Iceland selects Everbridge for countrywide population alerting
Everbridge, Inc. announced it has been selected as the winning bidder for a significant new countrywide population alerting system by a country outside of Europe, adding to recent wins in Australia and Singapore. Details of the award, which is subject to final contract negotiation, will be publicized after all procurement processes are completed. Everbridge also announced today that its deployment of Iceland’s national alerting system has gone live and is operational. In light of a recent EU mandate requiring EU member countries to have a population-wide alerting system in place by June 2022, Everbridge is now the first population alerting provider to support four European countries: Greece, Iceland, the Netherlands and Sweden. Everbridge Public Warning leverages existing telecom infrastructure, withno end user registration or opt-in required. All mobile phones located within a specified geographic area can be notified by government emergency authorities using location-based information from local cell towers.
Within Iceland, the Everbridge Public Warning solution is being used to provide population-wide alerting to reach Iceland’s 360,000 residents and approximately 2 million annual visitors. Local residents and visitors alike are able to receive location-based SMS notifications on their mobile phones if they are within an area where a sudden critical event has occurred such as fire, volcanic activity, extreme weather or a terror attack. Public Warning also allows Iceland emergency authorities to seamlessly engage in two-way communication with people to check on whether they are safe and to receive requests for assistance.
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