Emergency management system

Emergency management plays a vital role in utilities by providing them with the ability to monitor, analyze, and respond to emergencies. As utilities modernize their infrastructure and integrate network management, having a system that enables situational awareness and decision making is crucial for mitigating risks, minimizing disruptions, and helping to ensure public safety.

Utilities face a wide range of emergencies, including wide-spread power outages, gas leaks, water main breaks, wildfires, and extreme weather events. The ability to ingest, visualize, and analyze real-time data from sensors, IoT devices, and emergency reports empowers utilities to:

• Detect and respond to outages or infrastructure failures in real time to minimize service disruptions
• Monitor environmental conditions, such as flooding, wind speed, or seismic activity, to anticipate potential network disruptions and use predictive mitigation strategies to minimize impacts
• Automate alerts and dispatch field crews to affected areas based on live sensor data and predictive analytics
• Enhance safety and compliance by integrating emergency response plans with local agencies, ensuring a coordinated response to disasters
• Support real-time data sharing with first responders, government agencies, and disaster management teams

Additional resources:

• Learn more about the Real-time data streaming and analytics system pattern, a foundational ArcGIS system pattern that enables emergency management systems.
• Learn more about Emergency and Disaster Management with ArcGIS.