Emergency alerts through SMS
- By ravinder malik
- Published 05/5/2008
Wireless access
to email, phone and other critical content is not an extravagance for today’s
mobile users — it is a necessity, especially when community safety is
involved. When emergency events occur in
a community, such as shootings and lockdowns on campus and in buildings, there
is an urgent need for the broadcast and delivery of emergency alerts through SMS to
community members within minutes, if not seconds. Such emergency notification requires urgent
broadcasts of point-to-multipoint messages.
The Amika
Mobility Server (AMS) provides a text message-based alert broadcasting system
for campus, city, or geographically distributed areas, sending critical public
safety information to communities within seconds or minutes. Alerts are
transmitted via SMS (TXT), to any
SMS-enabled mobile device. Reach anyone or everyone, regardless of
their mobile device preference. In addition, the AMS provides your community’s
users with motivation to maintain their own data as they change numbers and
providers. The AMS acts as an email assistant, constantly monitoring any of a
user’s mailboxes for user-defined “critical mail”, sending a summarized version
to their mobile devices within minutes of arrival.
The AMS is a
fully scalable server that can be customized to meet the needs of any size
organization or enterprise. Its emergency broadcast alerting capability can
save lives during a crisis when information must be transmitted quickly to
small or large groups on a campus.
The Amika Mobility
Server links content on wireless devices, campus or enterprise applications and
wireless networks. Designed to meet the needs of the campus or enterprise, it
provides a proven, secure, open architecture for globally extending alerts or
critrical corporate email alerts to mobile
users. Companies can obtain up-to-date information on customer interactions,
inventories, sales, accounts, tracking, etc. Organizations can quickly notify
students and/or employees of vital
information involving lockdowns, or other
critical alerts.
With the Amika
Mobility Server delivering critical emergency alerts and critical corporate
content, mobile users can make timely decisions based on the best information
available, ensuring their safety, increasing their productivity, and boosting
business performance. The Server allows
mobile users to have integrated access to the enterprise using their existing
mobile handsets, thereby extending the reach of valuable mobile capability to
all employees - not just those using smartphones.
Feature
Resulting Benefits
·
Broadcast Emergency Alerts
·
Deliver via email or SMS
·
Supports ALL mobile
devices
·
No client installation
required
·
Monitors multiple
mailboxes for user
·
New email are summarized
to SMS
·
Leverage low cost carrier
services
·
Simple installation (ANY
hardware)
·
Linux OS
Ø 24 hour emergency connectivity
Ø Target users’ preferred mobile devices
Ø Full coverage of community
Ø No technology barrier
Ø Users motivated to maintain accounts
Ø Optimizes display for mobile screen
Ø Lowest cost solution
Ø Low Total Cost of Ownership
Ø Stable, low risk platform
Amika
Mobile's team is recognized as pioneering real-time wireless email and
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