Case Study: Dewees Island achieves reliable, real-time emergency communications with Omnilert

Exceeding expectations, goals, and compliance requirements through critical communications

Dewees Island, a private 1,200+ acre oceanfront nature preserve and community near Charleston, SC, needed a reliable way to keep 28 staff and the island’s hundreds of residents and visitors informed and safe amid unique risks—ferry-dependent access, severe weather, medical emergencies, and dangerous wildlife. To meet that challenge they chose Omnilert’s emergency notification and critical communications solution to deliver timely, targeted alerts across multiple channels.

Omnilert implemented its mass notification platform—using Scenarios® to automate their Emergency Response Plan and Triggers™ to tie alerts to sensors and weather systems—allowing staff to instantly notify specific groups via text, email, social posts, RSS, desktop, mobile and Apple Watch. The result: Dewees Island brought its emergency plans to life, exceeded constituent expectations for reliable communications, ensured compliance, improved operational efficiency, and can now reach the right people at the right time for life‑safety incidents and operational outages.

Dewees Island

David Dew

General Manager