Onsite Operations & LogisticsPurpose
1.2. Ensures automated, real-time dissemination of severe weather updates, mitigating risks associated with sudden weather events.
1.3. Automates workflows for communicating relevant warnings (storms, winds, lightning, heat) to all in attendance.
1.4. Streamlines all weather-related notification processes using automation to eliminate manual delays, errors, and incomplete coverage.
Trigger Conditions
2.2. Forecast API calls detecting hazardous weather patterns initiate notification sequence.
2.3. Manual override automator for supervisors to send custom weather communications.
2.4. Schedule-based triggers for periodic weather status checks using automation.
Platform Variants
• Feature/Setting: "Send Message" API; automate outgoing SMS; configure From/To, message body, sender pool.
3.2. SendGrid
• Feature/Setting: "Send Single Email" API; automate outbound alert emails; input template, recipient, dynamic content insert.
3.3. Slack
• Feature/Setting: "Post Message to Channel"; automatedly post weather alerts to staff channels; select channel, message text.
3.4. Microsoft Teams
• Feature/Setting: "Send Message" to specific users or channels; automate notification text, JSON payload configuration.
3.5. WhatsApp (Cloud API)
• Feature/Setting: "Send Message" endpoint; automate bulk WhatsApp weather alerts, configure template and contacts.
3.6. Telegram Bot API
• Feature/Setting: "sendMessage"; automate alert posting; configure Bot Token, chat_id, message text.
3.7. Discord
• Feature/Setting: "Create Message"; automate posting to channels; set webhook URL, custom message format.
3.8. Pushover
• Feature/Setting: "Message API"; automate push notification; set user token, app token, message.
3.9. PagerDuty
• Feature/Setting: "Send Alert"; automate incident notifications; fill in routing key, alert description.
3.10. ServiceNow
• Feature/Setting: "Create Incident"; automate incident ticket for severe weather; configure category, description.
3.11. Mailchimp
• Feature/Setting: "Send Campaign"; automate email blasts with weather alert template to segmented lists.
3.12. ActiveCampaign
• Feature/Setting: "Create and Send Email"; automate weather communication; customize contact selection and template.
3.13. FCM (Firebase Cloud Messaging)
• Feature/Setting: "Send Notification"; automate push to event app users; configure topic/device tokens, message.
3.14. Apple Push Notification Service (APNs)
• Feature/Setting: "Send Push"; automate Apple device notifications; set payload, device targets.
3.15. Airship
• Feature/Setting: "Create and Send Notification"; automate cross-platform push; set audience, urgency.
3.16. SMS Magic
• Feature/Setting: "Send SMS"; automate regional or language-based text alerts to attendee lists.
3.17. OneSignal
• Feature/Setting: "Create Notification"; automated multi-channel push and email alerts to segments.
3.18. Zoom Chat
• Feature/Setting: "Send Chat Message"; automate group chat notification to operations or attendee rooms.
3.19. Google Chat
• Feature/Setting: "Spaces Messages.create"; automate weather updates to onsite teams; set webhook, message text.
3.20. Webex Teams
• Feature/Setting: "Create Message"; automate direct or space-based communication; configure content and recipient.
3.21. Salesforce Marketing Cloud
• Feature/Setting: "Triggered Send"; automate transactional or mass weather alert emails; set event, recipient list.
3.22. CivicReady
• Feature/Setting: Emergency Notification; automate public and staff blast through voice, text, email as required by event protocols.
Benefits
4.2. Automator eliminates manual notification bottlenecks, reducing risk and incident response time.
4.3. Automated solution supports multi-channel communication diversity for maximum coverage.
4.4. Enhances reliability and confidence in event operations via automatable notification chains.
4.5. Offloads operational load from staff, enabling focus on urgent onsite responses.
4.6. Ensures automated historic alert logs for post-event compliance and analysis.