Last modified: 2016-07-31
Abstract
Emergency Alerts and Warnings are one of the primary duties of any public or private broadcaster or service provider alike: to warn the general public of impending danger. Emergency alerts may be issued for typhoon warnings, severe thunderstorms, flooding, but also security hazards or hostile acts.
Distribution of Emergency Alert Warnings should use international standardized and widely adopted protocols to ensure compatibility with all types of devices and even reach visitors from foreign countries. This paper discusses the TPEG application ‘Emergency Alerts and Warnings’ (TPEG2-EAW), which is currently under development within TISA. Coming from the traffic & travel information realm, TPEG is a truly interoperable and worldwide adopted protocol, which offers significant benefits in the context of emergency alert warnings. TPEG2-EAW intends to provide a simple, but general message format for sending all kinds of hazard or emergency alerts or public warnings to different types of devices. The objective of TPEG2-EAW is the consistent dissemination of warning messages, countrywide, or by means of the embedded location referencing methods restricted to a hotspot or a geographical region.
TISA development of TPEG2-EAW targets an efficient, yet universally applicable warning application to provide a simple, extensible format for digital representation of warning messages and notifications.
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