Expertise and Technology You Can Trust
Built on Proven Emergency Management Experience,
Available in a Fail-Safe Internet Environment
ESS experts have been designing, developing and deploying emergency management information systems for more than two decades. Emergency managers worldwide have trusted ESS software to help them address countless real-world disasters — small and large, human caused or natural — from the Oklahoma City terrorist bombing to hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We understand both the fundamental principles of emergency management and what it takes to apply them successfully in the course of your daily routine and real-time crisis response operations.
Essential Emergency™ is the next-generation emergency information management solution that builds on that tradition of excellence by providing even greater functionality and ease of use — any time, any where. Available as a hosted, on-demand or onsite system, Essential Emergency is the information system that you know will be there when you need it.
A Full Spectrum of Information Tools at Your Command
Spatial Information
To manage a crisis, you have to be able to see WHERE it is. Essential Emergency lets you do that and much more. Essential Emergency is tightly integrated with Microsoft's Virtual Earth™ — online mapping with oblique (bird's eye), satellite and aerial imagery — so your data can be displayed on its maps/photos at any time. Essential Emergency also works with ESRI's ArcInfo™ and other Geographic Information Systems. With this spatial data you can manage events far more effectively. For example, you can predict the level of response needed under given conditions by identifying geographically vulnerable facilities and reviewing hazard histories by type and intensity. Essential Emergency can also provide real time asset tracking by tapping into web-enabled, Global Positioning Satellite technology.
Emergency Message Center
Essential Emergency facilitates and tracks communications at all times. This NIMS/ICS-compliant system provides a full record of activities during both routine and crisis operations by automatically date stamping daily message traffic, and entering data into an incident-based operations log, including: personnel and resource deployments, completed SOPs, shelter openings, completed notifications, evacuated facilities, and casualties/impacts.
Automated Notifications
Essential Emergency is your mission assignment tool. It provides personnel with seamless, automated remote notification. Regulators and responders or key stakeholders who have been identified in organizational response plans are quickly notified using text-to-speech technology. Essential Emergency and its ESS Alert™ component send urgent notifications regarding a new incident to team members via desktop, laptop or a Windows-enabled Pocket PC. Team members can indicate availability, and personnel records are updated automatically with their status/availability to facilitate faster crisis response.
Task Tracking
Essential Emergency helps you make sure critical tasks get done. Crisis incidents unfold quickly, so you need an information system that is structured around your organizational workflow to track requests from tasking to close-out. Essential Emergency does exactly that. It stores, displays and dynamically tracks your team's progress in carrying out SOP checklists, including multiple concurrent, functional and hazard-specific tasks.
Briefings and Audits
Always be ready with the facts you need to update your chain of command (or the media) and document your operations. With automated status boards, SOP checklists, situation reports and more, Essential Emergency captures and organizes detailed information about your operations so you can quickly, accurately present them to others during or after the event.
Assessment and Recovery
Get your disaster recovery underway faster. Essential Emergency' damage assessment forms and tables simplify collection of information from initial "windshield" surveys. Its damage assessment tools are compatible with national standards for preliminary damage assessment reports.
