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Collaborative solutions for public safety

The fire department and the civil projection service in Germany do an excellent job and therefore citizens feels safe. But in case of severe or unexpected incidents emergency response can reach their limits.
In many areas public as well as private organizations act in a rather isolated manner and soon come to their limits in case of a large-scale scenario. In order to appropriately meet the technological and organizational needs of 21st century, collaborative safety solutions that put the citizens at the heart of the matter are fundamental.

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"Rock am Ring" cautions attendees with KATWARN

News from Wed., May 25, 2016

At the music festival „Rock am Ring“ to be held from the 3rd to the 5th of June this year in Mendig, around 90,000 guests are expected. Commencing this year, in order to be better protected in the event of storms or other disturbances to security a special application of the alerting system KATWARN is at your disposal free of cost.

OptiAlert-Fachkonferenz

Public Alerting and Social Media: International conference at Fraunhofer FOKUS

News from Thu., September 19, 2013

From October 30 to November 1, 2013, Fraunhofer FOKUS will be hosting the international conference on “Public Alerting and Social Media during Crisis and Disasters”. This event will be attended by 100 international political and administrative decision makers, researchers and specialists in the field of risk management.

KATWARN-Start Paderborn

At the touch of a button: more Security for the county of Paderborn

News from Mon., May 27, 2013

With the symbolic press of the start button on 27 May 2013, the County Commissioner Manfred Müller marked the start of the warning and information system KATWARN in the county of Paderborn. As of now, all citizens within the postal code area of the county can free of charge register themselves and use the system. In case of dangerous situations the users receive official warnings via smartphone-app, text message and email, respectively. The warnings are provided by the county's control center located in Büren-Ahden.

ESPRI-workshop at ISADS 2013

News from Tue., February 19, 2013

The Opti-Alert project coordinator, Fraunhofer FOKUS, organizes a workshop on "Safety and Security Systems for the Public and Industries". The workshop will be hosted by the 11th International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS 2013), March 6-8, 2013, in Mexico City.