Boca Raton buys use of alert technology

The City of Boca Raton has named Ormond Beach-based Emergency Communications Network part of its emergency preparedness network, the company said.
"Recent emergencies required Boca Raton to contact residents to notify them of a boil water alert," ECN explained. " But the system Boca Raton had been using would have taken three days to reach residents. ECN's CodeRED system can make over 60,000 phone calls in one hour."
The company's CodeRED is a patented, Internet-based message delivery system that makes recorded phone calls. ECN said it developed the system to provide immediate access to time-sensitive information, including boil water alerts, weather emergencies, local criminal activity and homeland security issues.
The company said Fort Lauderdale-based nonprofit agency A Child is Missing uses the CodeRED calling system to help find missing children and seniors and to issue sexual predator alerts.
George Brown, assistant city manager of Boca Raton, said the city realized it needed to be able to reach its residents and customers with timely information as quickly as possible.
"The CodeRED system is fast and accurate down to the street address, so we know we'll be able to deliver alerts about emergency situations in as timely a manner as possible," he said.
Neither the city nor the company gave a dollar value to their deal or said for how long Boca Raton has contracted to use the CodeRED system.

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