The system, Be-Alert, that the Belgian Ministry of Home Affairs currently in 33 municipalities test from next year country are employable. That, says the ministry. The netherlands already have such a system.
The Belgian government wants the system to deploy in case of an emergency, such as a gas leak or drinking water contamination. The system is at the earliest next year nationwide, writes The Standard.
The Belgian Be-Alert is different in design from the Netherlands NL-Alert, which is already in use. Be-Alert can warn people with a regular sms text message, a voice message, e-mail or fax. In addition, the system operates initially on enrollment; only those who sign up on the site, will be notified. The test runs in 33 municipalities. A recent test showed that 94 percent of the people who had logged on, message received.
The Dutch system requires no login and is also working on a separate emergency channel on mobile networks instead of via regular sms. The options for emergency messages by voice message, e-mail or fax is missing in the Netherlands.
Be-Alert seems to be in the future a possibility to get to the emergency channel to use. The Belgian initiative of the crisis centre, which is under the Ministry of Interior. In an emergency situation must still rely on the dissemination of the warning via Twitter, Facebook, the website, a press release and omroepwagens.
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