Recent and Upcoming Improvements to Emergency Alerts

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1 Recent and Upcoming Improvements to Emergency Alerts John Lawson, Executive Director, AWARN Alliance May 1-2, 2018 Hyatt Regency Crystal City Arlington, VA

2 APCO Public Safety Broadband Summit Advanced Emergency Alerting Progress Report John Lawson, Executive Director, AWARN Alliance May 2, 2018

3 Advanced Alerting with Next Gen TV (ATSC 3.0)

4 Broadcasters (Commercial) Capitol Broadcasting Company Pearl TV (8 of the largest TV groups) Sinclair Broadcast Group AWARN Alliance, April 2018 National Organizations Consumer Technology Association Interactive Television Alliance National Association of Broadcasters Broadcasters (Public) Kentucky Educational Television KPBS/Cal State University-San Diego UNC-TV/University of North Carolina WKAR/Michigan State University WNET/New York Service Providers Convergence Services, Inc. Lerman Senter PLLC Wiley Rein LLC Technology Providers Aircode LG Electronics/Zenith Lokita Solutions/DigiCap ONE Media OpenZNet Monroe Electronics/DAS The Weather Co/IBM Trilithic Inc. Triveni Digital

5 AWARN Advisory Committee

6 Northern California Wildfires, October 2017 Emergency alerts draw complaints in fast-moving wildfires By Paul Elias and Michael R. Blood AP October 12 at 9:37 PM SANTA ROSA, Calif. The story is repeated again and again: The dead of night, no warning, then panic after realizing the smoke and flames were approaching Washington Post

7 Gatlinburg Wildfires, Nov-Dec 2016

8 If you tell people to evacuate in 90 characters without giving them instructions, all you re going to do is make the situation worse.

9 NY & NJ Bomber, September 2016

10 Pressure on PSAPs from Current Alerting

11 Better Alerting = Less Volume to PSAPs in Emergencies

12 Sometimes People Cannot Even Call The day after Hurricane Irma hit Southwestern Florida, only one full power station (out of 96) was off-the air in Florida, none in the Miami-Dade DMA. Source: FCC Hurricane Irma Communications Status Report for Sept. 11

13 Northern California Wildfires 2017 Raging California wildfires burned 80 cell towers, hampering evacuation alerts Mashable, October 17, 2017

14 Better Disaster Recovery = Less Volume to PSAPs with Non-Emergency Calls

15 AWARN: Major Upgrade to U.S. Alerting Geo-targeting reduces over-alerting Rich media photos, video, maps, evacuation routes Multilingual and accessible Deep indoor and mobile reception Device wake-up capability All IP integration with social media Scalable to an unlimited number of devices Resilient operates when cellular fails and grid is down Frees-up 911 and other vital 2-way communications

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18 Legacy EAS message on cable TV

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26 Active Shooter Encrypted Content for First Responders Source: WRAL

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29 NOAA National Severe Storms Laboratory

30 AWARN Alert Beta Development Workshops to define requirements with alert originators (AOs), social scientists, broadcasters, and consumer electronics makers Continued technical development focused on AO interface and user interface (UX/UI) Testing in Phoenix Model Market (September timeframe) Include FEMA, NWS Include AZ emergency managers for local threat scenarios Plugfests to test end-to-end interoperability of alerting and Next Gen TV equipment and software

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32 Future of Emergency Alerts Workshop - Findings Emergency managers would benefit from a unified position to advocate for pressing emergency alerting issues, leveraging organizations such as IAEM & NEMA Focusing on Governance, SOPs, Technology, Training & Education, and Usage are all essential Diverse participation and open dialogue needs to happen more frequently Use case scenario(s) could be the basis for a future exercise at a follow-on workshop

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34 MOU with AWARN-NAB-RAPA (S. Korea) to Form Global Alliance for Advanced Alerting NAB Show, April 2018

35 Join Public Safety User Group (Planned) John Lawson, Executive Director +1 (703) Fiona James, Deputy Director +1 (703)