We are pleased to announce the following new and improved features in our April 2026 release!
Real-Time Hazard Alerts for EmergencyOS
| Required tier | Available in the EmergencyOS Corporate tier. |
EmergencyOS now integrates with trusted U.S. public emergency alert sources (FEMA’s IPAWS feed) to surface real-time external hazard alerts directly within the platform.
New capabilities include:
- Active Alerts card on the Dashboard displaying relevant alerts for impacted sites.
- Ability to start an emergency directly from the dashboard alert, reducing time from awareness to action.
- Geolocation-based relevance, ensuring only alerts affecting a site’s area are shown.
- Automated email notification to account admins and site admins with alert details, including event name, severity, urgency, site name, and expiration time.
- Ability to configure email notifications to selected users, roles, or contacts.
Alerts automatically appear and expire in sync with the source feed, ensuring teams always see up-to-date information.
Key benefits:
- Proactive Safety: Move from reactive response to early preparedness with real-time external threat visibility.
- Faster Response Times: Reduce the gap between awareness and action by triggering emergency profiles directly from an alert.
- One Source of Truth: Eliminate fragmented monitoring across news apps, weather services, and newsletters by centralizing internal and external risk visibility in one dashboard.
- Reduced Risk & Uncertainty: Faster awareness and documented response actions help demonstrate due diligence and strengthen compliance during audits or post-incident reviews.
Alert Only Profiles: Optional Visitor Kiosk Blocking
| Required tier | Available in the EmergencyOS Corporate tier. |
Alert Only emergency profiles can now be configured to keep the VisitorOS kiosk active during an event, instead of automatically blocking access.
- New setting Block Visitor Kiosk that can be toggled on or off is visible when the Alert Only response type is selected.
- Existing Alert Only profiles: Default to toggled ON (maintains current behavior and kiosk is blocked).
- For customers using Alert Only profiles to send frequent notification, we recommend toggling it off to avoid disrupting visitor flows.
- New Alert Only profiles: Default to toggled OFF (kiosk remains accessible).