Purpose
1. Instantly deliver time-sensitive notifications to all relevant airstrip personnel and stakeholders regarding emergencies (e.g., runway closures, security incidents, severe weather).
2. Ensure message consistency and regulatory compliance in all outgoing communications for traceability and audit.
3. Reach recipients via multi-channel (SMS, email, voice, push, chat) to maximize the deliverability during emergencies.
4. Automate tracking of acknowledgments and escalation for non-responses.
5. Integrate communication records into government aviation logs and incident management systems.
Trigger Conditions
1. Emergency detected on the airstrip (automatic or manual input).
2. Regulatory alert received from aviation authority APIs/webhooks.
3. Scheduled test of notification system.
4. Triggered from incident workflow in control tower or operations center.
5. Status change detected in runway monitoring or security sensors.
Platform Variants
1. Twilio SMS
• Feature/Setting: SMS API — Send bulk message via 'Messages.create', set recipient list, use messaging service SID.
2. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: Mail Send API — Use 'personalizations.to' for bulk dispatch, set high-priority flag.
3. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: Incoming Webhook — Configure webhook URL, send JSON payload for channel alert.
4. Slack
• Feature/Setting: chat.postMessage API — Target mass channels, use @here or @channel for mention, payload JSON format.
5. Zoom Phone
• Feature/Setting: SMS API — Use 'Send SMS' endpoint with grouped contact list.
6. PagerDuty
• Feature/Setting: Events API v2 — Trigger incident notifications, escalate per SOPs.
7. WhatsApp (via Meta API)
• Feature/Setting: 'messages' endpoint — Send template-based texts to bulk contacts using WhatsApp Business API.
8. Google Workspace (Gmail)
• Feature/Setting: Batch Send via Gmail API — Use 'users.messages.send' with dynamic recipient addressing.
9. Outlook 365
• Feature/Setting: Graph API 'sendMail' — Multi-recipient message, set 'importance' property.
10. Everbridge
• Feature/Setting: Mass Notification API — Use '/notifications' endpoint, define recipient groups.
11. Signal
• Feature/Setting: Signal-cli — Send message to group IDs from command line, integrate with automation script.
12. Telegram
• Feature/Setting: sendMessage API — Send to group or broadcast list, format with Markdown.
13. Facebook Messenger
• Feature/Setting: Messenger Send API — Batch dispatch via 'recipient' IDs list and message payload.
14. Amazon SNS
• Feature/Setting: Publish API — Topic-based SMS, email, and mobile push delivery.
15. ClickSend
• Feature/Setting: SMS API — 'send-sms' endpoint, set 'contacts' group for mass sending.
16. Mailgun
• Feature/Setting: Messages API — Use 'recipient-variables' for batch processing, set tracking tags.
17. Rocket.Chat
• Feature/Setting: REST API — Use 'chat.postMessage' to public/private channels.
18. Cisco Webex Teams
• Feature/Setting: Messages API — Direct message to team space, highlight emergency with markdown.
19. Zoom Chat
• Feature/Setting: Chat Messages API — Send bulk alerts to channel ID.
20. Plivo
• Feature/Setting: Message API — 'messages' endpoint, populate 'src', 'dst', and 'text'.
21. IVR with Asterisk
• Feature/Setting: Originate Call — Initiate prerecorded message to bulk endpoints via AMI/REST API.
Benefits
1. Immediate awareness and action during emergencies.
2. Broad redundancy reduces risk of undelivered messages.
3. Rapid escalation by automating delivery retries and alternate channels.
4. Centralized logging aids compliance and post-incident analysis.
5. Resource-efficient, reducing manual communications workload.
6. Scalability across multiple airstrip facilities or agencies.
Administration and Communication