CAN Mapping Software Helps Save Lives in an Emergency!Business Editors ALBANY, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 21, 2001 CAN, Community Alert Network, the first provider of high-speed emergency notification in the world; CAN continues to gain ground against fierce new competition. Community Alert Network is the leader in Emergency Notification in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . CAN is a computer driven telephone warning and personnel recall service used by more than 650 communities and corporations. CAN delivers the ability to call any number of people or emergency response personnel in a short period of time using over 250 outbound phone lines (15,000 calls per hour affecting 40,000+ individuals). The flexibility of CAN allows clients to contact persons via telephone, pager, e-mail, cell phone or fax. CAN also quickly reaches hearing-impaired community members on TDD/TTY machines with a text message. Community Alert Network, (CAN) today announced that 2001 is the 20th year in business. "We began by opening our first Operations Center The facility or location on an installation, base, or facility used by the commander to command, control, and coordinate all crisis activities. See also base defense operations center; command center. in Schenectady, NY in 1981," said Ken Baechel, founder of the company, "and I am pleased to say we have made several million emergency phone calls and thousands of friends all across North America since then." Mark Guidetti, Director of Operations, credits the company's ability to stay competitive with constantly improving the speed and accuracy of delivering emergency messages when every second counts. "During the Los Alamos Los Alamos (lôs ăl`əmōs', lŏs), uninc. town (1990 pop. 11,455), seat of Los Alamos co., N central N.Mex. It is on a long mesa extending from the Jemez Mts. The U.S. Fires last year we successfully made over 27,000 calls to evacuate their residents; one woman explained on national TV that she had just fifteen minutes to get out of her house at 3am, she then watched her house go up in flames In Flames is a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden founded in 1990. Along with Dark Tranquillity and At the Gates, they pioneered what is now known as melodic death metal. in her rear view mirror as she drove away," he said. "We are where we are We are where we are is a Scottish idiom for pretending to accept the status quo, and to imply that previous events should be forgotten. It is based on the fact that it is impossible to turn back the clock. today due to constant improvements and innovation." NEW MAPPING SOFTWARE ANNOUNCED To celebrate their 20th Anniversary, Baechel has announced an innovative new software product- CAN MAPPING. (A 3 minute demo is available by e-mail in a 3.5 meg file or CD ROM CD ROM Compact Disk Read Only Memory by mail.) CAN MAPPING is a unique method of quickly and accurately transmitting a geometric shape to CAN Redundant Operations Centers to delineate a specific geo-coded map area to be called in the event of an emergency. Just create any shape the situation requires, (flood, prison break, hazardous material spill- release, severe weather, missing child/person, contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. drinking water drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. , etc) then click on the CAN icon and send the shape to CAN Operations via the internet; the transfer takes seconds. Then phone records will be extracted from the underlying database; calls then go out at the rate of 250+ simultaneously. The CAN-MAPPING software provides the ability to use a geometric shape such as a circle, rectangle, polygon polygon, closed plane figure bounded by straight line segments as sides. A polygon is convex if any two points inside the polygon can be connected by a line segment that does not intersect any side. If a side is intersected, the polygon is called concave. , or buffered line along a river, highway or railroad to pinpoint an area to call so that an emergency message may be delivered to only those people in need. This capability can be used to effectively target an area for a specific message and to assist in the orderly implementation of action(s) to be taken. Areas within the shape will define the same area CAN will use to extract the address and telephone data for the emergency callout. The evolution of emergency notification over the past 20 years has been amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. . "We have been motivated by the fact that we are helping to save lives," explains Baechel; "The simple truth is that at 3am, for example, most communities have no way to quickly reach their citizens in an emergency. Most communities are relying on TV & Radio along with door to door notification." |
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