Situational Awareness Board
Free & open source · AGPL-3.0

Situational awareness for agencies priced out of the alternatives.

A free, self-hosted alerting and situational awareness platform for small and rural emergency management agencies. Post updates, alert staff by email and SMS, and give your agency a shared live view of what's happening, built to replace tools like Everbridge, CodeRED, and WebEOC where the budget for them was never there.

Live board (example)
Urgent Incident 2026-07-25 14:32 CDT

Water Main Break: Main St & 4th

Public Works responding. Expect pressure loss in the area through this evening.

Advisory Weather / Road 2026-07-25 06:10 CDT

Winter Storm Watch

2–4 inches expected overnight. Plan for slick roads during the morning commute.

Info Training 2026-07-24 09:00 CDT

Monthly EOC Drill: Thursday 0900

All department liaisons expected. Sign-in at the front desk.

Built for the budget you actually have

Commercial mass-notification platforms are priced for large jurisdictions with dedicated budgets, not a two-person emergency management office.

Commercial platforms
$$$$ / year
Annual licensing, per-seat costs, vendor lock-in, and features built for jurisdictions far larger than yours.
This
$0 / year
Free, forever. Self-hosted on hardware you already control. No subscription, no per-agency fee, no vendor to negotiate with.

What's included

Everything below ships in the same free release, nothing is a paid tier.

Emergency Alert button

One field, one click. Immediately posts an Urgent update, emails your distribution list, and texts your SMS alert list, all at once.

Email & SMS notifications

Automatic alerts on urgent posts via any SMTP provider and Twilio, with a separate opt-in list for routine updates.

Kiosk display mode

A large-font, no-login view built for a wall-mounted TV, auto-refreshing, with live weather and radar built in.

Two-tier access

Full staff accounts for posting and admin, plus an optional shared read-only password for partner agencies or the public.

Live weather & radar

NOAA forecast, NEXRAD radar loop, and space weather conditions, configured for your exact location.

Records-compliant deletion

Nothing is ever silently destroyed. A "deleted" update is recoverable, not gone, and a permanent, admin-only audit log tracks every delete, restore, and purge.

Security-hardened

CSRF protection, rate limiting, security headers, hardened sessions, audited for public-internet exposure, not just internal use.

Get started

01

Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/CityofMonmouth/sitaware.git

02

Create your configuration

Copy .env.example to .env and set a real SECRET_KEY, the app won't start without one.

03

Build and run

docker compose up -d --build, live in a couple of minutes.