Emergency Alert Action and Response System

The bushfire tragedy recently experienced in Victoria has made many communities around Australia more open to technologies often at little cost that can be implemented and save lives.
The EAARS system is an example of one of these solutions that can save lives in times of emergency.

Overview

This system is the next generation ONLINE TWO-WAY bulk SMS text database communication and reporting system. It is available for emergency services to activate in the effective management of SMS communication and SMS record keeping functions during emergency and evacuation situations.

Send and receive messages easily with no new hardware costs and or purchases.

EAARS enables any participants to use existing technologies such as hand held computers or mobile online phones to rapidly communicate with any person with a mobile phone and receive collated bulk responses.

It is a low cost easily implemented solution to rapidly communication via existing hardware systems with two-way ability for recipients to respond in a matter of seconds.

A versatile online two-way SMS communication system that is designed for emergency SMS communications but also functions in areas such as person and or group mobilisation and community specific communications.

Benefits

THE EMERGENCY BULK COMMUNICATION SMS SYSTEM EAARS HAS EXCLUSIVE TANGIBLE BENEFITS THAT CAN SAVE LIVES SOLVING EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS:

    * Bushfires and hot weather policy applications

    * Pandemic event communications eg Swine Flu

    * Terrorist Threat and community lockdowns

EAARS is a new online communication technology that integrates two-way bulk SMS text messaging and offsite online database systems analysis for activation, individual message receipt confirmation and individual action response reporting.

Application Example 1

Principal Conradi Norton Summit School was quoted saying, ”This was the smoothest mock evacuation in the history of the school. We had parents here within a few minutes”. More importantly the principle said, ”The level of relaxation with the pupils was vastly improved, no doubt because the pupils knew that their parents were communicating with the school using the new EAARS system”.

Emergency Manager Tanya Frohloff observed that there was only one phone call to the school office during the trial evacuation. Tanya said, “During previous mock emergency drills the schools phone system was overwhelmed”.

The foundation of the patented technology is the ability to store individual SMS messages in an online database and provide real time reporting of individual responses.

The system solves several problems for the emergency manager who needs to know that targeted groups have received bulk-warning messages and have acted or not acted using the desired responses.

School or Community Centre Evacuation

How would EAARS work in the case of a school evacuation emergency?

On the realisation of a school emergency along side the activation of the emergency siren the emergency officer would send a bulk prerecorded SMS message via EAARS to all parents that there is an emergency and if they are able to evacuate their child from the predetermined evacuation site. A bulk SMS message is activated using a single online prompt by the school emergency manager from any PC or mobile PC device. Each individual parent receives an SMS text message on their mobile phone. In a hypothetical example 850 out of a parent population of 900 respond with a SMS text message indicating that they can meet at the pre-assigned meeting location within 15 minutes. This is displayed in collated form on the emergency manager's PC, 50 parents respond with different action responses indicating that they cannot collect their children on this occasion within this time frame for some reason. The manager has the option to review and send this information immediately on its receipt and develop an action plan based on the information received to deal with the remining children that need to be evacuated.

    * ONLINE real time online database PC to Mobile to PC reporting and communication

    * ONLINE collated reports direct to your email 24 / 7

    * ONLINE instant ability to communicate through user friendly personalised bulk functions

Designed for schools wanting to streamline their communication options using the latest time saving technology, all from the ease of a computer at the touch of a button.

The system provides instant effective direct communication and reporting during urgent times of need such as emergencies and evacuations.

EAARS is activated from any computer from which a single personalised SMS message can be sent to any number of recipients.

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On receipt of these messages the recipients can reply. Managers have the ability to access these replies and create printable lists and reports to account for each message sent and the reply.

Application Example 2

Mobilisation of teams such as Country Fire fighters and or Emergency Groups.

In the example where a team of firefighting volunteers is required in an emergency the EAARS system can provide a rapid means of mobilisation and confirmation of this mobilisation in a matter of minutes.

Country Fire Service Volunteer Coordination.

How would EAARS work in the case of a country bush fire?

A team coordinator in the field is alerted of an emergency and quickly picks up a laptop computer or in the office goes to any computer online and log into the EAARS website.

In a matter of seconds from here the manager can send out personalised text messages to the teams and or individuals required.

On receipt of the messages by the team members they are able to reply if they are available to attend to the emergency.

These confirmations are received by the emergency manager as a collated list which is able to be sent via email to any other interested parties as for example the emergency managers up line or coordinator.

In the event that one or some of the fire fighters are not available then the emergency manager can resend another set of messages to the stand-by people or choose another list or other listed individuals.

In this manner the fight fighting team is not left waiting for other firefighters to arrive and know from the replies that fire fighters that can attend have confirmed that they are available and on their way.

The firefighter coordinator can feel reassured that the team will arrive as a complete team and be able to attend the their duties.

Immediate Feedback

Immediate benefits of the EAARS applications:

    * Send instant messages to recipients and receive online feedback as part of an   emergency strategy

    * Calm and inform the community with news releases

    * Inform and coordinate the community and emergency services

    * Collect and evaluate information received

    * Have a documented record of actions taken with every individual involved

    * Develop and review and or accountable due diligence reports from the feedback

    * Peace of mind for recipients and responsible persons

    * Have in place fast efficient informative cooperative safety considerations for evacuees

How does it work?

Recipients are immediately alerted via SMS messages to their mobile phones, individualised and all at once from the same one base message transmitted from an online computer.

The SMS responses are sent directly back to the online computer where they are up dated every 10 seconds. You can have a report emailed to you at any time making it an easy and time saving diligent method to send SMS, record SMS and collate SMS responses.

Summary

How would EAARS work in the case of a emergency?]

The Emergency Alert Action response system EAARS is adaptable to a range of uses.

    * The coordination of volunteers and professionals

    * Emergencies: in the case of an emergency and when contact is needed as a matter of particular urgency such as approaching dangers from terrorism, bushfires, cyclones etc.

    * Mock and or emergency school or university drill applications.

    * Crisis Management: as feedback from events that have occurred.

    * Requests: as reminders or requests for transport and or other assistance.

    * Rewards: as incentives and acknowledgement of efforts, achievements and performances.

    * Messages: as a reminder for meetings, conferences or special management and or rostering arrangements. Or for an endless number of applications.

You will benefit and save using the EAARS feature! Here is a technology that is able to instantly contact every recipient, individual and or group with a personalised SMS message all in one action.

No need for you to search through records and or dial up any numbers.

Once EAARS is activated you simply enter the names of recipients, associates, infact anyone you want to send an SMS message to and the technology does the rest directly from your computer. Have peace of mind that there is a record of communications made and the replies received throughout an event.

You will be able to receive replies and or feedback in collated reports that are printable.

Be part a safer informed environment.

Credits are easily purchased on the website or by contacting our customer service centres or faxing back our special Application Form which can be easily downloaded from our website.

Contact Details

Peter Cap BSc Grad Dip T

Principal Executive

EAARS

Smsinbulk Pty Ltd

P: 1300123767 or 1300123SMS

P: 0883837300

F: 0883837306

E: admin@eaars.net

W http://www.eaars.net/

Victorian Emergency Specialist

Jonathan Campbell B Ed 0421032590

New South Wales Emergency Specialist

Robert Finn 0439617608

Queensland Emergency Specialist

Sharleen Cap 0425207509

To find out more visit the website www.eaars.net and or www.smsinbulk.com or our international partner www.eaars.info for more details or email admin@eaars.net or call +61883837300.

EAARS ..........the calm in the crisis