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Emergency Alerting System

Completion Date : 2005

Location of Works : Victoria

Features and Benefits : Serving emergency workers and volunteers in times of critical communications requirement, key objectives include virtual saturation coverage and extremely high reliability. The system required the construction of more than 200 transmitter sites located throughout the State, as well as a control site and a disaster recovery site in Melbourne. Deploying a proven technology which will operate at low data rates and optimum radio frequency, and will be able to reach places out of range of mobile phones.

Description :
Servicing the 30,000 personnel of the Country Fire Authority, Rural Ambulance Victoria and the Victoria State Emergency Service, EAS has replaced a variety of outdated systems to provide a guaranteed method of emergency message delivery to all populated areas of Victoria. This is an eight-year design, construct, operate and maintain (DC & OM) awarded in June, 2004. Challenges included obtaining access and managing the logistics to remote transmitter sites in the short time available for system construction. The network is now fully operational, coming into service prior to the 2006 / 2007 bushfire season.