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19-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Mass Notification Systems Market Worth Over US$ 46.43 Billion By 2033
Robust regulations, relentless disasters, smart-city investments, and AI-enabled innovations position North America as market leader, Europe as compliance-driven contender, and rapidly urbanizing, hazard-prone Asia Pacific as the fastest-growing frontier for mass notification systems globally. Chicago, May 19, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global mass notification systems market was valued at US$ 14.62 billion in 2024 and is anticipated to reach US$ 46.43 billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 13.7% during the forecast period 2025–2033. In the United States, regulators remain the single biggest catalyst pushing the mass notification systems market into mainstream critical-infrastructure budgets., the Federal Emergency Management Agency has broadened access to the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS); its public dashboard shows 87,000 separate warning messages disseminated during calendar-year 2023, up from 71,000 in 2022. Furthermore, 1,480 federal, state and tribal alerting authorities now hold IPAWS certificates, creating a dense foundation for commercial platform vendors to plug into. Simultaneously, Canada's Alert Ready program logged 1,216 alert activations in 2023, many related to record-breaking wildfires in Alberta and Nova Scotia. Local television override tests further proved sub-five-second dissemination latencies. Request Sample Pages: Outside North America, the European Union's European Electronic Communications Code has taken full effect in the mass notification systems market, obliging the 27 member states to implement either cell broadcast or location-based SMS for public warnings. By March 2024, the European Commission confirmed operational cell-broadcast transmitters in 350 national and regional sites, with France, Germany and Spain accounting for nearly half of the active nodes. In the Asia-Pacific region, India's National Disaster Management Authority partnered with the Centre for Development of Telematics to roll out a Common Alerting Protocol gateway covering 33 states; pilot runs in August 2023 pushed 146 million multilingual test alerts in a single afternoon, underlining the scale regulators now expect from modern platforms. Key Findings in the Mass Notification Systems Market Market Forecast (2033) US$ 46.43 billion CAGR 13.7% Largest Region (2024) North America (34.0%) By Component Solution (81.30%) By Application Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (42.20%) By Deployment Cloud (53%) By Industry Government And Defense Sector (30.80%) By Organization Large Enterprises (73.5%) By Type In-Building (50.9%) Top Drivers Nationwide emergency alert mandates expanding compliance requirements across jurisdictions rapidly. Increased multi-channel device penetration enabling ubiquitous reach for critical communications. Heightened climate disasters driving enterprise investment in resilient notification infrastructure Top Trends Nationwide emergency alert mandates expanding compliance requirements across jurisdictions rapidly. Increased multi-channel device penetration enabling ubiquitous reach for critical communications. Heightened climate disasters driving enterprise investment in resilient notification infrastructure Top Challenges Nationwide emergency alert mandates expanding compliance requirements across jurisdictions rapidly. Increased multi-channel device penetration enabling ubiquitous reach for critical communications. Heightened climate disasters driving enterprise investment in resilient notification infrastructure Enterprise Resilience Mandates Propel Cloud-Native Platforms And AI-Driven Orchestration Capabilities Corporate risk managers are no longer treating emergency communications as an optional insurance policy; instead the capability is becoming a core pillar of enterprise resilience charters, giving a boost to the mass notification systems market. According to SEC Form 10-K filings, Everbridge supported 6,530 paying customers at the close of Q1 2024 and processed 3.2 billion individual voice, text, email and mobile-app notifications during 2023. Meanwhile, private-equity-backed OnSolve reported 2.5 billion message deliveries across 190 countries last year, and rising inflows from logistics, technology and energy verticals. This volume illustrates that large employers have moved from isolated building-level alarms to globally coordinated cloud services that sit directly on top of HR systems such as Workday and SAP SuccessFactors. The value proposition extends beyond life-safety compliance. Technology manufacturer in the mass notification systems market Bosch saved an audited eight hours per incident after integrating AlertMedia with its MES dashboards, as automated shelter-in-place instructions traveled to 9,400 shop-floor smartwatches in under 12 seconds. In healthcare, AdventHealth deployed Singlewire Informacast across 57 hospitals, stitching nurse call, fire panels and metal detectors into a unified incident-response workflow; board minutes show a 39-minute reduction in average code-black cycle time, freeing operating rooms faster. These concrete operational gains are resonating with CFOs and explain why Gartner counted 550 net-new enterprise deployments in 2023 alone, with financial services, manufacturing and higher education leading in ticket volume across global helpdesk queues last year. Telecommunications Evolution Unlocks 5G, Cell Broadcast And IoT Alert Expansion Rapid advances in telecommunications are enlarging the physical reach and technical richness of the mass notification systems market. Fifth-generation (5G) standalone networks—now live in 172 countries according to the GSMA's April 2024 update—support cell broadcast throughput over 2,000 characters and rich media attachments. Verizon's Phoenix pilot in October 2023 demonstrated the capability by pushing 22,000 bilingual evacuation alerts with embedded dynamic maps to subscribers located inside a 1.6-mile polygon, all within nine seconds. The test, achieved on a public network slice, proved that broadcast alerts can coexist with latency-sensitive traffic such as autonomous shuttle telemetry without congestion. Regulators have taken notice and are drafting service-level targets accordingly. Concurrently, Internet-of-Things growth is escalating the number of machines that can both generate and receive alerts in the mass notification systems market. The National Fire Protection Association estimates that 1.1 million network-connected fire panels were operational in US commercial buildings at the end of 2023, each capable of publishing Common Alerting Protocol feeds directly to cloud dashboards. On the receive side, Apple's iOS 17 Safety Check now consumes CAP messages natively, adding roughly 1.4 billion devices to the global alertable footprint. As telcos, handset vendors and sensor manufacturers standardize around 3GPP and OASIS specifications, platform providers gain unprecedented pathways to deliver hyper-localized, multimedia warnings at population scale. Adopters forecast that sensor-to-human alert loops will contract to under three seconds by 2026. Cross-Industry Case Studies Demonstrate Tangible Risk Mitigation And Productivity Gains Concrete field deployments reveal how well-designed notification workflows translate into measurable risk mitigation. When a wind-driven grass fire threatened the outskirts of Calgary in August 2023, the city's Everbridge-powered Alberta Emergency Alert system issued 10 sequential shelter directives and evacuation orders to 1.4 million residents. Fire command later confirmed zero civilian casualties and a 25-minute improvement in perimeter clearance compared with a similarly sized 2020 event that relied on sirens and social media alone. In the United States, Penn State University's multi-channel alerting platform reached 125,000 students across 24 campuses during an active-shooter hoax in October 2023, calming rumors by countering false TikTok videos within four minutes. Industrial environments show comparable value in the mass notification systems market. Jaguar Land Rover's Solihull plant in the UK integrated OnSolve with SCADA alarms and dispatch logs. In 2023 the site recorded 17 unplanned chemical releases; in each case, digital instructions were sent to 5,200 employees in fewer than 15 seconds, and post-event audits documented 680 fewer lost production hours compared with 2022. Airlines are also leaning in: Lufthansa moved 132,000 crew members to a Singlewire backbone that ties gate changes, severe weather alerts and union negotiations into a single feed. By centralizing notifications the carrier shaved five minutes off its average aircraft turnaround time—a critical metric now that European slots are fully subscribed. Regulators cite outcomes in best-practice guidance worldwide. Competitive Landscape Shows Consolidation, Vertical Specialization, And Venture Capital Momentum As demand accelerates, the competitive dynamics of the mass notification systems market are reshaping. From January 2020 through March 2024, PitchBook logged 14 acquisitions focused on emergency communications, with larger suites buying niche specialists in acoustic sensors, multilanguage text-to-speech and threat intelligence. The most recent example arrived in February 2024, when Motorola Solutions folded Edgybees' geospatial video analytics into its Rave Mobile Safety division to enrich situational-awareness overlays. Private capital remains equally active; Crunchbase data shows venture and growth funds have injected $420 million into notification and incident-management startups since 2020, led by a $170 million Series D for AlertMedia in May 2023. Horizontal consolidation is matched by deeper vertical specialization in the mass notification systems market. Raptor Technologies now dominates K-12 education with its Raptor Alert product installed in 10,200 US schools, while Vocera (now part of Stryker) focuses on hospital nurse-call integrations covering 1,950 medical facilities. At the platform layer, differentiation centers on AI. Everbridge's Risk Intelligence Service parses 45,000 open-source data feeds and delivers pre-built impact assessments in 16 languages, whereas OnSolve's Real-Time Risk solution computes storm-track polygons every two minutes using NOAA radar. The net effect is an ecosystem where buyers can select between all-in-one suites and specialized vertical offerings, yet still expect interoperability via open CAP, WebHooks and REST APIs, driving procurement cycles that increasingly favor flexible subscription consumption models today. Technology Convergence With Security, GIS And Analytics Generates New Revenue The current innovation cycle in the mass notification systems market is characterized by convergence between mass notification, physical security and advanced analytics. Out of the top 15 video-management-software vendors ranked by Omdia, 12 had shipped documented REST or MQTT bridges to notification platforms by Q4 2024. Genetec, for instance, now allows camera analytics that detect crowd crush to trigger OnSolve alerts without operator intervention. Similarly, LenelS2's BlueDiamond mobile access control shares badge swipe anomalies with Everbridge, automatically escalating anomalies to global security operations centers when employee counts exceed maximum occupancy thresholds. This bidirectional flow of data eliminates manual phone trees and slashes mean time to acknowledge events to under one minute across benchmarked pilots. Geospatial intelligence adds another layer of value to the growth of the mass notification systems market. Esri and Google Maps Platform each launched turn-key mass-alert toolkits in 2023, enabling emergency managers to draw incident zones and instantly preview population counts, evacuation routes and ADA-compliant facilities. Analytics companies are also entering the fray: Palantir's Foundry integrates with Singlewire to correlate supply-chain disruptions against supplier density maps, helping manufacturers reroute cargo pre-emptively. Monetization extends beyond software licenses; Verizon is bundling prioritized network slices for public-safety notifications, while device makers such as Garmin embed satellite SOS subscriptions. Collectively, these linkages create new revenue touchpoints that go far beyond one-time platform fees, reinforcing the market's resilience against pure-play commoditization with insurance and infrastructure partners emerging. Deployment Challenges Include Interoperability, Alert Fatigue, Privacy And Compliance Hurdles Despite rapid growth and cloud based deployments are not without obstacles in the mass notification systems market. The International Telecommunications Union recorded 704 documented false or erroneous public alerts worldwide between 2019 and 2023, including the well-publicized Hawaii ballistic missile false alarm. Such incidents erode citizen trust and magnify so-called alert fatigue—a phenomenon the World Health Organization equates to 'warning desensitization.' Enterprise environments feel the strain as well; Ford's 2023 internal audit uncovered 220 cases where employees disabled mobile push notifications after receiving more than 15 low-priority messages in a single week. Over-communication directly undermines the primary objective of timely, actionable outreach. Several state emergency managers acknowledge diverting resources to rebuild trust campaigns. Interoperability and privacy represent additional hurdles to the growth of the mass notification systems market. Although the Common Alerting Protocol is an OASIS standard, laboratories from the European Telecommunications Standards Institute report that 77 of 210 vendor gateways tested in 2023 failed schema validation against version 1.2, often due to non-standard character encodings. Meanwhile, data-sovereignty laws are tightening. India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, effective March 2024, restricts the cross-border movement of personal contact data, compelling international vendors to stand up local hosting or cede deals to domestic rivals such as Bharat Alerts. Compliance teams must therefore navigate a patchwork of retention, encryption and audit requirements without sacrificing the split-second latency that life-critical alerts demand. Vendor consortiums are drafting conformance tests to close these gaps. Browse the Table of Contents to access and purchase individual report sections: Future Outlook Highlights Predictive, Multilingual And Contextual Notifications Dominating 2024-2028 Looking ahead, the mass notification systems market is set to pivot from reactive blast messaging toward predictive and context-aware outreach. IDC projects daily emergency and operational notifications to top 25 billion by 2028, driven largely by machine-generated events. Generative AI accelerates this shift: in January 2024, AlertMedia released an OpenAI-powered editor that drafts situation reports from sensor data and local news in under three seconds, halving dispatcher workload during complex incidents. Language coverage is expanding as well; Everbridge now ships 144 pre-translated templates spanning Amharic, Tagalog and Ukrainian, reflecting migrations triggered by 195 officially cataloged natural disasters in 2023. Micro-targeting will complement volume growth in the mass notification systems market. Qualcomm's 2024 Snapdragon Satellite spec enables device-level geotracking granularity of one square meter, allowing authorities to issue evacuation orders only to homes inside a fast-moving wildfire's projected plume. At the same time, Blue Origin and SpaceX have scheduled 52 low-earth-orbit launches through 2026 that will improve latency for satellite push alerts to under one-second round-trip. Finally, public-private partnerships are maturing; the US National Weather Service will open its HazCollect APIs to private push vendors in late 2024, promising richer meteorological overlays. Taken together, these advances suggest a market entering its most transformative phase yet, where precision, speed and inclusivity define competitive success. Industry analysts anticipate new legislative mandates that will further incentivize proactive investments worldwide by 2025. Global Mass Notification Market Major Players: Siemens Everbridge Honeywell Eaton Motorola Solutions Blackboard IBM Google BlackBerry Johnson Controls Singlewire Software Rave Mobile Safety American Signal Corporation (ASC) ATI Systems Regroup Mass Notification AlertMedia KONEXUS CrisisGo Netpresenter Omnilert Ruvna F24 Alertus Mircom Iluminar Omingo Klaxon Technologies OnSolve Crises Control Voyent Alert! Squadcast Other Prominent Players Key Segmentation: By Component: Solution Services By Deployment: On Premise Cloud Based By Application: Public Alert & Warning Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Others By Organization: Large enterprises Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) By Type: In-Building Wide Area Distributed Recipient By Industry: BFSI Energy and Utilities Education Healthcare Government and Defense Transportation and logistics Others By Region: North America Europe Asia Pacific Middle East & Africa (MEA) South America Have Questions? Reach Out Before Buying: About Astute Analytica Astute Analytica is a global market research and advisory firm providing data-driven insights across industries such as technology, healthcare, chemicals, semiconductors, FMCG, and more. We publish multiple reports daily, equipping businesses with the intelligence they need to navigate market trends, emerging opportunities, competitive landscapes, and technological advancements. 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13-05-2025
- Politics
LA County wildfire alert mistakenly sent to millions due to tech glitch
LOS ANGELES -- A technological glitch caused an emergency alert to be mistakenly sent to millions of Los Angeles County residents in January rather than only those in the proximity of a wildfire, according to a congressional report. The mistaken alert on Jan. 9 came as residents were on edge two days after fierce winds and deadly wildfires ripped across Los Angeles County hillsides and burned through communities. The alert message was only supposed to go to residents in the San Fernando Valley facing an evacuation warning due to the Kenneth Fire. The report issued Monday by Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia of Long Beach found that Los Angeles County officials properly coded the alert to reach the wireless devices of a more limited group of people. But the alert was sent to residents across the county of 10 million people, and without specific geographic information, prompting concern and confusion after two days of devastating wildfires. That's because the coding for the precise location didn't get saved into the IPAWS federal channel for local emergency alerts, which software provider Genasys believed might be due to a network disruption, the report said. 'The initial false alert is believed to be caused by technology issues with third-party technology vendor Genasys,' the report said. The report did not address how emergency alerts were handled in the Eaton and Palisades fires. In the Eaton Fire in Altadena, evacuation orders went out long after houses were reported burning. LA County officials have launched their own independent review, led by a third party, of evacuation policies and the emergency alert system. An initial report released last month said nearly three dozen people who responded to the fires had been interviewed and more interviews were planned. The next report on the review is expected by July 27. In the Palisades fire, residents said they received notification about the blaze on their phones well after they could see it coming and decided on their own to leave, reporting by The Associated Press found. Garcia's report suggested that Los Angeles County officials could use more location-specific language in the text of warnings so residents know where they are intended for, and the need for enhanced training and standardized software to prevent issues like the faulty alert issued in connection with the Kenneth Fire. 'The lessons from the Kenneth Fire should not only inform reforms, but serve as a catalyst to modernize the nation's alerting infrastructure before the next disaster strikes,' the report said.
Hamilton Spectator
13-05-2025
- Politics
- Hamilton Spectator
LA County wildfire alert mistakenly sent to millions due to tech glitch
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A technological glitch caused an emergency alert to be mistakenly sent to millions of Los Angeles County residents in January rather than only those in the proximity of a wildfire, according to a congressional report. The mistaken alert on Jan. 9 came as residents were on edge two days after fierce winds and deadly wildfires ripped across Los Angeles County hillsides and burned through communities. The alert message was only supposed to go to residents in the San Fernando Valley facing an evacuation warning due to the Kenneth Fire . The report issued Monday by Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia of Long Beach found that Los Angeles County officials properly coded the alert to reach the wireless devices of a more limited group of people. But the alert was sent to residents across the county of 10 million people, and without specific geographic information, prompting concern and confusion after two days of devastating wildfires. That's because the coding for the precise location didn't get saved into the IPAWS federal channel for local emergency alerts, which software provider Genasys believed might be due to a network disruption, the report said. 'The initial false alert is believed to be caused by technology issues with third-party technology vendor Genasys,' the report said. The report did not address how emergency alerts were handled in the Eaton and Palisades fires. In the Eaton Fire in Altadena, evacuation orders went out long after houses were reported burning. LA County officials have launched their own independent review, led by a third party, of evacuation policies and the emergency alert system. An initial report released last month said nearly three dozen people who responded to the fires had been interviewed and more interviews were planned. The next report on the review is expected by July 27. In the Palisades fire, residents said they received notification about the blaze on their phones well after they could see it coming and decided on their own to leave, reporting by The Associated Press found. Garcia's report suggested that Los Angeles County officials could use more location-specific language in the text of warnings so residents know where they are intended for, and the need for enhanced training and standardized software to prevent issues like the faulty alert issued in connection with the Kenneth Fire. 'The lessons from the Kenneth Fire should not only inform reforms, but serve as a catalyst to modernize the nation's alerting infrastructure before the next disaster strikes,' the report said.
Yahoo
13-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
LA County wildfire alert mistakenly sent to millions due to tech glitch
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A technological glitch caused an emergency alert to be mistakenly sent to millions of Los Angeles County residents in January rather than only those in the proximity of a wildfire, according to a congressional report. The mistaken alert on Jan. 9 came as residents were on edge two days after fierce winds and deadly wildfires ripped across Los Angeles County hillsides and burned through communities. The alert message was only supposed to go to residents in the San Fernando Valley facing an evacuation warning due to the Kenneth Fire. The report issued Monday by Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia of Long Beach found that Los Angeles County officials properly coded the alert to reach the wireless devices of a more limited group of people. But the alert was sent to residents across the county of 10 million people, and without specific geographic information, prompting concern and confusion after two days of devastating wildfires. That's because the coding for the precise location didn't get saved into the IPAWS federal channel for local emergency alerts, which software provider Genasys believed might be due to a network disruption, the report said. 'The initial false alert is believed to be caused by technology issues with third-party technology vendor Genasys,' the report said. The report did not address how emergency alerts were handled in the Eaton and Palisades fires. In the Eaton Fire in Altadena, evacuation orders went out long after houses were reported burning. LA County officials have launched their own independent review, led by a third party, of evacuation policies and the emergency alert system. An initial report released last month said nearly three dozen people who responded to the fires had been interviewed and more interviews were planned. The next report on the review is expected by July 27. In the Palisades fire, residents said they received notification about the blaze on their phones well after they could see it coming and decided on their own to leave, reporting by The Associated Press found. Garcia's report suggested that Los Angeles County officials could use more location-specific language in the text of warnings so residents know where they are intended for, and the need for enhanced training and standardized software to prevent issues like the faulty alert issued in connection with the Kenneth Fire. 'The lessons from the Kenneth Fire should not only inform reforms, but serve as a catalyst to modernize the nation's alerting infrastructure before the next disaster strikes,' the report said.
Associated Press
13-05-2025
- Politics
- Associated Press
LA County wildfire alert mistakenly sent to millions due to tech glitch
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A technological glitch caused an emergency alert to be mistakenly sent to millions of Los Angeles County residents in January rather than only those in the proximity of a wildfire, according to a congressional report. The mistaken alert on Jan. 9 came as residents were on edge two days after fierce winds and deadly wildfires ripped across Los Angeles County hillsides and burned through communities. The alert message was only supposed to go to residents in the San Fernando Valley facing an evacuation warning due to the Kenneth Fire. The report issued Monday by Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia of Long Beach found that Los Angeles County officials properly coded the alert to reach the wireless devices of a more limited group of people. But the alert was sent to residents across the county of 10 million people, and without specific geographic information, prompting concern and confusion after two days of devastating wildfires. That's because the coding for the precise location didn't get saved into the IPAWS federal channel for local emergency alerts, which software provider Genasys believed might be due to a network disruption, the report said. 'The initial false alert is believed to be caused by technology issues with third-party technology vendor Genasys,' the report said. The report did not address how emergency alerts were handled in the Eaton and Palisades fires. In the Eaton Fire in Altadena, evacuation orders went out long after houses were reported burning. LA County officials have launched their own independent review, led by a third party, of evacuation policies and the emergency alert system. An initial report released last month said nearly three dozen people who responded to the fires had been interviewed and more interviews were planned. The next report on the review is expected by July 27. In the Palisades fire, residents said they received notification about the blaze on their phones well after they could see it coming and decided on their own to leave, reporting by The Associated Press found. Garcia's report suggested that Los Angeles County officials could use more location-specific language in the text of warnings so residents know where they are intended for, and the need for enhanced training and standardized software to prevent issues like the faulty alert issued in connection with the Kenneth Fire. 'The lessons from the Kenneth Fire should not only inform reforms, but serve as a catalyst to modernize the nation's alerting infrastructure before the next disaster strikes,' the report said.
