Reactivating Silenced Sirens

Inviting Storm Chasers to Solve a Siren Problem

This weekend, in Denver, at ChaserCon 2015, WeatherCall is speaking with storm chasers and the supporting emergency management managers attending on the best ways to handle a national problem created by the reallocation of the public's bandwidth in 2013.  As described in this blog post, when it occurred, many of the nation's outdoor warning sirens, considered analog sirens, lost their ability for Emergency Managers to effectively communicate with them.  With the cost of replacements being, in many cases, too high to be replaced, thousands of the nation's outdoor warning sirens were effectively silenced.  WeatherCall, along with TechTrol Inc., has an affordable solution to restarting those sirens while also making them National Weather Service storm based-warning compliant.

 WeatherCall Services, LLC, a Parker, CO, based company, is introducing to ChaserCon 2015 attendees a solution as part of our IntelliWarn line of products and services, including the IntelliSiren.  By partnering with WeatherCall Services, local governments can solve the problem of their silenced sirens by attaching a patented technology to those sirens, and allowing WeatherCall Services to activate the attached controller to "sound the alarm" automatically when the siren's location and monitored location around it is affected by the type of storm that causes activation.

This IntelliSiren technology is part of WeatherCall's IntelliWarn series of products which surrounds users with as many possibly notification methods as WeatherCall offers, in accordance to our trademarked LayersSaveLives concept.  As experienced meteorologists and emergency managers, we have seen disasters where virtually all notification technologies are rendered useless. In those situations, having as many options of technologies to get your attention to notify you of danger is vital, in our fast-paced world of multiple technologies.  Partnering with TechTrol, Inc., has allowed both companies to introduce solutions that are both affordable and vastly more reliable than like systems in the marketplace.

If you are a part of a community that has experienced the silencing of sirens, and cannot afford new siren technologies, allow IntelliSiren by WeatherCall and TechTrol to put them back online.  If interested contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , and request information.  If you read this while at #ChaserCon2015, stop by the WeatherCall table and talk to John Kashirsky, Regional Notification Consultant, or Valerie Ritterbusch, President and Meteorologist.

As for the storm chasers at ChaserCon 2015, happy and safe hunting.  Remember, storm chasing is one thing, making sure you are a part of the notification process to those in the paths of these monstrous storms is another.  And being involved in life saving communications to those who can either issue warnings or warn those in the path of these storms will give you a legacy you will never outlive in lives saved and communities impacted by your service.