The National Civil Defense’s new alert sending system, Defesa Civil Alerta, began operating in the South and Southeast regions of the country this Wednesday (4). The tool will operate in cases of high-risk disasters and will be used for the population living in a risk area.
With the cell phone network, the technology issues alerts through text messages and audible warnings. When notifying, the tool suspends any content in use on the device’s screen, even those that are in silent mode.
The general coordinator of monitoring and warning at the National Center for Risk and Disaster Management (Cenad) of the National Secretariat for Civil Protection and Defense (Sedec), Tiago Schnorr, said that in cases of less intense disasters, the other mechanisms continue to work .
“At first, the use of the new technology will be focused on the states’ civil defenses. They were previously trained and certified to use the tool correctly. Remembering that for less intense disasters, with less compromise to people’s safety, the other mechanisms, such as SMS, pay TV, WhatsApp and Google, remain in force”, says Schnorr.
In addition, a demonstration alert was sent to 36 cities in Rio Grande do Sul and the capital of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, as a way of showing the tool’s functionality, last weekend.
This content was originally published in Civil Defense alert tool goes into operation in the South and Southeast of the country on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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