Brandeis University Uses InformaCast for Emergency Notifications

Located just outside of Boston in Waltham, Mass., Brandeis serves 4,000 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students. The 250-acre campus includes 100 buildings with 1,000 faculty.

Business Challenge:

Due to the geographic location of its campus, Brandeis University had difficulty relying on cellular communications to reach students. In addition, the university needed a simple way for its security team to reach everyone on campus with a mass notification if an emergency occurred.

Solution:

The university implemented InformaCast mass emergency notification system to reach everyone through on-campus phones. Through phone speakers and other devices, Brandeis University can easily send mass notification broadcasts that reach everyone with critical information.

The fact that we can use [InformaCast] for both audio alerting and visual alerting, that was great.

— Dan Carrion, Senior Voice Engineer, JOY Global —

…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.

— Tom Wohlleber, Assistant Superintendent of Business Services, MCPASD —

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.

— Rob Crockett, Network Administrator, Ouachita Baptist University —

I like using it, because it’s a simple product to use. You can see behind it that it is a quality product; professionally-built and well-designed.

— Terry Oakley, Telecommunications Coordinator, Red Deer College —

… 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.

— Shandor Simon, Director of Information Technology, Latin School of Chicago —