AtHoc's Network-centric Emergency Alerting System Now Fielded in Forward Positions to Rapidly Warn Personnel about Enemy Arms Fire
BURLINGAME, Ca. --[Emergency Notification News]- (October 2, 2007) -- AtHoc, Inc., the leader in network-centric emergency notification systems, today announced AtHoc IWSAlerts™ has been deployed in Camp Slayer, Baghdad, Iraq for the purpose of force protection. The Multi-National Force-Iraq is using IWSAlerts to provide emergency alerting for several hundred personnel, including rapidly warning them of enemy arms fire, impending attacks and severe weather conditions.
The alerts effectively and efficiently notify personnel of the emergency situation and provide details on how long the alert is in effect. Using IWSAlerts, military and civilian personnel in Camp Slayer rapidly receive warnings about threats, as well as clear instructions for action, such as temporarily increasing uniform posture in response to enemy fire. Within seconds, the operations center can activate pre-defined alerting scenarios, which turn networked computers into an integrated physical alarm system, capturing the attention of nearby personnel through loud audio and visual messages. The system can be integrated with sensors to automatically activate scenarios and warnings for incoming threats. Command centers now can proactively alert personnel of attacks and help ensure a quick and safe response.
AtHoc IWSAlerts was selected due to its ease and speed of deployment. AtHoc worked with local network technicians to install and configure the product within days. Army security specialists then ran numerous tests over a two-week period for information assurance certification before deploying the commercial-off-the-shelf software on their operational network. Initially deployed for Air Force personnel, the system was quickly extended to the Army and Navy who were co-located within the same joint command.
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Multi-National Force-Iraq Deploys AtHoc IWSAlerts in Camp Slayer for Emergency Notifications
MIR3 Selected by AtHoc as its Service Provider for Telephony Notification
MIR3 to provide Global Telephony Notification Services to AtHoc via inWebServices.
inWebServices Powered by MIR3 Intelligent Notification Initiative Continues to Grow.
San Diego, California --[EMERGENCYNOTIFICATIONNEWS] -- April 12, 2007 – MIR3™, the technology leader in Intelligent Notification™ solutions for global enterprises, today announced the company has entered into an agreement with AtHoc, Inc., a leading supplier of enterprise-class network-centric alerting systems, to provide AtHoc and its customers with telephony notification subscription services.
Under the terms of the agreement, MIR3 will provide AtHoc with the ability to trigger telephone notifications using MIR3’s global telephony alerting capabilities. As part of inWebServices, MIR3 exposes its products’ application programming interface (API) as a Web service, making it easy for partners and customers to integrate MIR3 alerting capabilities into their own alerting applications.
“Many of our customers use AtHoc’s IWSAlerts™ net-centric alerting system to fulfill their requirement for a single central notification system that manages and triggers all forms of alerting simultaneously. By partnering with MIR3, we now have a strong option for triggering telephony alerting,” stated Aviv Siegel, chief technology officer for AtHoc. “By connecting the MIR3 service via Web services, telephones act as an extension of our IP-based notification management system. This complements our ability to alert all IP-connected devices, send SMS messages, activate public announcement systems, trigger the national Emergency Alert System (EAS), and provide many more alerting capabilities.”
“After evaluating the notification services market,” continued Siegel, “it became clear that MIR3 has expertise with services oriented architecture and Web services – they know how to deliver on both. They have provided us with a true ‘plug-and-play’ solution that allows us to integrate and ship our products faster.”
MIR3’s chief strategy officer (CSO), Frank Mahdavi, commented, “AtHoc’s unmatched success in the DoD, government and large commercial enterprise markets makes them an ideal partner for MIR3. We believe that AtHoc is positioned to become the alerting standard in the DoD and within the government physical security and force protection market, and we’re excited to be part of the solution. Our Intelligent Notification platform has been widely adopted by system integrators, developers and communication solution providers, due in large part to our commitment to a service oriented architecture, ease-of-implementation, scalability, security and reliability.”
MIR3’s president and CEO Amir Moussavian said, “We came into 2007 with the clear goal of delivering our emergency-ready global notification capability technology to developers and partners through the inWebServices Powered by MIR3 Intelligent Notification initiative. AtHoc’s partnership is important to us and we believe that this agreement illustrates MIR3’s technology lead in global enterprise notification. We’re deployed by the largest businesses across diverse corporate functions such as sales and marketing, corporate communications, supply chain management and business continuity, and we look forward to additional partners joining us.”
MIR3 inWebServices is built on the SOAP 1.2-compliant XML J2EE standard. The inWebServices Powered by MIR3 Intelligent Notification program costs nothing to join, but registration is required. Developers and integrators can register for the program here.
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U.S. Navy Awards AtHoc with Contract to Provide Network-centric Emergency Notification Systems Reaching up to 400,000 Personnel in Four Navy Regions
AtHoc IWSAlerts Helps to Fulfill the Navy’s Anti-terrorism Force Protection (ATFP) Needs to Rapidly Alert Personnel about Emergencies and Provide Critical Instructions
BURLINGAME, Ca. -[EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION NEWS]-- Sept. 12, 2006 – AtHoc, Inc. today announced the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego has selected and procured AtHoc IWSAlerts™ to serve as the networked alerting system for four of the Navy’s sixteen regions around the world. The Navy purchased twelve enterprise edition server licenses of AtHoc IWSAlerts as well as the add-on Weather Alerts Module. Using the Navy’s existing IP network, AtHoc IWSAlerts will be used to alert up to 100,000 personnel at each of the four regions within minutes of an emergency event occurring.
The AtHoc alerting system, named the Computer Desktop Notification System (CDNS) by the Navy, will be used primarily by the Regional Operations Center (ROC) within each of the four regions. ROCs operate 24/7 and have the primary responsibilities for all Navy installations and personnel within a defined geographical region. Their efforts are supported by Emergency Operations Centers (EOC) located on individual bases within the region, which will also be able to activate the system. CDNS will work in conjunction with installations’ outdoor PA and telephony alerting systems to deliver, within minutes, alerts to over a hundred thousand networked devices in each region, including desktops, laptops, PDAs and even cell phones.
“For a complex organization such as the Navy, effective emergency alerting isn’t just about distributing information. It’s also about pre-planning and managing the emergency notification process,” said Curt Kolcun, vice president of Microsoft Federal. “Using AtHoc IWSAlerts, built on Microsoft Windows and SQL Server technologies, the Navy can do exactly that.”
AtHoc IWSAlerts’ management system can determine who needs to be alerted to deal with a situation, figure out what types of information and instructions should be sent, decide who has the authority to alert whom and with what information, and also measure the overall effectiveness of the alerting process. It also includes organizational management tools that allow the ROCs and EOCs to assign varying levels of permissions to different operators. One operator may be authorized to send alerts to all personnel in a region while another would be limited to base personnel only, or even to personnel who are members of a specific tenant agency inside a base. This provides great value to the Navy, which manages multiple bases and tenant organizations within each region.