Smartphone App Alerting Civilians of Rocket Strikes may be secret of Iron Dome's Success

Report: Israel Deploys Early-Warning App, Iron Dome Anti-Rocket Shield

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provision of real time alerts from Iron Dome tracking radar to targeted civilians via cell network and smartphone app may be more effective in limiting casualties than interceptor missiles. If British had it in WW2, they could have dodged the V2. Similar technology could be used in US for rapid moving Tornado and Wild Fire alerting.

why have Israeli casualties from rocket attacks been so low in the current round of volleys, with only one civilian casualty on the Israeli side? Postol credits Israel’s early warning system, which gives Israelis 10 seconds or so of time to seek shelter before a rocket blast. The actual warning time can be longer.


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Red Alert app offers a Yo! update on missile attacks | The Times of Israel

App alerts Israelis of incoming rocket fire - CNN.com

Red Alert receives notifications when rockets are being launched from Gaza, and automatically sends out a push notification to users via the downloaded app. Their phone will play an emergency tone and display the name of the targeted community. The free app is available on iOS and Android devices.

Syracuse University News » » iSchool Senior Develops App to Alert Israelis of Rocket Strikes

 Last year, Benjamin Honig, a senior at the School of Information Studies (iSchool), won a scholarship award from Apple that provided him with admission to the company’s yearly Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco. While attending the WWDC in June, Honig met Arik Sosman, a student studying in Germany who was also an Apple Scholarship winner. The two became friends and stayed in touch through Facebook.


Although a mobile app called Red Alert, was already available to warn Israelis of rocket attacks, it did not allow users to customize their current location, or use GPS location data for alerts. iRon Dome actively tracks a user’s location in Israel and provides nuanced alerts based on real-time location and rocket information.


“Our application is about 30 seconds faster than Red Alert,” notes Honig, “and it tracks your GPS location at all times when the app is open—if a rocket has been predicted to land within your area, a ‘take cover’ alert is generated.”


The iRon Dome application also provides a map of rocket attacks, something the Red Alert app does not currently offer.


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Information Warfare: Iron Dome And The Truth
September 3, 2014: The ferocity with which some Western (and nearly all Arab) military analysts attack Israeli efforts to defend themselves is remarkable, and often spectacularly wrong. Even Israeli systems that are purely defensive are subject to ferocious, and usually false, criticism. One of the worst recent examples were the critics who claimed that it was technically impossible for the Israeli Iron Dome anti-rocket system to shoot down Palestinian rockets aimed at populated areas.