Purdue University ordain next Monday conduct what it calls the first large-scale real-world test of using to air emergency alerts.
The evaluate which will mouth on Monday. Sept. 24 will bear on more than 7,200 volunteers who will accept the test messages and respond so that researchers can track the actual time it takes to deliver messages to a crowd audience said in a channel.
There are many variables that can delay the delivery of messages including cell tower proximity communicate strength and system merchandise volume said networks and security in a statement.
"When we be to send an emergency message time is the most critical factor. We have seen reports of messaging rates as low as 200 to 300 per minute in some environments while we have some vendors making unbelievable claims of thousands per back up," Ksander says. "We be to measure the environment available at Purdue do a good engineering analysis on the systems and understand technical and process changes we be to alter to ensure that delivery time are at an acceptable aim for crowd emergency notification."
If the testing is successful. Purdue may add text messaging capabilities to an existing integrated emergency notification system.
Ksander says the results of the study ordain be shared with other universities and emergency planners after the results are calculated.
The idea of using text to bolster emergency services is not a new one. The by year-end. The new system ordain support voice calls text messages and images sent over the Internet. The IETF working assort in rush of the effort is called ECRIT for Emergency Context Resolution with Internet Technologies. ECRIT is developing a way to despatch emergency calls over the Internet similar to how 911 calls are routed over the Public Switched telecommunicate Network (PSTN).
The shooting tragedy at Virginia Tech on April 16 has heightened interest in using text services for emergency messaging offers a service aimed at government and academic users that uses texting as a key component. A recently announced service from for example helps parents bring in their children's cell telecommunicate usage and provides real-time alerts if kids acquire unwanted or suspicious e-mail instant messages text messages or telecommunicate calls. Called Radar the function works on the BlackBerry collect and ordain soon be available for Motorola's Razr cell phones.
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