Are You Receiving Westfield's Nixle Alerts?
The free service informs residents about traffic, emergency alerts and other advisories.
Westfield residents can now receive free alerts via text message, email or phone call courtesy of Nixle. The 24-hour, seven-day-a-week information service issues emergency alerts, important advisories, community updates and traffic information specific to Westfield. According to its website, Nixle, organized in January of 2007, seeks to "enable government agencies, small to medium size businesses and enterprise-level organizations to communicate in a secure way and exchange multimedia content over a trusted mobile platform." The following message, issued Friday, Jan. 4, is an example, of a standard alert users receive: "Chief David Wayman has an important message for the residents of Westfield! The Westfield Police Department's Parking …
In this Article:
Gary McCready
2:42 am on Monday, January 7, 2013
And some more googling provided this press release from the company: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nixle-maintains-free-service-and-expands-product-offering-117798283.html apparently, they wish to sooner or later charge agencies for non-emgergency use of the system - which I guess rules out testing and community messages. more ›