Is CMAS more effective than land line or voice based alert systems?
The answer is a resounding YES. Land line based alert systems require a heavy investment in digital dialers, that even with the most robust systems you are still only reaching a couple of thousand people a minute where CMAS is reaching 200,000 people or more a minute. Also, land line based systems require someone to be home and voice systems will often not get through in times of disasters due to the already overburdened telecom network. Here is a quote from the past president of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, Tom Wheeler, “Everyone should have a plan for communicating in times of emergencies and text messaging can be an efficient way to reach your friends, family or loved ones. In the time it takes one person to make a one-minute voice call, hundreds of thousands of text messages can be exchanged,” Does CMAS have the capability to control the message launch? Yes, early on in our development of the product, we sought the advice of law enforcement officials an
Related Questions
- What if I don’t have either land line phones or cable phones, are their systems that can still communicate to the monitoring center?
- Who can receive emergency notifications via text message (sms) or voice messages to land line phones?
- How does CMAS differ from the subscription based alert systems available today?
