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flooding, storms and so on), Amber and Silver alerts, safety and security, and also
general advisories.
Emergency alert messages are composed and transmitted using the Common Alert
Protocol (CAP). CAP is an XML-based application that allows a warning message
to be consistently disseminated simultaneously over many warning systems to
many proprietary applications and devices. By using XML, messages can be
composed, transmitted, and received across a broad range of proprietary AV and
other devices.
Generally, CAP format alerts can also trigger secondary functions, such as alert
tones, horns, buzzers, and sirens. They can be used to switch on AV equipment to
display alerts. The system also complies with the Emergency Alert System (EAS)
standard, an official, national warning system in the United States, which works in
coordination with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and a
number of US national emergency agencies.
For more details on CAP, go t
The VP-771 intercepts XML files over the Ethernet in the CAP format via the
dedicated EAS port from the alert generator server (for example, a FEMA server or a
proprietary CAP message generation application) for immediate alert message
triggering.
Figure 28: XML File Transfer
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