[South Florida DX Association] Fwd: Power Outage Portal

[Bill]

Sorry I screwed up Marty's call hi. It should have been KI4IQZ...my bad.


   From Marty KI4FIZ


Macrosoft Launches Free Storm, Outage Information Portal

Dec 1, 2010 1:28 PM

Macrosoft Inc., has introduction of the new and unique national electric
outage tracking system, OutageCentral.com. For the first time, a free
web site pulls together thousands of pieces of information to give
utility executives, contractors, news media and the general public
comprehensive electric outage information, severe weather alerts and
outage news across the nation. The site provides real time maps and
outage data to allow users to quickly and easily find outage information
in geographic areas of interest.

Now when a storm is threatening one area of the country, emergency
personnel are, in addition to tracking critical information about the
strength and direction of the storm, now able to ascertain the damage it
has already caused in other locations.

"Seeing how others are impacted by the same weather system moving your
way gives storm responders a jump on restoration planning and therefore
a jump on actual restoration," said Jason Singer, director of
Macrosoft's Utility Practice. "Emergency responders can quickly compile
a great deal of useful information from Outage Central and layer it into
their planning process."

Users only have to click on a state and select any of the listed
utilities to find out the number of outages on their system, the
location of the outages, weather alerts and news. This web access is
provided at no cost to allow those involved in storm planning and
restoration the critical information they need to make important decisions.

Outage Central is powered by Macrosoft and developed to complement
Resources on-Demand (ROD). Specifically designed for electric utilities,
ROD is a web browser-based, multi user tool that provides Utility
decision makers with the "Industry Standard tool" to manage crews, other
storm personnel, equipment, lodging, logistic support and the associated
costs. Resources on-Demand is currently being used by numerous utilities
in North America.

[Do not confuse “Macrosoft” with “Microsoft”]



"I am often asked how radio works.

Well, you see, wire telegraphy is like

a very long cat. You yank his tail in

New York and he meows in Los Angeles.

Do you understand this? Now, radio

is exactly the same, except that

there is no cat."

__Attributed to Albert Einstein

______________________________________________________________
SFDXA mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/sfdxa
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:SFDXA at mailman.qth.net

This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html