Advanced systems can tie into legacy paging systems and security features, such as door locks, to help leverage existing technology and offer additional opportunities to increase security at schools.
Over the summer, schools in Tampa Bay reassessed their speaker and zone controller needs and installed Wahsega Labs’ Two-Classroom 2x2 Ceiling Speaker. These cost-effective speakers integrate with InformaCast to provide a secure learning environment.
Attendees will hear from leading safety and security experts, develop strategies and tactics to reduce risk and improve response and learn first-hand about best practices and procedures for emergency response.
This article in EdTech magazine discusses how using InformaCast's 911 call alerting and mobile notifications together can provide a powerful safety boost to your school.
In the demonstration, Cisco illustrates how connected systems make it easy for front desk personnel to assess situations and ask for assistance if they feel there is an issue.
InformaCast helps you address the challenges of running a school with minimal disruption, making for easier days, safer students, and increased peace-of-mind.
"We'd like to think it won't happen, but there has certainly been enough of those events that have happened in our country so we can't ignore that," Finnemore said. "We have to do what we can to be prepared."
InformaCast provided us with a unified system with ease of management that allows us to even communicate with the baseball field and the weightlifting room wirelessly.
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— Elena Alvarez, Technology Director, Christopher Columbus High School —
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The fact that we can use [InformaCast] for both audio alerting and visual alerting, that was great.
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— Dan Carrion, Senior Voice Engineer, JOY Global —
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InformaCast has a great deal to do with patient safety. It allows us to take better care of our dementia and Alzheimer’s patients.
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— Mike Llewellyn, Chief Operating Officer, Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center —
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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 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 —
