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Case Study (Feb 2011): Fusionpoint Supports Major US-Canada Cross Border Exercise
EmerGeo in partnership with FutureShield and the University of Windsor joined forces with emergency responders to provide situational awareness and crisis management software in support of a major US-Canada cross border exercise called Exercise Central Gateway 1.
The purpose of this joint exercise was to test emergency preparedness and response during a mock terrorism event – one of the biggest Ontario exercises ever. With Windsor being so close to the US border and a vital traffic flow corridor for trade between the US and Canada, participants understood the value of securing their location for the economic well-being of Canada.
This event was a “first” for many things, and it seemed to be the most-used phrase among participants: “first time” things were tried, “first time” to see something function in the field, “first time” to see something work. And one of the biggest “firsts” that were shown in this exercise is the realization that private industry, academia, government officials and first responders can work together to enhance and improve our ability to keep our nation safe and secure.
With the incredible efforts among the exercise coordinators and participants, the government funding by organizations such as the DRDC Centre for Security Science and its CRTI and PSTP programs, with private industry like EmerGeo and FutureShield offering their technology support and products, this exercise showed that this first will not be the last.
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EmerGeo Wins Crisis Management Software Tender with Global Bank
Vancouver, B.C., – April 12, 2011 – EmerGeo Solutions Worldwide Inc. (TSX-V: EMG), a leading provider of emergency management software, is pleased to announce that it has secured a €198,450 (~C$270,000) contract with a large global banking institution to implement its EmerGeo Fusionpoint™ and integrated mapping software.
The bank was looking to purchase a Crisis Management and Mapping tool that gives its internal operating groups and global partners a greater level of situation awareness and disaster response capability before during and after a crisis. The EmerGeo software was selected through an international competitive tender to find the best in class provider who offered the highest quality, timely and cost efficient services that meets with the bank’s high standards and policies.
“We are extremely pleased to win this important contract and, more importantly, to begin working with a global leader in the banking industry”, said Michael Morrow, President of EmerGeo Solutions. “Like our government and utilities customers, banks have to maintain a very high state of readiness to ensure quick and effective response and business resumption when disaster strikes. Situational awareness is not just about monitoring global events and the status of facilities on a real-time basis. It is also about understanding, and being alerted to, real or potential impacts on people and assets and having easy tools to effectively manage response activities and resources across multiple departments and stakeholders”, explains Morrow.
EmerGeo has vast international crisis management and event experience, applying best practices and open technology solutions through work with a range of government and industry organizations around the world.
About EmerGeo
EmerGeo develops emergency management software solutions and provides consulting services and support to government and industry around the world. EmerGeo’s Fusionpoint™ and emergency mapping applications are used to log, track and communicate critical information required by emergency and security personnel. By leveraging open web standards, EmerGeo’s software brings together data from dispatch, crisis management, mapping, camera and other third-party systems, providing a common operating picture. EmerGeo’s technology and people have been at the forefront of some of the world’s largest disasters and are proven effective in helping government and industry to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to and recover from potential or actual incidents, natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or pre-planned events.
About the Client
The customer is one of the world’s leading international financial services providers operating in 72 countries worldwide.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
EMERGEO SOLUTIONS WORLDWIDE INC.
“Michael Morrow”
Michael Morrow, President
For more information contact the Company at:
Telephone: (001) 604-681-0989
Facsimile: (001) 604-681-0079
Email: info
emergeo
com infoemergeocom
Website: http://www.emergeo.com
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“Protecting People, Property & the Environment”
EmerGeo Fusionpoint Version 5.4 Announced to Enhance Situational Awareness
Vancouver, B.C., - March 7, 2011 – EmerGeo Solutions Worldwide Inc. (TSX-V: EMG), a leading provider of emergency management software and consulting services, is pleased to announce the immediate availability of EmerGeo Fusionpoint™ Version 5.4.
In response to growing demands for multi-agency interoperability and real-time situational awareness, EmerGeo’s leading situational awareness platform is enhanced with powerful new functionality while maintaining the configurability, extensibility and ease-of-use required by emergency managers.
Fusionpoint V5.4
Fusionpoint Version 5.4 is offered as a free upgrade to customers with an EmerGeo Annual Maintenance & Support Agreement and adds these new features:
- Intelligent Alerting – automated geo-linked alerts for early warning;
- Better Resource Management – integrated resource and facility status board;
- User-Configurable/Shareable Dashboards – role-based information dashboards provide unmatched simplicity and can now be shared seamlessly with other Fusionpoint users;
- Instant Data Roll-up – advanced data filtering and publishing controls for reporting;
- Faster Situational Awareness Mapping – support for Vexcel Virtual Earth® server and tile-based web mapping (based on OpenGIS® Web Map Tiling Service Interface Standard) for much faster map performance; and
- Application Integration and Data Fusion – enhanced WebEOC® crisis management software interface.
“Beyond the new features users will see in Version 5.4, we have significantly enhanced the underlying architecture that positions Fusionpoint for new advanced decision-support capabilities”, explains Mike Morrow, President. “All data consumed by or entered into Fusionpoint can now be ‘categorized’ and related in user-defined ways. This is a major step forward in enabling seamless and real-time information sharing among disparate systems, unstructured data and diverse groups of people – a key requirement to enabling public safety interoperability”.
About EmerGeo
EmerGeo develops emergency management software solutions and provides consulting services and support to government and industry around the world. EmerGeo’s Fusionpoint™ and emergency mapping applications are used to log, track and communicate critical information required by emergency and security personnel. By leveraging open web standards, EmerGeo’s software integrates and consolidates data from multiple sources to enable rapid situational awareness, accurate threat assessment and alerts, and quick decision-making for enhanced emergency and security management.
EmerGeo’s technology and people have been at the forefront of some of the world’s largest disasters for almost a decade and have a proven-effective solution for government and industry to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to and recover from potential or actual incidents, natural disasters, acts of terrorism, or pre-planned events.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
EMERGEO SOLUTIONS WORLDWIDE INC.
“Michael Morrow”
Michael Morrow, President
For more information contact the Company at:
Telephone: 604-681-0989
Facsimile: 604-681-0079
Email: infoemergeocom infoemergeocom
Website: http://www.emergeo.com
The TSX Venture Exchange has not reviewed and does not accept responsibility for the adequacy or the accuracy of this release. We seek Safe Harbor.
“Protecting People, Property & the Environment”
Fusionpoint is a trademark of EmerGeo Solutions, Inc. WebEOC is a registered trademark of ESi Acquisitions Inc. Virtual Earth is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. ArcGIS is a registered trademark of ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute). OpenGIS is a registered trademark of the OpenGIS Consortium.
Atlas Telecom wins US$17 million military radio contract
EmerGeo Solution Worldwide Inc’s joint venture partner, Atlas Telecom, has won a 63 million Dirham (approx US$17 million) communications contract in the United Arab Emirates.
More information is available in this article from Gulf News:
http://gulfnews.com/business/features/atlas-telecom-wins-military-radio-contract-1.767440
Major-General Ahmad Naser Al Raisi, Director-General of Central Operations of Abu Dhabi Police, receives an award from Saeed Al Mutawa, Chairman, EmerGeo Solutions of Atlas Telecom. Image Credit: Abdul Rahman/Gulf News.
EmerGeo Fusionpoint to Support US-Canada Cross Border Exercise
Windsor, Ontario – February 22-25, 2011 – Windsor and area train for terrorist attacks, chemical assaults.
This four-day training exercise, dubbed Exercise Central Gateway 1, is meant to enhance the region’s ability to prepare for and respond to both natural and man-made disasters.
Read more from the Windsor Star:
http://www.windsorstar.com/news/Windsor+area+train+terrorist+attacks+chemical+assaults/4279526/story.html#ixzz1DxeG3OKq
Press Release
Issued February 17, 2011 (Essex County)
EXERCISE CENTRAL GATEWAY 1
On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, February 22-24, 2011, various officials and staffs of The County of Essex, Municipalities of LaSalle, Essex, Tecumseh, the City of Windsor and the City of Detroit, as well as a large number of community partners such as the Canadian Red Cross, 211 Call Centre, Social Services and Hotel Dieu-Grace Hospital, provincial and federal departments (CRDC, CBSA, Environment Canada, Transport Canada, RCMP, MTO, OPP), the University of Windsor and private industry will participate in Exercise CENTRAL GATEWAY 1.This is an annual municipal/regional training exercise that has been developed to test the various aspects of emergency preparedness, emergency response plans and mutual aid capabilities across Windsor and Essex County as well as across international boundaries.
The exercise, based upon a series of escalating criminal and domestic terrorist events over the three-day period, will begin with the initial incident at approximately 8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, February 22, in Windsor’s west end. On this day of the exercise an incident site/field exercise area will be established using a training chemical hauler and requiring the deployment of fire, police, EMS and HazMat teams. The field site, located in the vicinity of the Morton Terminal and the Windsor-Detroit Truck Ferry, will be supported by the Exercise Coordination Centre, Town of LaSalle and Town of Tecumseh Emergency Operations Centres (EOCs) that will be using and training with WebEOC/EmerGeo/Fusion Point, a recently acquired emergency information management software application. A Reception and Community Shelter Centre will be established at the WFCU Arena and staffed by the Red Cross and Social Services. An additional incident involving police and specialty teams will occur in the area of Tecumseh later that day. All exercise activities for the day will conclude around 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday, February 23, will see a continuation of the terrorist threat and response incidents in the vicinity of the Morton Docks and Terminal, among a number of buildings waiting demolishing along the proposed Windsor-Essex County Parkway, and at the Coxon Towing Services Yard at Manning Road and the 401. These field exercise sites will involve police, fire, EMS and Hazmat specialty teams from the local, provincial and federal agencies with coordination and support from the City of Windsor, City of Detroit and Essex County EOCs using WebEOC/EmerGeo/Fusion Point software applications in their operations cycles. The field exercises will run from approximately 8:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. at the latest. There will also be a Reception and Shelter Centre set up for this day at the Harrow Arena to assist a minor emergency event that will occur in the community of Harrow.
On Thursday, February 24, the Town of Essex EOC will be set up from approximately 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. to support the ongoing series of field exercises from the previous day. The general theme for this day of the exercise will be the coordination of ongoing response and recovery operations, mutual aid and support and recovery operations across the region. All exercise main events and activities will end by 4:00 p.m. thereby allowing for the redeployment of out-of-region staff and resources back to their home bases that evening and throughout the next day, Friday, February 25.
For further information please contact the following exercise coordinators:
- CBSA – Windsor-St.Clair Region Media Relations -519 967 4300
- Capabilities Based Planning (CBP) Project Manager - L. Tom St.Onge - 905 467 2314
- University of Windsor – Dayo Kefentse, Manager of News Services -519-253-3000 ext 3241
- Windsor Police Services Exercise activities – Sgt. Brett Corey – 519-981-3900 (cell) or 519-255-6700 ext 4250 (office)
- Reception and Shelter Centre – Donna Girard – 519-791-5216
- St. John Ambulance – John Nayduk – 519-971-9602
- Town of Tecumseh Exercise – Fire Chief Doug Pitre – 519-979-4041 ext 10
- City of Windsor Exercise – Fire Chief Dave Fields – 519-253-6573
- Town of Essex Exercise – Fire Chief Ed Pillon – 519-776-6476 ext 11
- Town of LaSalle Exercise – Deputy Fire Chief Dave Sutton – 519-966-0744
For Essex County and any general exercise details – Essex County Emergency Management Coordinator, Phil Berthiaume – 519-776-2024.