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MyStateUSA Global Notification System Brings Integrated Alerting to University of Illinois@Urbana-Champaign Campus and Champaign County

Posted on: Monday, 20 April 2009, 07:00 CDT

First System To Allow Global SMS Support And Serve Approx. 200,000 People Including University Students, Faculty, Staff, Public Officials and Surrounding Citizenry.

BOISE, Idaho, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- MyStateUSA, innovators in secure, scalable and flexible emergency communication and notification systems, today disclosed its deployment of what is believed to be the industry's first such Global Notification system, and the successful deployment of AlertSense with the University of Illinois@Urbana-Champaign, and the County of Champaign, Illinois.

The deployment is believed to be the first of its kind to successfully integrate and serve both the campus population of a major university and the civilian populations and responders of its resident county through a common operating platform. It is also the first announced deployment of a university system that allows messaging to a broad array of cell phone types, email systems, landlines and hand-held devices, and interoperates with sirens, signage, beacons and other infrastructure systems using the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) standard.

"The new system from MyStateUSA features fast delivery times, easy registration, and greater integrity in times of crisis because it is hosted off campus," notes Todd Short, Director of Emergency Planning, Division of Public Safety, University of Illinois@Urbana-Champaign.

AlertSense Campus simplifies the system's ongoing maintenance and management, integrating with all campus directories to ensure that the system remains automatically updated.

AlertSense is recognized for successful emergency management and Homeland Security deployments, and provides:

• Interoperable, scalable and easily usable knowledge-sharing and inter-agency collaboration capabilities
• An economical cost-effective Software-as-a-Service architecture
• Tier 1 data centers allowing carrier class reliability
• Extreme customization

Don Barrett, VP of Operations, MyStateUSA, noted: "We are honored to provide ground-breaking, readily customizable solutions to help safeguard students, faculty and citizenry today and as needs evolve."

About AlertSense from MyStateUSA

AlertSense is a comprehensive, scalable and user-friendly interoperable alerting system for immediate emergency messaging and public outreach, and secure, strategic information and content sharing. MyStateUSA also provides state-of-the-art Amber Alert capabilities and advanced, highly integrated corporate and campus notification and warning systems. Its solutions enable ongoing compliance with FEMA's National Incident Management Systems guidelines. Additional information is available at http://www.mystateusa.com.

SOURCE MyStateUSA

Source: PR Newswire

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