Severe weather or other safety alerts on your InReach, Zoleo, etc.

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Adiona JS
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#1Dec 19, 2023, 10:59 PM
Hey everyone,

For many years, I have enjoyed lurking in this community for trip inspiration and as a place to learn about new products and solutions.

So, as I am looking for people who enjoy remote adventures to test a new service I have launched, I thought I'd reach out to the community here.

Almost three years ago, my travels took me to Cape Scott Provincial Park, at the northern end of Vancouver Island, a remote area on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, where I spent a week. While there, I realized I would have had no way of getting notified of a distant earthquake and the resulting tsunami. My Garmin inReach would have allowed me to call for help in an emergency or to get a current forecast, but it couldn't alert me in the case of an immediate risk. Imagine a similar situation in an area at risk from flash flooding, forest fires or a tornado. When I got back to civilization, I tried to find a solution. Surprisingly, no one offered a notification solution using a satellite device like inReach!

So, I founded a company called Adiona Alert to provide the service I needed but couldn't find.

After more than two years of work, including testing the service over the last six months throughout North America and issuing over 2000 safety alerts, including severe weather, to our small fleet of test devices, we are beginning to invite people to join our Early Access program so they can start using the service today for free!

Given where your adventures likely take you, I thought this community would be perfect to test the service.

As we slowly add small groups of users, it would be great if some of you would apply for our Early Access program. You would get these potentially live-saving alerts for free. All I ask in return is to share your thoughts, suggestions, and even complaints with my team to improve the solution.

I would love you to visit our website - AdionaAlert.com , to learn more and apply for our Early Access program.

Thanks for considering this, and let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

J.S.
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teddgram
5 posts
#2Dec 22, 2023, 6:38 AM
Adiona wrote:
Hey everyone,

For many years, I have enjoyed lurking in this community for trip inspiration and as a place to learn about new products and solutions.

So, as I am looking for people who enjoy remote adventures to test a new service I have launched, I thought I'd reach out to the community here.

Almost three years ago, my travels took me to Cape Scott Provincial Park, at the northern end of Vancouver Island, a remote area on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, where I spent a week. While there, I realized I would have had no way of getting notified of a distant earthquake and the resulting tsunami. My Garmin inReach would have allowed me to call for help in an emergency or to get a current forecast, but it couldn't alert me in the case of an immediate risk. Imagine a similar situation in an area at risk from flash flooding, forest fires or a tornado. When I got back to civilization, I tried to find a solution. Surprisingly, no one offered a notification solution using a satellite device like inReach!

So, I founded a company called Adiona Alert to provide the service I needed but couldn't find.

After more than two years of work, including testing the service over the last six months throughout North America and issuing over 2000 safety alerts, including severe weather, to our small fleet of test devices, we are beginning to invite people to join our Early Access program so they can start using the service today for free!

Given where your adventures likely take you, I thought this community would be perfect to test the service.

As we slowly add small groups of users, it would be great if some of you would apply for our Early Access program. You would get these potentially live-saving alerts for free. All I ask in return is to share your thoughts, suggestions, and even complaints with my team to improve the solution.

I would love you to visit our website - AdionaAlert.com , to learn more and apply for our Early Access program.

Thanks for considering this, and let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

J.S.
I am guessing that what the user needs to do here is grant access to their satellite communicator info to be able to send that person messages and also the information to know where they are. Then you are sending messages to that person via their communicator if the watches/warnings pop up near their area. Am I in the ballpark?

I used to run a website that did something similar, but it was limited to just the NWS office where I lived. It would constantly check the NWS website for information and send emails (or text messages) to users that singed up on my website.

I am interested in your service, but I only turn on my service once, maybe twice a year for a week, so I wouldn't be a good test subject.
Adiona JS
2 posts
#3Dec 22, 2023, 10:09 AM
teddgram wrote:
I am guessing that what the user needs to do here is grant access to their satellite communicator info to be able to send that person messages and also the information to know where they are. Then you are sending messages to that person via their communicator if the watches/warnings pop up near their area. Am I in the ballpark?

I used to run a website that did something similar, but it was limited to just the NWS office where I lived. It would constantly check the NWS website for information and send emails (or text messages) to users that singed up on my website.

I am interested in your service, but I only turn on my service once, maybe twice a year for a week, so I wouldn't be a good test subject.
Hello teddgram,

Yes, that's the idea. To provide location-specific alerts, we use the last location you or your device reported to your provider's servers, Garmin, Zoleo, etc. For inReach users, this requires that location tracking be enabled.

The main alerts are weather watches and warnings issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) and Environment and Climate Change Canada, the Canadian counterpart to the NWS, much like what you did but for the entire U.S. and Canada. These alerts range from flood and winter weather watches to severe thunderstorms or tornado warnings. In other regions, these could be flash flooding, wind warnings, frost warnings, etc.

Both agencies are also sources for tsunami warnings. In many regions of the U.S., the NWS also issues avalanche warnings when the conditions warrant it.
In addition, we monitor other safety alerts issued by State, Provincial, Tribal, regional or local public safety agencies that address a comprehensive range of hazards. Those alerts include drinking water advisories, active shooters, chemical releases, dam failures, missing persons, dangerous animals - you name it. The key is that alerts are issued when the local agency, which has the local knowledge and jurisdiction, believes the public would benefit from being notified of a significant risk in their community.

We source the alerts from several feeds managed by various government agencies, including FEMA in the U.S. and Public Safety Canada, and other feeds like the NWS weather alert feeds.

In all cases, the information and alerting agency is curated and vetted, and the feed is secured to ensure you get trusted and reliable information.

Feel free to sign up either for our Early Access program or simply for our mailing list. Even if you don't use your device for a few months, I'm sure you would be interested in what we are doing and have valuable insight.

Let me know if you have any questions.

J.S.

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