From Monday, October 24thSome mobile phones of elected citizens in each autonomous community will emit a series of beeps.. will be one warning sound will radiate the speaker of the mobile phone and at the same time have a vibration and a message on the screen. This beep and the message in large letters that will appear on the screen will be the way Civil Protection will have to warn people about a flood, earthquake, volcanic eruption, high pollution event or any other type of event. emergency or accident.
This new security system is included in the Spanish emergency protocols and it will be a test or exercise that will take hundreds of mobile phones. It’s called Es-Alert, and it’s the new (in fact, instant) method of emergency alerts to the population. The Home Office wants to test it before integrating it into the National Warning Network.
this new emergency alert systemKnown as the “reverse 112”, it’s been in testing for a few days now. tests in phones that beep and receive warning messagesthey will start with this calendar:
- Monday, October 24On selected phones of citizens of Cantabria, Andalusia and Asturias.
- Thursday, October 27Same tests in Galicia, Valencian Community and Extremadura.
- Wednesday, November 2 It’s up to Catalonia, Navarra, Madrid, the Balearic Islands, Murcia and Aragon.
- Thursday, November 10In the Canary Islands, Ceuta, Castilla y León and the Basque Country.
- On Wednesday, November 16, In Castilla-La Mancha, Melilla and La Rioja.
When elected citizens of these communities receive beeps, The text message will explain to them that this is just a test. and they don’t need to do anything or leave any place.
However, although there is a scheduled timetable for the emergency alert test that will make cellphones beep, what is not yet known is when the warning will be. Also, although current mobile phones are preconfigured to receive true wireless emergency alerts, You may not have turned on the test security warnings, in this case it will not reach you.
Emergency beeps on all mobile phones
The National Civil Protection System, which is in the process of improvement, already has other public warning systems for disaster situationssome were tested at a very local level during the La Palma volcano crisis, but this promises to be the newest and fastest and most effective.
System thanks to mobile signal repeater poles select all phone numbers in a given area communicates with terminals as soon as it is activated by an emergency center that is not necessarily government owned.
Es-Alert technology has been paid for with recovery and durability funds, as explained by Interior. Distribution started last June 21Following the cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation.