CITY ARRAY

Emergency Management Professionals (EMP) are faced with the daunting task of protecting the public and coordinating response during ever increasing natural and human created disasters. Changing listener habits, obsolete technology, budget restraints and low ‘opt-in’ rates for cell phone push notification, challenge EMPs to distribute accurate and timely messages that will be trusted, understood and followed by the public. Further complicating the process is the multiple channels e.g. email, text, phone, social media multiple languages and informal networks that can convolute the message and subsequent behaviors of people. The use of the national wireless system, IPAWS/WEP, is further complicated by restrictions and decision trees that bog down the ability to transmit information in a timely manner which can cause inaccuracies and diminish trust.

CITY ARRAY is the first of its kind Dedicated Public Communications Platform to support Smart City Initiatives working towards a national information infrastructure that is scalable, modular, integrated and secure for the efficient, timely wireless distribution of accurate multilingual information across cities, states, nations.