PARIS, France, Nov. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Croatia has selected Intersec's GeoSafe
technology as the basis for its new national public warning system
(PWS). The decision sees Croatia
adopting a best practice response to the European mandate that all
EU member states must implement a modern digital public warning
system by June
2022[1].
Ingolf Ruh, Chief Revenue
Officer, for Intersec says:
"The Croatian government wanted the best technology possible
in order to serve its population in a crisis. Simply complying with
the European regulations regarding public warning systems was not
enough: they wanted to innovate and prepare for the future. As part
of an end-to-end solution that enables government and network
operators to work seamlessly together from the outset, GeoSafe will
deliver a public warning system for Croatia that will keep citizens informed and
protected for many years to come."
Croatia has a population over 4
million but attracts almost five times as many tourists annually
(19.6 million in 2019). Croatia's
Ministry of the Interior and Civil Protection Directorate (MoI/CPD)
was tasked with improving its current processes and introducing new
communication channels to provide a single national system to alert
citizens and visitors during crisis situations. A key requirement
was the ability to target specific segments of the population in
real time using mobile messaging, dependent on their (changing)
position relative to the crisis.
Using a combination of cell broadcast and location-based SMS,
Intersec GeoSafe provides the technology that will enable the
MoI/CPD to provide early warning and subsequent crisis
communications in case of national emergencies such as floods,
fires, epidemics or terrorist incidents. Providing critical alert
aggregation capability, its powerful data processing will enable
anonymized geolocation data to be used to provide the best possible
information in an emergency. The system will also help to track
whether messages have been received and how people are responding.
GeoSafe can differentiate between users of Croatian mobile networks
and foreign national operators, so crisis communications can be
sent in foreign languages, in real time, without violating personal
data protection regulations.
Intersec partnered with Croatian companies King ICT and GDI to
respond to the competitive tender. As one of four businesses
bidding for the project, the Intersec consortium won by proving
that its system was technically superior, offered robust data
anonymization processes for maintaining citizen privacy, and could
deliver a cost-efficient, future-proof solution at both
governmental and network operator level.
All three national telecommunications operators in Croatia have confirmed their participation in
the project, thereby ensuring coverage of the entire Republic of Croatia, and enabling the
government to reach up to 100% of mobile device users.
Note to editors
1. Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and
of the Council (Article 110 – Public Warning System), under which
the European Commission has mandated that every country in
Europe should have a digital
population alert system in place by 2022.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/en/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A02018L1972-20181217
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