The Los Angeles Emergency Management Department
– in coordination with LAPD and dozens of municipal departments –
rolls out large-scale upgrade to the city’s alerting system
Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG), the global leader in critical
event management, today announced the large-scale deployment of its
Mass Notification product as part of a major overhaul of the City
of Los Angeles’ NotifyLA emergency alert program. With a city
population of approximately 4 million residents – the third most
populous city in North America – NotifyLA is Los Angeles’ official
source for critical information about emergencies and city
services.
“We have a commitment to ensure public safety, community
awareness and emergency response,” said Kate Hutton, Public
Information Officer with the Los Angeles Emergency Management
Department. “When critical information and public service
announcements are required, we need to reach our residents as
quickly and reliably as possible. The NotifyLA system, now powered
by Everbridge, allows the City to disseminate this information
across all types of devices, ensuring that residents have access to
real-time public information when they need it the most.”
Among the many new features added to the system is a more robust
Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) capability, supported by
Everbridge. WEA is a federal system that can loudly buzz and
message every mobile phone within range of the City’s cell towers,
whether or not those phones are enrolled in the NotifyLA program.
During flash floods and mudslides impacting Southern California,
Los Angeles used WEA to notify residents in the path of the
powerful storms. The new enhancements give the City more control
over testing, targeting, and deploying the alerts for future
incidents, including earthquakes and wildfires.
The upgrade leveraging Everbridge Mass Notification also gives
Los Angeles the ability to create Incident Zones, which provide
instant alerts to people who enter an active area where a critical
event is currently underway. If a beach area is experiencing
dangerous rip tides, for example, geotargeted alerts can be
activated for the duration of the hazardous conditions and sent to
people as they enter that zone. Alternatively, if there is a
hazardous spill on a roadway, instructions can be sent directly to
mobile devices approaching the scene until the situation is
resolved.
“Many of the largest cities across the country and throughout
the world trust Everbridge to deliver the most proactive, scalable
and efficient population-wide alerting in the face of a critical
event,” said David Meredith, Chief Executive Officer at Everbridge.
“We are excited to partner with the City of Los Angeles to help
optimize their NotifyLA program to ensure their continued
preparedness to keep residents and visitors safe and informed.”
Residents and visitors can sign up for NotifyLA alerts the way
they always have – by texting the word READY to 888777. They can
also enroll online at notifyla.org and provide more detailed
contact information.
In addition to Los Angeles, Everbridge is deployed across 9 of
the 10 largest cities in the U.S., and is widely used throughout
the state of California, providing the critical event management
technology that powers alerting programs in 54 of the state’s 58
counties, as well as national parks like Yosemite.
About Everbridge
Everbridge, Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG) is a global software company
that provides enterprise software applications that automate and
accelerate organizations’ operational response to critical events
in order to keep people safe and businesses running. During public
safety threats such as active shooter situations, terrorist attacks
or severe weather conditions, as well as critical business events
including IT outages, cyber-attacks or other incidents such as
product recalls or supply-chain interruptions, nearly 4,700 global
customers rely on the company’s Critical Event Management Platform
to quickly and reliably aggregate and assess threat data, locate
people at risk and responders able to assist, automate the
execution of pre-defined communications processes through the
secure delivery to over 100 different communication devices, and
track progress on executing response plans. The company’s platform
sent over 2.8 billion messages in 2018 and offers the ability to
reach over 500 million people in more than 200 countries and
territories, including the entire mobile populations on a
country-wide scale in Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands,
Singapore, Greece, and a number of the largest states in India. The
company’s critical communications and enterprise safety
applications include Mass Notification, Incident Management, Safety
Connection™, IT Alerting, Visual Command Center®, Public Warning,
Crisis Management, Community Engagement™ and Secure Messaging.
Everbridge serves 9 of the 10 largest U.S. cities, 8 of the 10
largest U.S.-based investment banks, 46 of the 50 busiest North
American airports, 6 of the 10 largest global consulting firms, 6
of the 10 largest global auto makers, all 4 of the largest global
accounting firms, 9 of the 10 largest U.S.-based health care
providers, and 5 of the 10 largest U.S.-based health insurers.
Everbridge is based in Boston and Los Angeles with additional
offices in Lansing, San Francisco, Beijing, Bangalore, Kolkata,
London, Munich, Oslo, Singapore, Stockholm and Tilburg. For more
information, visit www.everbridge.com, read the company blog, and
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