New Public Alert Service Could Save Lives and Property

New Public Alert Service Could Save Lives and Property

New Zealand's most comprehensive public alerting service, is now available from the Dunedin company, Lert Info. It's the brainchild of Ashley Lie-Oleson, Derek Gunn and Stuart Gunn, who between, them completely designed this very unique service.

Almost every day something happens somewhere in the country that could impact anyone. Weather, State Hwy closures, public health notices, power outages, Civil Defence and so on.

Lert Info provides these alerts free to the public. There is a huge variety of alert types. Alerts are sent for events that cause inconvenience, such as a state highway closure, or at worst, be possibly life threatening, weather events and natural disasters. Information is fed to Lert Info from credible sources such as Police, Civil Defence etc and a message is then sent to anyone registered for the service.

This "set and forget" service is designed to provide fast accurate information that is "pushed" to subscribers, empowering them to make decisions. Messages are focused down to a person's suburb or town if needed, and often have a link to the original full alert, so a person can get the details if they choose.

The alerts are proving to be an extremely quick way to hear of something, that may otherwise take many minutes or even an hour or two.

Recently the effectiveness was illustrated when, during very heavy rain, the Whanganui bridge in the South Island got washed out and a tourism operator knew nothing about it till later that day. Lert info had sent a message at 11 am. Because the operator wasn't on the service, they weren't able to advise travellers and save them a great inconvenience.

The Christchurch quake saw six main types of alerts in the first two weeks. They were Civil Defence, Police, State Highways, Weather, Councils, and power. Lert Info supplies all these. Additional alerts are sent for public health warnings, water notices, river flood levels and Rural Fire where available.

For every New Zealander, the service is invaluable because Lert Info communicates fast, factual and location specific information. The more information people have sooner, the better equipped they are to make appropriate decisions. The service is not a stand-alone one, but compliments other information streams. It is, though, the only single source for ten alert types which no one else provides the way Lert Info does.

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