HbbTV a powerful asset to alert the population during crisis

Kurzfassung

Alerting people in case of a disaster is very important to limit the damage, personal losses and injuries. To this end, having an alerting system able to reach as many people as possible by diversifying the distribution channels is essential. The aim of this paper is to present a powerful and effective system to send alerts to people via broadcast on their television, using existing technologies on the receiver side, so that the procurement of new devices is unnecessary. The Alert4All project is developing a multi-channel public alert system that innovates using HbbTV, an already available worldwide standard on the mass market, to disseminate alerts.