State of Texas Deploys Special Needs Evacuation Tracking System (RFID/GPS)

Vatic Note: Well, what a great sounding write up. What a marvelous thoughtful thing for him to do in such a timely fashion and in such a coincidental manner.  The Government is going to take care of you and do it for idealistic reasons.  Just look at the efficiency and  the cleverness of it all.  We resisted the drivers license, so now we would voluntarily RFID ourselves, wear a wrist band, and they can then GPS us at will.  We are so lucky they thought of all this and prepared so far in advance and found themselves ready "coincidentally" at the same time just such an event showed up.  How lucky we are.  lol

The same government in Texas that fought tooth and Nail to confiscate privately owned land and build the Global Fasicsts Super Highway for the New World order's regional connection between countries, that would no longer be sovereign countries.  I just keep remembering that all three major catastrophes in this nation over the past 10 years were all manmade intentional false flags.  That is how much our leaders love the people, Yes, I trust my government and its corporate owners, uh huh, yes I do. Yeah, right! Evacuation? Why? Texas?? Perry?  Right.  Its because he loves you.  LOL 


State of Texas Deploys Special Needs Evacuation Tracking System
http://www.motorola.com/governmentandenterprise/contentdir/en_US/Files/CaseStudies/SNETSCaseStudy.pdf
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“We live in a 72 hour world, from decision to evacuation. By 36 hours, we want departure hubs set up, personnel trained,  links made, equipment ready, and transportation deployed.  With TX SNETS, we control the event, the event does not control us.”
- Chief Jack Colley, Governor’s Division of Emergency Management

Situation: Improve mass evacuation procedures

When more than one million people evacuated from Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 and more than 2.7 million people fled from Hurricane Rita the following  month, evacuation routes were gridlocked, fuel supplies drained and shelters overwhelmed. Thousands of families were separated and hundreds of pets lost
or left behind. The lessons learned from these catastrophic events reshaped the way the State of Texas approached mass evacuation and amplified the need to better assist and track special needs individuals throughout the process.

State of Texas Deploys Special Needs

Solution: Texas Special Needs Evacuation Tracking System (TX SNETS)

In response to the recommendations of a state-appointed special task force, the Governor’s Division of Emergency Management (GDEM) reached out to the private sector. An AT&T-led group of technology providers including Motorola, (VN: No, who would have imagined?  Turning it over to the corporate owners of the state government, great idea and eliminate the middle man, here comes the big word RFID, you knew it was coming, lol )  Radiant RFID and Retriever Software, worked together to create an automated evacuee tracking system.  Called TX SNETS, the system integrates Motorola handheld computers (VN:  Walmart uses them with counting their inventory of assets, indeed, just like we are)  with Geographic Information System (GIS) databases (VN: Is that like GPS?) with status and tracking displays, tracking software, barcode wristbands and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) scanners, and commercial coaches and school buses equipped with mobile Global Positioning System (GPS) units.

Results: Simple process that registers 12,000 evacuees and pets per hour (VN: and with permanent records remaining after the crisis is over)

Wristbands are scanned as evacuees board GPS-equipped buses and again upon arrival at the sheltering destination, (VN: Is that like FEMA camps?) updating the information at each point and sending the data wirelessly to a centralized database maintained by the University of Texas Center for Space Research.

The TX SNETS solution allows the state to monitor the evacuees’ status, keep family members and pets together, and provide information to loved ones at each stage in the evacuation process.  Improving the evacuation process through integrated technology.

When Hurricane Katrina hit the southern coast of the United States, approximately 475,000 evacuees fled
to Texas. More than 126,000 had no identification,  9,000 were special needs individuals, and 2,000
children under eighteen were unaccompanied by an adult. “It was a major relief operation,” recalls Chief Jack Colley, Governor’s Division of Emergency  Management (GDEM).

The GDEM invited Motorola (VN: check out their board of directors, JP Morgan, Chase, etc, they love us too since we are their cattle/assets) and other private sector technology providers to develop an effective, secure solution that would help the state evacuate and track special needs individuals quickly, efficiently and safely. With special needs redefined as anyone who could not self-evacuate for any reason, the numbers of potential evacuees increased dramatically, adding layers of complexity to the challenge. A rapid
registration process and a secure method of tracking each evacuee, as well as their pets, wheelchairs, walkers, and other necessities, throughout the entire evacuation process was critical.  (VN: If we assume Depopulation and Eugenics are a consideration here, then those special needs people will be in serious jeopardy just like in Katrina).

Motorola partnered with Retriever Software (VN: A Geneva board member, Rothschilds BIS bank is there) and Radiant RFID (VN: check out this board chairman, its interesting, this is an international effort here, but this one is a texas company with a very interesting chairman) to create an integrated technology solution using Radiant RFID’s customized bar-coded RFID wristbands and RFID portals, Retriever’s tracking application software, and Motorola’s rugged MC9094 handheld computers.

“We worked with about 58 private groups to make this system happen and those groups were essential
to developing answers that work in the real world,” Chief Colley says. “For example, Motorola gives us
great support from border security to evacuations.  They are there when we need them most. We’re
dealing with life and death, not proficiency issues, so the technology has to work, it cannot fail.”

Smooth efficient registration process

The process is simple. Upon arrival at a designated evacuation center, National Guardsmen collect and
enter each family’s information into the tracking system using a laptop computer or a MC9094 handheld wireless computer. A rugged device designed for the most demanding, high stress field environment, the MC9094 provides emergency personnel with true mobility, enabling them to register evacuees on-site at the evacuation hub. Data input errors are reduced by a user-friendly software application with a standard template. And  the rapid deployment of over 500 handheld mobile computers meant that the equipment would be there when it was needed.

“The contributions made by the Motorola team were nothing less than spectacular,” says Cynthia Rubio,
president of Radiant RFID. “Product knowledge, responsiveness and perseverance were huge factors
that contributed to the successful deployment of this system.”

Keeping family and pets together and loved ones informed. After the data is collected, each family member
is given an RFID wristband with a serial number that matches the record in the database. Pets and physical or medical equipment are given corresponding tags. The information is wirelessly transmitted to the master database housed at the University of Texas Center for Space Research in  Austin.  (VN:  A Carnegie Foundation recipient, we know about this foundation,  as well as massive grants from the government and they will house the master data base.... yessiree) 
“The scale of mass evacuation demands a new approach to command control and the creation of a
system that registers evacuees in real-time at their departure points,” says Dr. Gordon Wells, Program
Manager, Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin. “One of our jobs (at the Center) is to
track the location, capacity and current occupancy of the evacuation shelters. So tracking the location of
the evacuees as they move through the process and monitoring bus locations through GPS technology
was a natural activity we could expand on.”

Tracking enabled by wireless devices  (VN:  your going to really love this one. If you know anything about shipping cattle or assets, then words like "manifest" will definitely ring a bell,  branding would be about the same thing.)

National Guardsmen also use the Motorola handheld computers to scan the wristbands as evacuees
board buses for transport to the shelters. Before departure, the Guardsmen print out a manifest for
the driver to help account for each evacuee after fuel stops and comfort station breaks. Buses are equipped with GPS units, enabling the Center for Space Research to track and report their locations and speeds every 30 seconds.  (VN:  now that is control, every 30 seconds when you have valuable cargo like that)

Upon arrival at the shelter, evacuees either walk through an RFID portal or their wristbands are manually scanned, updating their status and  transmitting the information to the master database. A printed manifest is then provided to the shelter host. TX SNETS keeps evacuees, their pets, and their medical necessities together and allows family members to contact the Texas 2-1-1 information and referral service to track evacuees’ status and current location. (VN:  you read this and you just feel so good about how much they care about you, don't you?)

“Time is the enemy,” says Chief Colley. “You have to  help people very quickly. TX SNETS is a very simple process and it works.  Taking care of our citizens first and foremost."

By the time Hurricane Dean threatened the Texas coast in August of 2007, the state was ready and waiting
with TX SNETS securely in place and poised to evacuate 150,000 people on 3,000 buses.

“When you’re dealing with people, not just assets, there is a moral responsibility to get it right,” says Sheila

Donnelly, president, Retriever Software. “When the system is allowed to proceed as planned and exercised
by Emergency Operations, the information is moved efficiently and accurately and the level of confidence
and calmness increases.”

For the state, TX SNETS provides a smooth, efficient process of effectively allocating search and rescue
resources for those who for any reason cannot self-evacuate. For evacuees, it means no longer having to
worry about losing a child in the chaos, leaving behind a pet, or being separated from critical special-needs
devices. For loved ones, it means keeping tabs on family members. And for all, it controls the turmoil and
reduces the extreme stress of a mass evacuation.

“We live in a world now where catastrophic events occur, whether man-made or natural,” says Chief Colley.
“Our priority is to take care of our citizens first and foremost, and in the 21st century we should be able to do
that. We had great support from the private sector and Motorola was one of them in a big way.”

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