This is a PREMIUM APP
Want To Quickly Find Fuel, Food and Shelter During Storms, Floods, and Power Outages?
New Real-Time Data Service That Aggregates Information and Quickly Locates and Routes You
To Open Fuel, Food, Pharmacy & Hotel Locations Across The U.S.
To Open Fuel, Food, Pharmacy & Hotel Locations Across The U.S.
what is the fleet open/closed SERVICE?
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FLEET OPEN/CLOSED Service is a revolutionary new online business app, developed by the Multi-State Fleet Response Working Group that leverages global satellite technology and helps operations professionals locate and be routed to open places of business
that provide gasoline/diesel fuel, food/coffee, medications & medical
supplies, retails stores and hotel rooms during a disaster or prolonged power
outage within a city, county, state, region or across the United States.
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Created during SuperStorm SANDY in 2012, this services' data became a critical planning tool for thousands of businesses, the White House, federal government, the US Department of Defense, states and utility/delivery crews during first 2-3 days of the storm.
This unique web application aggregates data from various providers and provides real-time, 24x7, local/regional/national status of open/closed business locations across the U.S.: Fuel: BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobile, Conoco-Phillips, Halliburton Food: Burger King, Denny's, McDonalds, Sonic, KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut Lodging: Best Western; Choice Hotels, Wyndham Retail: Best Buy, Jiffy Lube, Lowe's, Carters, Foot locker, JC Pennys, Sears/Kmart, Carter Lumber and more... Pharmacy: CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens |
How does THIS TECHNOLOGY Work?
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Hughes Network Systems (www.hughes.com) provides satellite and land line connections to millions of worldwide customer locations to support point of sale systems, satellite TV, internet access and data connections to electronic cash registers and security systems.
Hughes has been providing these services for decades and manages their network connections from several operations centers around the world. The data that powers this app is provided out of their North American Operations Center in Maryland which is then fed to secure Amazon Cloud servers which feed the FLEET OPEN/CLOSED online app via the Internet. The simple underlying operational assumption is that the satellite communications links can provide a reasonable indication of whether the businesses are able to conduct business:
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What Are The benefits of the service?
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Who is the Fleet open/Closed SERVICE For?
This service is intended for “operational use” for private sector companies and state/local government agencies.
Based on prior disasters, the following groups are potential users of this service:
Based on prior disasters, the following groups are potential users of this service:
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PRIVATE SECTOR
Energy (Electric, Gas/Oil/ Nuclear) Petroleum and Chemical Retail and Big Box Stores Finance & Insurance Transportation (Ground, Rail, Air) Telecommunications Logistics & Supply Chain Medical & Pharmaceutical Food/Water WORKER CATEGORIES
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PUBLIC SECTOR
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who has used this SERVICE?
"This service provides us a capability which allows us to more efficiently deploy are essential personnel crews during disasters by driving around a foreign area looking for open gas stations and hotels"
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"During floods and storms that cause power extended power outages, this unique real-time service provides our County Executive and senior leadership with the ability to better inform the public and county first responders on where they can purchase gas, coffee, food, water, medicine, medical supplies and hotel rooms."
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William F. Flynn
Deputy Assistant Secretary Department Homeland Security - Infrastructure Protection LinkedIn Profile “This capability provided an extremely valuable resource to help communities quickly recover and reconstitute during and after a major incident during SANDY.”
“Our response teams had their hands full with restoring and rebuilding the network following the devastating impacts of Hurricane Sandy. The last thing they needed to do was spend precious time (or fuel) on locating and identifying businesses that were open and able to provide essential supplies or accommodations. Being able to provide our response teams with this type of intelligence and situational awareness allowed us to utilize our resources more effectively.”
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“This service helps us efficiently deploy our essential personnel teams into disaster areas where power is out. This allows us to quickly locate open fuel, food and hotels for them without have them waste valuable time driving around a town they are not familiar with trying to find these needed services."
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what IS A recent use case?
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EVENT: Snow / Ice Storms Across Central, Northeast and New England States.
PROBLEM: Inbound, out of region utilities, essential personnel, and supply chain companies don't know where to go to buy fuel, food and other critical services when working in a different state or an unknown environment. They need to be able to locate and be routed to stores quickly that are open and near their present location. They need reliable information to make these decisions that is not based on rumor, tweets and social media sources that many times are wrong. APPLICATION: The Open/Closed Service provides accurate store locations and status information based on data links to onsite POS (Point of Sale) systems and internet connects. Updated hourly, this service provided companies with information on where the fuel/food/retail/pharmacy stores and hotels were open and/or closed so their people didn't need to waste time and fuel driving around. |
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