Five leading providers of emergency, incident, and business continuity solutions jointly announce a major first-of-its-kind demonstration to show the real-world interoperability of a wide variety of alerting solutions based on the OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) Common Alerting Protocol (CAP).


The "CAP All-Hazards Interoperability Demonstration" will be conducted at the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) EMEX 2005 annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona on November 14 -15, 2005.


An international audience of emergency management professionals will be invited to witness the live demonstration that will provide an unprecedented level of interoperability across different public warning systems. The demonstration will include several companies working with the OASIS Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) to allow a consistent warning message to be communicated simultaneously over different alerting systems.


Scenarios will include simulated chemical HAZMAT incidents, AMBER alerts, Tsunami warnings and other emergency alert notifications. Simulated All-Hazards alerts will be relayed by emergency alert equipment for television and radio, sirens, tone alert radios, the Internet, mobile devices and more.


By standardizing on the OASIS CAP 1.1 format, these five companies will be able to take a major step forward in sharing critical, and potentially life saving, information. OASIS CAP enables the exchange of emergency alert and public warning information over data networks and computer-controlled warning systems. The standard allows for a consistent warning message to be communicated simultaneously over different systems.

The participants in the demonstration will include Acoustic Technology Inc., Defense Group Inc., Hormann America, SpectraRep, Warning Systems Inc., and local public television station KAET. Together, the capabilities being shown during the CAP interoperability demonstration can form the technology core of a standards-based, all-media, all-hazards public warning strategy.
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