What We Offer
Hormann America is a value-added system integrator. We bring together components from multiple vendors, including those we develop ourselves, and blend them to create customized solutions for our customers. The more complex your needs, the more warning devices and systems you need to connect, the more you need Hormann America.

We expect to establish long-term relationships with our customers, improving their warning systems and responding to new threats and requirements. We also provide support, maintenance, and repair for everything we sell.

Hardware + Software
Many people think of us as being either a warning hardware or software company, but we're actually both. Our employees are divided slightly in favor of software, but that's because we do a large amount of custom development for our customers.

Warning Systems for Government, Education, and Private Industry

Hormann America's customers include a wide range of organizations, including: State, County, and City Government, Public Education, Military, Broadcasters, Refineries, and other organizations. Let us introduce you to just a few of them:

State of California

Operated by the Governor's Office of Emergency Services, the Emergency Digital Information Service (EDIS) is the nation's first statewide warning system to use the Common Alerting Protocol. Through EDIS, California state, federal, and local agencies can post messages that are delivered to subscribers over email, pagers, SMS, desktop pop-ups, and other means. The State's Emergency Alert System of broadcasters and cable systems can be activated using EDIS, which can provide both recorded and text-to-speech content for broadcast. EDIS also has a two-way link to the National Weather Service and NOAA Weather Radio. Public subscription to EDIS is available free at edis-by-email.net. (You can see a scrolling RSS EDIS feed on our home page).

Contra Costa County Community Warning System
This award-winning system was created to provide warnings to residents living near oil refineries along San Francisco Bay in Contra Costa County. While that is still its primary purpose, the system has been expanded to provide all-hazards warning. Operated by the Contra Costa Sheriff's Office, the system includes more than 40 outdoor warning sirens and can send warnings via email, pager, SMS, "reverse 911" telephone notification, the Emergency Alert System, and other means. A map-based interface allows precise warnings of affected areas.

Israeli Military

In order to train its soldiers in a realistic environment, the State of Israel has created a mock village covering roughly four square miles of a remote desert area. There, soldiers participate in "live fire" excercises--real firearms, real ammunition--and a Hormann America system is used to control the exercises.

Hormann's high-power speaker stations allow commanders to give verbal orders to troops that can be heard above the noise of the exercise. Each speaker station is fitted with a television camera, giving commanders the ability to see how an exercise unfolds. Access to the speaker system is over the base telephone system, offering extreme ease-of-use.

The facility is divided into six adjoining zones, which can be used simultaneously by different warrior groups. Because each needs to be controlled individually, Hormann designed a system with minimum sound overlap between zones, which can be addresses individually, in groups, or all at once.

Refineries

Hormann provides, monitors, and maintains warning public address at three large refinery complexes such as Shell, ConocoPhillips and Chevron. These systems are engineered to provide extreme easy of activation, yet provide enough information to trigger an off-site warning if one is required. Together, these systems employ more than 40 speaker stations, placed to provide optimum coverage in high-noise areas of the facilities. They can be activated by guards and other workers using touchscreen displays.

Anguilla National Warning System

The island nation of Anguilla,  in the Eastern Caribbean, selected Hormann America to design, develop software for, and supervise installation of a new warning system that makes use of broadcast radio, data-over-radio, and desktop pop-ups. The system, used for internal, interest group (tourism, etc.), and public notification, uses a single message created using our AlertNET technology to drive all these warning devices.

San Mateo County

Hormann America provides several warning tools, including a new tsunami warning system, to this California county. Tsunami warnings are sounded by a system of nine warning sirens. We also manage the county's Telephone Emergency Notification System ("reverse 911") and other warning systems.

These are just a few of our recent and ongoing projects. We are happy to provide detailed references upon request.