ID Four Announces California State Senator Dede Alpert's Support For Pre-Emptive Rolling Blackout Alert Technology
SAN DIEGO, May 30 /PRNewswire/ -- ID Four Ltd.,
(OTC: IDFR), today announced the results of the second
meeting with the staff of California State Senators office Dede Alpert.
Re: Intelligent Digital Pre-emptive "Rolling Blackout" Alert Technology.
The Board of Directors of ID Four, today announced they attended a second
meeting with California State Senator Dede Alpert on Friday May 25th 2001 in
San Diego, California. The meeting was to further discuss with Senator Alpert
personally the high-tech immediate solution available to the Utility Companies
for the Pre-emptive "Rolling Blackout" Alerts throughout California.
Senator Dede Alpert [D] Coronado, is an acknowledged leader amongst
California legislators who are seeking solutions to the state's current energy
problems. Senator Alpert has been at the forefront of calls for a fair deal
for California consumers beset by the prospect of up to 35 days of outages
this coming summer. Following Friday's powerful discussions of ID Four's
ability to instantly notify consumers of impending outages using IDC
pre-emptive technology. Senator Alpert voiced her support of continued
efforts to have utility companies adopt the company's IDC solution.
The meeting with Senator Alpert quickly ascertained how in a matter of
minutes an audio and visual alert could be sent to specific computer users in
the designated zip codes within minutes of a notification by CalISO
(California Independent Systems Operator) to the local Utility company of an
impending power reduction. The Utility Company would then use the IDC
Technology to notify all on-line computer users in the designated area of the
impending Blackout. This method of almost immediate notification can be sent
by a single programmer to the entire area to be affected in a matter of
minutes. This allows both the general public, Businesses and Public Safety
officials alike to act pro-actively to take the necessary measures for
everyone's safety during the power interruption.
Senator Alpert expressed her support of the IDC Technology and encouraged
ID Four to quickly contact Utility Companies to demonstrate the High Tech
Intelligent Digital Messaging Technology as a "Rolling Blackout" Pre-emptive
alert system.
The Senators office confirmed California Utility Companies would be able
to contact her office directly for additional information.
During the meeting, ID Four re-iterated how the advance warnings would
include the ability for Building and Property management companies to prevent
people from being trapped in elevators, Garages and Parking structures. How
food related Businesses and Restaurant's could take steps to save food and
health products safely. Consumers would be able to open their garage doors
and "Pull the Plug" prior to the power interruption. Senator Alpert commented
on how this kind of pre-emptive alert could save valuable time in the research
sector of the Bio-Tech industry, where advance notice of impending Power
Interruptions, would help determine the scheduling for crucial Lab
experiments.
Value computer data could be saved as a result of advance warning to save
files accounting and documents. Public safety officials [Caltrans and Police
Departments] could dispatch additional staff to the Blackout areas before they
occur.
ID Four is also currently meeting with several of California's leading
Utility Company's, to demonstrate the effectiveness of this Technology and
assist in the completion of providing the solution to the "Advance Warning
Rolling Blackout-Alerts" within the time frame mandated by California Governor
Gray Davis in his press release dated May 24th 2001.
Board of Directors, ID Four Ltd.
For more information please contact: ID Four Ltd., Public Relations
Department, 7825 Fay Avenue, La Jolla, CA 92037 Tel: 858/456-3524
Email: Info@idfour.com.
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Senator Dede Alpert
Senator Dede Alpert (D-San Diego) was re-elected to represent the 39th
Senate District in 2000 after having served three terms as an assemblywoman
and one term as a senator. She is widely recognized as one of the
Legislature's foremost advocates of public education. Her legislative agenda
has also consistently stressed ensuring a prosperous economy for California,
as well as advocating health and safety issues for women and children.
Senator Alpert currently chairs the powerful Senate Appropriations
Committee; the Joint Committee on the Master Plan for Education --
Kindergarten through University; the Select Committee on Family, Child and
Youth Development; and the Select Committee on Genetics and Public Policy.
Her standing committee assignments include the committees on Education,
Natural Resources and Wildlife, Agriculture and Water Resources, and Revenue
and Taxation. Alpert is also an appointee to the Appropriations Subcommittee
on Fiscal Oversight; the select committees on the CalFed Water Program;
California's Wine Industry; College and University Admissions and Outreach;
Economic Development; Government Oversight; and Urban Economic Development.
In addition, she is vice-chair of the Joint Committee on Fisheries and
Aquaculture, and a member of the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
and the six-state Pacific Fisheries Legislative Task Force.
Alpert has received numerous awards and citations for her efforts, among
them having been named the "High Tech Legislator of the Year" by the American
Electronics Association seven of the nine years she has been in office. In
recognition of her contributions to the visitor industry, Alpert was honored
with induction into the California Tourism Hall of Fame in 1997.
Additionally, she was recognized as "Legislator of the Year" by the California
State University system and "Senator of the Year" by the California School
Boards Association in 1998.
Senator Alpert is also the author of numerous pieces of landmark
legislation, including some that established new standards nationwide. For
instance, Alpert authored the Mammography Quality Assurance Act of 1992, which
gave California the most stringent mammography standards in the country. She
also was responsible for the Workplace Violence Safety Act of 1994, allowing
employers to obtain restraining orders against people who threaten individual
employees or their places of work and which now has been used as model
legislation in many other states. Senator Alpert authored Assembly Bill 1114
of 1993, which allows parents to choose the public school their children will
attend; the California Assessment of Academic Achievement Act in 1995, which
established a state-wide standardized test through which students, schools,
and school districts around the state could be compared; and the "Public
Schools Accountability Act of 1999," which created criteria by which
California schools are evaluated according to student performance on
standardized tests, and high-performing or improving schools are rewarded and
under-performing schools are provided assistance. Alpert was a principal
author of the "ABC" education reform package of 1995, which requires the
integration of phonics, basic spelling, and fundamental computational skills
into school curriculum as well as the Battered Women's Protection Act of 1994,
which provided $30 million to women's shelters in 1994-96 and became the
foundation for greatly enhanced funding of domestic violence services in
California.
The 39th Senate District encompasses the cities of Imperial Beach and
Coronado in their entirety, and also takes in the majority of the City of San
Diego, including the communities of La Jolla, Hillcrest, Mission Valley,
Pacific Beach, Old Town, Normal Heights, Bay Park, Linda Vista, Clairemont,
Allied Gardens, Grantville, Sorrento Valley, University City, Rolando/Redwood,
Oak Park, San Carlos, Kensington/Talmadge, Serra Mesa, Mira Mesa, Tierrasanta,
Rancho Penasquitos and the College area.
Prior to her election to the California State Legislature, Alpert
served on the Solana Beach School Board for seven years. She was also a
court-appointed special advocate for Voices for Children and was active with
United Cerebral Palsy, PTA, and the Girl Scouts. She is married to Michael
Alpert, a retired attorney, and they are the parents of three daughters, Lehn,
Kristin, and Alison, and are also proud grandparents.
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