KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 — Everbridge Inc has been selected by Peru’s Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MTC) to power the nation’s Sistema de Mensajería de Alerta Temprana de Emergencia (Sismate), Peru’s Early Warning Emergency Messaging System.
In a statement, the global leader in critical event management said the appointment marked the completion of contract negotiations with the MTC that Everbridge had initially disclosed in September, without naming the country.
After the Sismate is deployed, it will be activated once Peru’s National Institute of Civil Defense detects a major incident.
The system, powered by Everbridge Public Warning, will send critical messages to mobile phones before, during and after the emergency.
Sismate alerts can also be used in drills and to provide support in search and rescue operations.
It is designed to serve over 37 million people, including Peru’s 33 million residents and four million annual visitors.
In addition to Peru, Everbridge Public Warning has been deployed to reach the mobile populations on a countrywide scale in Sweden, Iceland, the Netherlands, Singapore, Greece and a number of the largest states in India, and is currently being implemented in Australia.
Everbridge is the first population alerting provider to support four EU countries in conjunction with the recent EU mandate requiring member countries to have a population-wide alerting system in place by June 2022.
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