed there. In addition the users guide for Desktop ALERT™ is attached here. EWN is multilingual and through EWN's partnership with Google the system is now available world wide and partners are sort in the following countries and regions:

New Zealand
Pacific Islands
South Africa
Canada
United Kingdom
France
Germany
Norway
Sweden
Spain
Italy
Belgium
Malaysia/Thai/etc
United States
China
South Korea
Pakistan
India
Taiwan
Japan
Russia
Indonesia
Singapore
South America

Should you wish to find out more email me at kerry@waspz.com, phone 61 7 55904173 or mobile 0403147197

Here in Australia we have partnered with Australia’s largest car/home insurer to provide the system to their members with the insurer acting as a sponsor so that anyone can use it. We are working with  police, federal and state governments, councils and water/energy utilities. 

The Australian Early Warning Network (EWN) offers free use of its multi channel, GIS based notification network for critical and emergency alerts. This is a world class system which EWN is offering for free - like Google we make money from sponsors and advertising (But users will have to pay monthly usage of the system for notifications of other types - burst water mains, power outages etc).

Amongst many other emergency scenarios, EWN currently tracks severe weather events and uses the system to alert residents directly in the path of a storm with potential for hail, flash flooding or damaging winds. People can elect to receive alerts via mobile phone, pager, email and desktopALERT™, many thousands have already registered and more join each day. EWN have sent out tens of thousands of alerts via SMS and even more through its desktopALERT™ system.


 

EWN offers authorities the opportunity to access and use the system free in emergencies. When people register to receive alerts (Which is free to the public), their location is fixed via latitude and Longitude. The example above illustrates how our EWN Alert Managers draw the projected path of a hail or severe storm event, it could be any shape and a radius tool is available as well for bomb threats, chemical/terrorist etc). Once the area is selected, everyone registered in that area will be alerted. Likewise, authorized council personnel can use the system in the same way. (Note this is small excerpt which changes depending on the recipient.)

There are numerous other commercial opportunities and the list is pretty endless. Other examples in Australia might be:

Hospitals – staff communications
Newspapers/media (Present local news thru DEsktopALERT – revenue from advertising)
Unions ie public service,etc to communicate withy members
activist/special interest groups
Defence
Airlines/Aviation/transport
Dept of Agriculture - ie horse flu pandemic
Football and sports clubs (Major league clubs)
Temporary travel coverage
Establishment of local business directories accessed from DesktopALERT including local news. DesktopALERT knows where the member is.
Banks and financial institutions
etc. etc.

When we add the GPS tracking (Which is just a discussion with Nokia and others to connect to their network) to alert people on the move, this will open up a whole new ball game.