Telematic Geospatial Addressing

neighborhood destroyedA Noreaster is heading up the eastern seaboard and forecasters predict that there is a potential for tornado activity, but no specific area is identified. The National Weather Service, having access to advanced Doppler radar, suspects certain areas, but will not be able to pinpoint specific areas or be able to warn the public until a few minutes before a tornado is spotted. After a few minutes a funnel cloud begins to form on radar in the Tyson Corners area and emergency notifications are sent to radio and television stations. However, in this scenario the visual data may not be geospatially referenced and cannot be broadcast on TV without first being related to a map by hand. Additionally, because vehicles are not Telematic enabled, and wireless networks and DTV Datacasting networks are not Geocode® enabled, the information does not reach motorists in the area of the storm and targeted TV viewers. As a result, the potential exists for higher amounts of injuries or fatalities.

Imagine the above scenario where all information devices; telematic enabled cars, GPS wireless phones, Internetworks, DTV stations and TV sets have Geocode® Internet addressing capabilities. In this scenario, because all devices are geospatial enabled, a broadcast message to all devices by geographic location, based on a single numeric geocoded address, can be sent. This provides a convergent, seamless delivery of critical information thereby alerting people by way of TV, wireless devices, Telematic enabled cars and the Internet of the potential dangerous weather conditions in a specific area.

GFI's Geocode® increases the productivity in geospatial analysis, reduces the data overhead for transmission of geospatial information over telecommunication networks, enables the representation of a pinpoint location down to within 3 cm horizontally and 1 meter vertically, and enables better information security by eliminating the use of alpha text characters necessary for most decryption techniques.

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