Population Warning via SMS — MarketLocator for Emergency Alerting
instarea presents to the Ministry of Interior of the Slovak Republic on repurposing MarketLocator's geolocation infrastructure for population early warning systems via targeted SMS. The system uses real-time geofencing and multi-operator subscriber detection across Slovak Telekom, Orange, and O2 to deliver emergency alerts to people physically present in an affected zone within 60–90 seconds — achieving 92%+ delivery rates in pilot tests.
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