School Solutions
With recent tragic national events, school administrators
are rushing to modernize their communication systems as a precaution to any
threat the school might face. They have realized that the foundation to any
effective action plan is laid with fast, solid, reliable communication systems.
Out-flowing information, both local to the campus and further to the community,
is the key. This typically comes in the form of classroom announcement by a
speakerphone for emergency lockdowns, and to the community through a mass
communication portal.
While little has changed with in-classroom paging
technology, community notification has become much more streamlined in the
delivery of emergency messages. The common effective trend today is to use an
online message factory where an end-user is able to log onto a web portal and
create a campaign, which consists of uploading a recipient database, recording
the page/email and voice message, and entering the desired timeline. Once the
campaign has been initiated, the recipient is notified within approximately 5
minutes (depending on the number of recipients) because the online message
factory is able to dispatch several hundred voice messages at once, and an
unlimited number of page/email messages. Unlike local, district owned
announcement systems, online message factories have enterprise-level redundancy
architecture because thousands of local and regional public agencies rely on
promised uptime. This can quite literally mean the difference when averting a
tragedy.