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An active shooter alert system that helps keep your people protected.
It’s the one event no organization wants to experience, but the one every organization needs to prepare for. Active shooters can cause untold harm to your people and burdensome disruptions to your operations. InformaCast, our active shooter alert system, helps you address the challenges active shooter situations pose head-on with powerful emergency notification and incident management capabilities.
Reduce response time and manage your active shooter protocol efficiently.
Emergency Notification
Responding to an active shooter situation requires an immediate response. InformaCast offers unrivaled emergency notification capabilities to help you notify as many people as quickly as possible. Send intrusive text and audio messages to on-site and mobile devices to help ensure no one misses a message that impacts their safety. Monitor for 911 calls dialed within the building to know the moment an incident has occurred. Designate specific messages for particular groups such as security and administrators. InformaCast gives you the flexibility to use every channel available to spread the word and inform people of what actions to take to keep them safe.
Lockdown and Evacuation
During an active shooter situation organizations often lockdown their facility and ask people to shelter-in-place until the incident has been resolved. Once that happens it may be necessary to evacuate buildings. InformaCast can help organizations send messages and manage both of these tasks. Notifications from InformaCast can be sent throughout a building, alerting people to lock doors. In some circumstances, organizations can even connect InformaCast to their door access control systems to lock doors automatically. Intrusive notifications can also help manage a quick and orderly evacuation so people exit buildings safely.
Incident Management
InformaCast provides robust tools to manage an active shooter situation from start to finish. Organizations can build messages for each component of their response, access resources like floor plans and security camera feeds, bring together key stakeholders in virtual collaboration spaces, account for individuals, and view reports afterward to understand how effective their response was. This can all be done from a desktop computer or the InformaCast app so those in charge have access on the go while delivering assistance.
Rostering and Reunification
At the onset of an emergency, use InformaCast to account for each student’s location and if they are safe. When the threat has passed, our incident management tools help you carry out an organized reunification process, while documenting every step of the process so you have records to refer to and review afterward.
Emergency Calling
Schools and districts looking to meet the requirements of Alyssa’s Law can add emergency calling to the Personal Duress Package. With emergency calling enabled, when a notification is initiated, simultaneous messages are sent to your response teams and a public safety answering point (PSAP) which can dispatch first responders to help your school or district.
Gunshot Detection
New technologies are giving organizations an edge in protecting their people against active shooter threats. InformaCast can integrate with leading gunshot detection solutions to initiate notifications when a gun is fired in or near your facilities.
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Whether it’s as severe as an active shooter or as mundane as an IT outage, InformaCast provides the robust emergency notification and incident management features your organization needs to handle any crisis. Discover today how we help you save money and enhance safety with an all-in-one solution.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. An active shooter alert system lets someone share an emergency alert with everyone in a building right away, and gives leaders the tools to manage what follows. In InformaCast, that means one press sends text, audio, and visual messages to the devices people already have, so no one misses the information that affects their safety.
InformaCast offers several methods for activating alerts, so easy access to the closest option is always within reach. Staff can press a soft key on a desk phone, use a keyboard shortcut on a computer, press a button in the InformaCast mobile app, press a wearable badge, or use a mounted button. Each one sends a preconfigured message without anyone needing to log in first. InformaCast can also integrate with gunshot detection devices and AI video surveillance to initiate alerts automatically.
Yes. InformaCast sends lockdown instructions throughout a building using speakers, phones, computers, and mobile devices at the same time. Where organizations connect InformaCast to a door access control system, doors can lock automatically as part of the same alert. The same tools support an orderly evacuation when it is time to move people out.
Yes. You can send broad instructions to everyone in a building while simultaneously sending separate details to security, administrators, or a response team. Messages can also be limited to one building or one part of a campus, so people who are not affected are not pulled away from what they are doing.
No. The InformaCast mobile app can be used throughout an organization or by a select team to manage and launch notifications. Employees without the app can still receive SMS text messages and emails.
Yes. InformaCast connects with leading gunshot detection solutions so that a detected gunshot in or near your facility can start notifications automatically. That means the alert goes out even if no person is in a position to press a button, and it reaches every device connected to InformaCast.
Yes. Schools and organizations run practice drills using the same messages, groups, and workflows they would use during a real emergency. Reports afterward show what was sent and who responded, so you can review how the drill went and adjust your plan before you ever need it.
Yes. InformaCast helps you confirm where people are and whether they are safe as an incident unfolds. When the situation has passed, our tools support an organized reunification process and record each step, giving you documentation to review later and share with the people who need it.
Yes. The first message is one step of a longer response. InformaCast lets you send follow-up messages, pull up floor plans and camera feeds, bring key people together in a shared space, and review reports afterward. Leaders can do all of it from a computer or from the InformaCast app while they are moving.
Yes. Alyssa’s Law calls for silent panic buttons that notify people inside a school and reach a 911 call center, and InformaCast supports both when emergency calling is added. Requirements differ by state and some states are still finalizing their specifications, so review your state’s rules as you plan.