Santa Barbara County Selects Genasys for Emergency Response Planning and Evacuation Management

Rhea-AI Summary

Genasys, a leader in Protective Communications, has secured a new contract with Santa Barbara County for its EVAC system, enhancing emergency response and evacuation management. Santa Barbara joins 36 other California counties in deploying this zone-based solution, which accelerates decision-making, improves communication, and provides real-time notifications.

CEO Richard Danforth highlighted the system's importance, noting the 37 natural disasters Santa Barbara has faced in the past 20 years. The EVAC system aims to enhance public safety for the county's 440,000 residents and 7 million annual visitors by providing data-driven tools for emergency responders, replacing guesswork with intelligence during evacuations.

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• Securing a new contract with Santa Barbara County for the EVAC system.
• Santa Barbara joins 36 other California counties using EVAC.
• EVAC system's ability to enhance decision-making and communication during emergencies.
• Improving public safety for 440,000 residents and 7 million annual visitors.

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SAN DIEGO, July 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --  Genasys Inc. (NASDAQ: GNSS), the global leader in Protective Communications, today announced a new Genasys EVAC (EVAC) contract with Santa Barbara County. Santa Barbara joins 36 other California counties in deploying EVAC, a revolutionary, zone-based crisis response and alerting solution, to enhance the safety of residents and visitors during critical events.

“EVAC has quickly become the crisis planning, evacuation modeling, and situational awareness solution of choice for first responders and emergency managers,” said Richard Danforth, CEO of Genasys. “EVAC accelerates decision making time by identifying areas for protective action, enhances communication and collaboration with agencies during cross jurisdictional events, integrates and displays zone-based maps on county and municipal websites and apps, and significantly improves community awareness of evacuation planning efforts with real-time notifications and updates.”

Mr. Danforth added, “Over the last 20 years, 37 natural disasters have been declared by Santa Barbara County due to wildfires, flooding, mudslides and debris flows. We look forward to working with emergency management officials in implementing EVAC to enhance public safety for the county’s 440,000 residents and more than 7 million annual visitors.”

EVAC is the only platform that provides a unique set of data-driven decision support tools that help emergency responders determine the proper scope of an evacuation before issuing an evacuation order, replacing guesswork with intelligence.

Purpose built for all hazards, EVAC provides a comprehensive set of evacuation management tools that make it quick and easy for fire service, law enforcement, and OES/OEM to build and maintain evacuation plans, train using accurate evacuation simulations and scenarios, and conduct life-safety evacuations that reduce incident recognition to community notification time from hours to minutes.

About Genasys Inc.

Genasys Inc. (NASDAQ: GNSS) is the global leader in Protective Communications. Incorporating the most comprehensive portfolio of preparedness, response, and analytics software and systems, as well as the Company’s Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRAD^®), the Genasys Protect platform is designed around one premise: ensuring organizations and public safety agencies are “Ready when it matters™.” Protecting people and saving lives for over 40 years, Genasys covers more than 70 million people in over 100 countries worldwide, including more than 500 U.S. cities. For more information, visit genasys.com.

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FAQ

What is the new contract between Santa Barbara County and Genasys about?

Santa Barbara County has contracted Genasys for its EVAC system to enhance emergency response and evacuation management.

How many other California counties are using Genasys EVAC?

36 other California counties have deployed Genasys EVAC.

What are the benefits of Genasys EVAC for Santa Barbara County?

The EVAC system improves decision-making, communication, and public safety for 440,000 residents and 7 million visitors by providing real-time notifications and data-driven tools for emergency responders.

How has Genasys EVAC impacted emergency management?

Genasys EVAC accelerates decision-making, enhances communication and collaboration, and provides real-time notifications during emergencies, replacing guesswork with intelligence.

What challenges has Santa Barbara County faced that Genasys EVAC will address?

Santa Barbara County has faced 37 natural disasters in the past 20 years, including wildfires, flooding, mudslides, and debris flows, which Genasys EVAC aims to manage more effectively.