CityWatch incorporates a Powerful Web and Desktop based GIS Mapping solution…

When an emergency situation occurs in your Community such as a weather warning, flood evacuation, HAZMAT spill, lost child, or homeland security alert you need a fast and accurate way to identify your at risk geographic area and quickly send them an alert message regarding the situation. CityWatch GIS Mapping gives you this capability…

CityWatch offers a comprehensive GIS mapping feature for both our on-site and off-site hosted emergency notification solutions. This dynamic application utilizes fully compatible ESRI technology, providing users secure access to their specific maps for easy geographic selection of areas requiring notification. From inclement weather to missing persons to evacuations, CityWatch from Avtex enables rapid, accurate – and remote – activation of GIS-powered notifications from virtually any location in the world.

CityWatch Capacity-On-Demand enables users with the ability to utilize their on-site system for notification or offload notifications to our hosted Capacity-On-Demand systems, ensuring rapid, accurate communication in times of crisis.

CityWatch GIS:

• Launches geographic notifications remotely through any Internet connection.
• Enables users to dynamically define virtually any geographic area of their community for notifications.
• Allows users to display all map layers at one time, without having to search menus or change views
• Provides the most flexible directional calling capability available for notifications (e.g., north to south, east to west, nearest to farthest, etc.)
• Generates thousands of emergency notifications, initiating first warnings within seconds.
• Enables users to select multiple notification areas simultaneously.
• Provides numerous drawing tools for geographic area selections (circle, radius, freehand, plume modeling, rectangle…)
• Enables pre-recorded and “on-the-fly” messages to be saved for future use