There are always going to be disasters, and with the changing weather patterns, these are occurring frequently. During these disasters people and their pets are often found to be in need of assistance. With EvacUPet, we can help.

The primary goal of the company is to build a national system that coordinates with animal interest groups, law and fire agencies, and other local authorities and groups to assure a reliable way to keep as many animals and humans from harm as possible. We plan to develop software for both web and mobile users that facilitates the evacuation of animals from risk areas during natural and manmade disasters. We believe a product can be created that saves the lives of animals and engages people of the community in a meaningful way. This can be accomplished by focusing on creating a quality product, and providing it free for users supplemented by advertisements and sponsorships.

The Evac-U-Pet product will be a web and mobile based logistics application, engaging the following actors:

Owners: The customer and animal owner. The Owner will use the application to register and maintain animal data, and check on status during an emergency.

Volunteers: The volunteer will use the application to register, set preferences (miles radius from their location from which they would be willing to rescue animals,) and use the mapping function of the app to be guided to the animal, and then to an evacuation center.

Evacuation Centers: The evacuation center would use the application to register availability, to receive alerts to incoming animals, and to track those that arrived.

Police/Fire: A special “all view” mode that allows for agencies to see routing of volunteers to locations, and the limited ability to enter road closures into the system and re-route drivers to other urgent locations.

Upon determination that an emergency exists, a party, either in-house command center personnel or outside agencies, would plot the boundaries of the emergency. The system would determine the complete list of all animals local to the area as well as volunteers local to the area, and alert them that evacuations were in place. Upon the owner posting their animal for evacuation and the volunteer accepting a pickup, the volunteer would be routed to the animal, and given data on arrival: directions, gate codes, other relevant information, to make the pickup. Once the animal is picked up, the system would route the volunteer to the evacuation center, alerting the evacuation center, and the owner, once enroute. Once the animals are delivered to the evacuation center, their location will be updated, and the driver could terminate his activities or accept another pickup.

Data would be kept on all driver movements, with or without animals. Data on owner's home access would only be given upon arrival at the location.

Coordinating the primary actors is a linear set of events:

1. A command center triggers the event by outlining the affected area and setting the event to active.

2. Owners are alerted to evacuations and may post their animals for evacuation.

3. Volunteers are summoned to specific locations, managed by a constantly updated tracking algorithm.

4. Animal pickups are tracked, owners and evacuation centers are alerted. Animals are delivered to the evacuation center and logged. Owner is updated of animal location as location of animal changes.

5. Volunteers are dispatched to next rescue.

6. Command center continually modifies affected area, until the event is deemed to be over.

Our target market is primarily horse and dog owners who house their animals on private property or at boarding facilities. Secondarily, our market is to animal facility managers and owners. Our vision is to build software that serves animal owners worldwide, across a broad range of species and services.