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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.
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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.
EmerGeo Signs $310,000 Contract with SecureTech
Vancouver, B.C., – February 1, 2011 – EmerGeo Solutions Worldwide Inc. (TSX-V: EMG), a leading provider of emergency management software, is pleased to announce that its subsidiary EmerGeo Software Solutions Middle East LLC has secured a C$310,000 contract with SecureTech to implement its EmerGeo Fusionpoint™ and integrated mapping software. The software will be used by an important government client in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region for emergency response operations.
EmerGeo’s software has been implemented in several agencies in the Middle East and, building on recent successful deployments, continues to evolve as the standard crisis management and interoperability platform for all agencies involved in emergency planning, training, response and security operations.
“We are extremely pleased to secure this important contract”, said Michael Morrow, Presidentof EmerGeo Solutions. “The EmerGeo Fusionpoint software has been proven effective at not only tracking critical information on incidents, resources, facilities and response activities but also fusing together critical data from diverse systems that our customers have invested in”, 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.
EmerGeo’s Fusionpoint™ dashboard provides decision-makers with situation awareness and real-time communications.
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 EmerGeo Software Solutions Middle East LLC
A strategic partnership between EmerGeo and Atlas Telecom that leverages the expertise of EmerGeo and the regional success of Atlas Telecom in delivering mission critical solutions.
About SecureTech
Founded in 2001, SecureTech (ST) is one the leading Information and Communication Technology (ICT) service providers in the UAE. Equipped with skilled resources and state-of-the-art infrastructure, SecureTech provides clients with robust, cost-effective and secure IT solutions. SecureTech provides specialized services when it comes to Security and Protection, armed with sophisticated security devices which includes but not limited to Security Cameras, Surveillance equipments, homeland security products, self Defense Products for the State Police and Military. In addition to security services, SecureTech serves another domain which includes Data Center Implementation, Disaster Recovery, Storage Services and tailored solutions. SecureTech always prefers to be the first in customer’s choice, thereby keeping in line with quality frameworks and industry-wide best practices. More information on SecureTech is available at http://www.securetech.ae.
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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EmerGeo Software Supports TETRA-based Vehicle and People Tracking System
Vancouver, B.C., - January 6, 2011 – EmerGeo Solutions Worldwide Inc. (TSX-V: EMG), a leading provider of emergency management software and consulting services, is pleased to announce it has successfully deployed EmerGeo Fusionpoint with the Indagon TETRA Positioning Gateway system. This system was a collaborative effort with Atlas Telecom, and will be initially deployed in the United Arab Emirates.
“With this solution, EmerGeo and Atlas have the option to offer public safety and emergency management clients an integrated resource tracking capability that leverages their existing investment in TETRA networks. This addition to the EmerGeo portfolio represents another milestone in the advancement of our Fusionpoint crisis management interoperability application.” said Michael Morrow, President at EmerGeo Solutions Worldwide Inc.
Location based services (LBS), often referred to as Automated Vehicle Location “AVL” or Automated Person Location “APL”, is the most commonly used service by TETRA end user organizations. Leveraging a common TETRA network that links multiple public safety and crisis management agencies together is a cost-effective deployment model.
There are several ways to implement LBS. The most commonly used positioning method is satellite GPS-based location calculation. Using this method and internal or external GPS receiver is connected to the TETRA terminal that calculates the unit location and sends it to the AVL application via TETRA SDS message.
The Indagon TETRA Positioning Gateway (TGW) is designed as a centralized, robust and scalable operator based positioning platform which is able to locate a high number of TETRA terminals based on GPS location and distribute the location data to EmerGeo’s crisis management fusion and mapping applications over the open MLP interface.
EmerGeo – the Crisis Management application: EmerGeo running on laptops or server PC’s interacts with an Indagon TETRA Positioning Gateway server for the purpose of obtaining location information for one or more TETRA terminals. The EmerGeo Fusionpoint application can be used together with a dispatching system to provide a Common Operating Picture.
Indagon TETRA – The Positioning Gateway (TGW): is a gateway into the agency’s communications network to securely and easily obtain location data of subscribers on the network. This TGW receives requests from the EmerGeo server, passes them into the communications network and reports the results back to EmerGeo Fusionpoint for display to the operator.
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.
More information is available at http://www.emergeo.com.
EmerGeo Middle East Contact: Mr. Bryce Mitchell, VP +971 50 9078177
About Atlas Telecom
Atlas Telecom, part of Atlas Group, is a privately owned company that was established in 1983 and is based in United Arab Emirates. Atlas Telecom has completed numerous projects for the UAE Armed Forces, Dubai Police, RTA, Bahrain Ministry of Interior, Kuwait MOI, Abu Dhabi Police, among many others. Atlas Telecom is the leading Systems Integrator in the region with a core business of Wireless Radio Networks and Intelligent Security Systems.
More information is available at http://www.atlastelecom.ae.
About Indagon
Indagon develops, produces and markets GPS-based positioning systems for GSM, TETRA and Wireless Broadband networks. Indagon’s positioning and DGPS service customers in Finland include systems integrators and end-users in multiple industries such as security, public transportation, logistics and maintenance. Internationally the company is one of the leading providers of TETRA positioning solutions for security networks together with its partners.
Indagon is based in Helsinki, Finland and more information is at http://www.indagon.com/en.
Indagon Media Enquiries:
Indagon Oy CEO – Matti Lankinen +358 50 557 1152
Atlas Telecommunications – Halima Abdullah +971 2 69975326
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EmerGeo Welcomes Mr. B.J. (Bert) Cowan to the Board of Directors
Vancouver, B.C., – December 17, 2010 – EmerGeo Solutions Worldwide Inc. (TSX-V: EMG) (“EmerGeo” or the “Company”), a leading provider of emergency management software and consulting services, today announced that it has appointed Mr. B.J. (Bert) Cowan to its board of directors.
Mr. Cowan, BA CFE PCIP, is a founding member and Partner at Competitive Insights Incorporated, a private Canadian-based security management consulting firm. Mr. Cowan has nearly 50 years experience in the fields of threat and risk assessment, intelligence analysis, business continuity planning, risk management, strategy development, leadership training and team development. A former member of the RCMP, he achieved the rank of Inspector during his 23 year career. In 1984, he joined Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and was appointed CSIS Liaison Officer and Counselor at the Canadian High Commission in Hong Kong. Subsequently he was appointed Deputy Director General of the CSIS Foreign Liaison Branch, and then Deputy Director General of the Analysis & Production Branch (RAP) of CSIS. Mr. Cowan left government service in 1992, and has worked as an industry consultant since that time.
Rick MacDonald, CEO of EmerGeo, said, “We are delighted to welcome Mr. Cowan to our board of directors. His knowledge and industry experience, both in Canada and around the world, will be extremely valuable to EmerGeo as we continue to expand our reach around the globe.”
EmerGeo also announced that Mr. Michael Morrow, President and Chairman of the Board, has chosen to step down as a director, and from the position of Chairman of the board. Mr. Morrow will remain with the Company and will continue to focus on Canadian and international sales, supporting channel partners and aligning the company with large system integrators to secure large implementations around the world. Mr. Allan Larmour, a member of EmerGeo’s board of directors since 2008, has been appointed as Chairman.
EmerGeo also announced that, subject to regulatory approval, it has granted 575,500 incentive stock options to directors, officers, employees and consultants of the Company, exercisable at a price of $0.25 per share for a period of ten years from the date of grant. Any shares issued under the option grant will be subject to a four-month hold period from the date of granting, pursuant to the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange.
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.
On behalf of the Board of Directors
EMERGEO SOLUTIONS WORLDWIDE INC.
“Rick MacDonald”
Rick MacDonald, CEO
For more information contact the Company at:
Telephone: (001) 604-681-0989
Facsimile: (001) 604-681-0079
Email: infoemergeocom
Website: http://www.emergeo.com
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The JIBC and EmerGeo Cooperate to Deliver Emergency Management Education and Technology Solutions to Organizations World-Wide
September 16, 2010 (New Westminster, BC) – The Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC) and EmerGeo Solutions (EmerGeo) announce a memorandum of understanding to offer a complete package of emergency management education, training and technology services to communities, government agencies and organizations across Canada and internationally.
“From GIS mapping and social media to information management systems, technology is becoming a key part of every organization’s emergency management program — and integral to helping keep employees and communities safe,” comments Murray Day, Director of the JIBC Emergency Management Division. “At the JIBC, we are continually integrating technology into our applied training and academic programs, and are now pleased to offer a complete training and technology package to our government and private sector clients.”
A public post-secondary institution, the JIBC through its Emergency Management Division (EMD), offers comprehensive emergency management academic programs and applied training to students and clients across Canada and internationally. Through this agreement, the JIBC will now be able to recommend world-class technology solutions in addition to emergency management training.
EmerGeo provides emergency management technology and services to clients world-wide. Their solutions include crisis information management systems, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping solutions and portable Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) options.
“Technology and training go hand in hand,” explains EmerGeo CEO Michael Morrow. “Now, we can offer our clients world-class technology solutions to better gather information, analyze results and manage their programs, along with the necessary training on theory, application and procedures from Canada’s leading emergency management educator.”
For more information on the JIBC, please contact Valder Belgrave at 604-528-5874 or visit www.jibc.ca. For more information on EmerGeo Solutions, please contact Michael Morrow at 604.681.0989 x804 or visit www.EmerGeo.com.
About the Justice Institute of British Columbia
The JIBC is Canada’s leading public safety educator, a dynamic post-secondary institution recognized nationally and internationally for innovative education in the areas of justice and public safety. The JIBC offers a range of applied and academic programs (certificates, diplomas, and degrees) that span the spectrum of safety and security.
As part of the School of Public Safety and Security, the Emergency Management Division (EMD) has been educating emergency managers and first responders in Canada and internationally for more than 20 years. In addition to academic and professional programs, including an Emergency Management Certificate, an Exercise Design Certificate and a Bachelor of Emergency and Security Management Studies, EMD offers applied on-site training in Incident Command System, Emergency Operations Centre, Exercise Design, Search and Rescue and Emergency Social Services. For more information call 604-528-5800, email emergencyjibcca
or visit www.jibc.ca/emergency.
About EmerGeo Solutions
EmerGeo develops emergency management software solutions and provides consulting services and support to government and industry around the world. By leveraging open web standards, EmerGeo’s software brings together, logs and tracks 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. For more information, visit www.EmerGeo.com.