Alertable vs WBEA AQE

Alertable emergency alerts and mass notifications keep you informed of emergencies and daily incidents in your community, workplace and school. Use Alertable for locations in Canada to stay aware and plan ahead. Check in advance for community events, closures, restrictions, hazards, danger and more. Know before you go. Keep yourself and others informed and up to date with Alertable. Notifications are fast, reliable and easy to see and hear. Personalize notifications by type and severity. Choose notifications for many locations including home, work, school, cottage, family and friends locations and more. Change your locations and other personalized options in Settings, after the fact. Key features: • Canada wide public safety alerts (from Canada’s Alert Ready emergency alert system) • severe weather alerts (from Environment and Climate Change Canada) • fast and reliable, highly optimized alert notifications • easy to setup and use • customizable, choose the types of critical, advisory and information alerts you wish to receive • targeted, alerts for only locations you are interested in • follow me, alerts for where you are at • maps, helpful for seeing the geographical area the alert is for • sharable, alerts can be shared on social media, email and text message • informative, emergency descriptions, impact areas and actions to take to remain safe • local, community notifications for closures, outages, restrictions, disruptions, re-openings, Interruptions and more • workplace, get alerts from your organization • accessible, full use by people with different abilities • multilingual, translate alerts into your device’s language setting

The Wood Buffalo Environmental Association (WBEA) monitors air quality in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo. The Air Quality Events (AQE) app provides users with notifications of air quality events that occur at WBEA air monitoring stations throughout the region. Users can choose what events and what stations to subscribe to and receive information about air quality events and links to WBEA data in near real-time.