The soaring cost of
gasoline may keep some vacationers closer to home this summer, but for those
who venture out, chances are they’ll find the proverbial summer road
construction somewhere along their route. From
to ,
those orange cones will decorate highways and byways as construction crews
repair roads and, as is happening more frequently, installing intelligent
electronic signage, used for mass notification purposes, along the roads.
In the last few years, mass notification has
become increasingly important as campus violence, natural disasters (i.e.
Hurricane Katrina), child abductions (Amber Alerts), hazmat emergencies and
other threats to life safety have permeated our society. Events such as these
have emphasized the importance of reliable and practical notification systems,
which can reliably and feasibly inform, direct, relocate or evacuate people in
an emergency situation.