RDS - Public Early Warning Receiver

Citizen Emergency Information

• Very effective and reliable Early-Warning System to save life, protect personal property and protect national economy
• Warning of hundreds of thousands people at the same time -
  Night and Day - by sending out one alert signal via the already
  existing FM broadcast infrastructure
• Patented Enhanced Early Warning protocol supported
• Warning in different user definable priorities
• Selective addressing of receivers to build up an effective early warning infrastructure
  • all receivers
  • selectable groups (e.g. first responders, police…)
  • single receivers
• Possible reconfiguration of the receivers over air
• The Early Warning Receiver alerts everyone - no matter the current status of the receiver: ON/OFF or in wake-up mode
• Use of existing FM broadcast infrastructure
• 2wcom Know How and Quality

Introduction

An emergency or disaster can occur anytime, anywhere.

Are you ready to handle one in the middle of the night? How fast can you get the word out to those who need it? How many people do you think you will reach at 4am?

Core Requirements

An effective warning system needs to be:

1. Easy to activate. Your staff will busy enough already and won't have time to read the manual!
2. Fast - A warning that takes 15 minutes to reach people may be too late - seconds count.
3. Reliable - Downtime is not acceptable, it needs to work - always.
4. Informative - Tell people what to do to be safe.
5. Most importantly - must be able to wake people up and give them the information they need. Why? - because we spend 1/3 of our lives asleep. If you cannot wake them up then you will have big problems alerting at night!

Our Warning System meets these Requirements and is Inexpensive.

Our network uses a specially designed clock radio to wake people up and send them messages that they can read on the display. As the system owner, you choose what to send, to which group of radios, and at what level of urgency using a simple web interface. There is no equipment to buy other than the radios themselves. The system is easy to set up and affordable whether you need 100 radios or a million!

How it works

Warning messages are sent using the Radio Data System (RDS) channel over our network of commercial FM stations. The infrastructure is already there and the high power and coverage of FM make it ideal for reliable distribution of such warnings. RDS is used worldwide and is a very robust data channel.

The Receiver

Our Multi-Hazard FM-RDS Public Early Warning Receiver looks and acts like a normal FM clock radio - that is until it is triggered.

Then it loudly announces your message and scrolls it across the screen for all to read.

It is equipped with two tuners. One is for the clock radio - the second tuner locks to our network station and listens to the RDS-emergency-channel continuously - even if the radio is "off" or tuned to another station. The clock is kept updated by the network so it is extremely accurate.

This commercial quality receiver is equipped with a rechargeable backup battery so it will still work many hours after power is lost. The receiver is designed to reach everybody, and it is loud enough to alert everyone even if they are not in the same room.

There is also an enhanced "professional" version with even more features for first responders and the disabled.

Additionally external devices like large-scale displays (billboards), lamps, flashing lights, etc may be hooked up to the professional version triggered by relay or its serial interface.