Singlewire Software, a leading mass notification technology developer, releases InformaCast Desktop Notifier 4.0, which provides InformaCast Advanced users with four different options for to display emergency notifications on desktop computers.
A recent article from asmag.com noted that there are currently 6.4 billion connected things in use worldwide. The outlet spoke with Pat Scheckel, VP of Business Development at Singlewire to discuss the impact this increasing connectivity has on emergency notifications.
InformaCast played a key role in notifying our campus about the water main break and the need to use bottled water. I was able to quickly record a message and send it to the campus from my office at home. Our students commented how effective this was in letting them know what was going on.
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— John Turner, Director of Networks and Systems, Brandeis University —
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Bells and paging are one of the most important things for schools... in my opinion, it’s still the most critical, and so choosing the right system and the right partner is very important. The Singlewire system has fit the bill for us.
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— David Massaro, Coordinator of Technology Services at Redlands Unified School District —
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… InformaCast is really the glue for our notification - it can pull in email, our phone system, our speaker system, our visible security system, locks, and make it all work together.
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— Shandor Simon, Director of Information Technology, Latin School of Chicago —
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…It provides a consistent means of communicating and informing regarding an incident to, not just our first responders in those multiple agencies, but also to our staff and parents who are in multiple buildings, and our students in multiple buildings.
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— Tom Wohlleber, Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, MCPASD —
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It worked very successfully. We were able to do a complete lockdown on our whole campus within about five minutes of initiating the alert to people.
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— Rob Crockett, Network Administrator, Ouachita Baptist University —
