Public communication

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supports the following three devices for public alerting systems that disseminate alerts:

Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA 1.0 or WEA 2.0)

Non-Weather Emergency Message (NWEM)

Emergency Alerting System (EAS)

To send out alerts using these devices, you must first configure three devices through the

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Device Manager screen. You then create mass communication end users for each device: one for WEA, one for NWEM, and one for EAS.

Create end user accounts that include the device type in the account name: for example, “IPAWS_WEA”.