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Emergency Preparedness

Facts about MAIENS

MAIENS stands for Multi Ethnic Multilingual Advanced IVR Emergency Notification System
It is intended to aid the Emergency preparedness process by notifying community leaders/priests of an impending emergency in their native tounge.
It receives emergency broadcast messages from state/federal agencies, identifies the affected populations using a GIS interface, translates the messages into appropriate languages and calls out the leaders of the affected populations.
Estimated first Demo of the system is April 2011.

Updates:

11/9/11: First Coalition Meeting Summary is now available. Please refer to the Attachments section for the document.

11/7/11: First Coalition meeting at CAHEP.

Overview

CAHEP is working on an Emergency Notification system that is capable of communicating affected communities of an impending natural disaster, weather condition, police/fire emergency situation in a timely fashion. The Community leaders are initially notified by the MAIENS. The objective of this system is to keep the multi-ethnic communites updated of an impending emergency as they are usually left out of the Federal/Statewide emergency notification systems because of language constraints. M.A.I.E.N.S is an intelligent outbound Integrated Voice Response (IVR) system designed to notify affected clients of an ongoing/impending Emergency condition in their native tongue. MAIENS continuously monitors for incoming emergency broadcasts and identifies affected populations by interfacing with a powerful Geographic information system system. It screens affected clients from a database based on the GIS response information. The system then selects the appropriate notification message in the client’s native tongue and prepares for a call out.

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