SMS technology to aid emergency services response times

Pro

16 July 2009

The Inter-Agency Management Office, which co-ordinates emergency services across the Southern region, has implemented text messaging technology from Irish owned software company Saadian to boost speed of communications, reliability and response rates. The new technology based, on Saadian’s PagerSMS software product, has already been used in communications surrounding swine flu.

Saadian’s PagerSMS is an emergency alert system designed to reach key personnel during a crisis. Inter-Agency says that the adoption of the technology will reduce administration time by 60%. This boosts emergency response times significantly and is being used to communicate with and mobilise hundreds of key staff such as the Garda

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