Recording from Tuesday, November 18, 2025 & Replayed December 11, 2025
What This Wearable Panic Button Webinar Covered
Staff can only respond to what they know about — and they can only call for help if they have a reliable way to do it from wherever they are. This webinar introduced the InformaCast Wearable Alert Badge, Singlewire Software’s wearable panic button for school staff, and walked through how it works, what sets it apart, and why the platform behind it matters as much as the device itself.
The session opened with Singlewire Software CEO Terry Swanson explaining the foundation of the product: schools have consistently said that every second matters when an incident begins. The badge extends Singlewire InformaCast’s existing capabilities into a physical, personal device. Staff wear it daily, and when they need help, they press a button. What happens next — who gets notified, what information they receive, and how the response is coordinated — is driven entirely by InformaCast.
Technical Product Manager Megan Cutting walked through the full hardware ecosystem: the badge itself, BLE beacons placed throughout the building, supervisor devices that monitor beacon health, and a gateway that bridges everything to InformaCast via LoRaWAN. Two alert tiers keep the response proportionate: three button presses for a localized staff assist situation, six or more for a campus-wide emergency. Once activated, the badge updates its location every 15 seconds, giving the safety team a live, moving position on a floor plan — and a visual confirmation back to the staff member that their alert has been received.
The webinar closed with a message from Lori Alhadeff, co-founder of Make Our Schools Safe, a Singlewire mission partner. Alhadeff, whose advocacy is the driving force behind Alyssa’s Law — now passed in 10 states with a federal bill in progress — spoke to why reliable, fast alert technology is a foundational layer of school safety and why every school should have it in place regardless of where state legislation currently stands.
Presenters
Chris Swietlik (Host) • Director of Communications • Singlewire Software
Terry Swanson • CEO • Singlewire Software
Megan Cutting • Technical Product Manager • Singlewire Software
Ryan Mauer • Regional Manager • Singlewire Software
Lori Alhadeff • Vice Chairman; President & Co-Founder • Make Our Schools Safe
Five Key Takeaways on Wearable Panic Buttons for Schools
- The device is only as strong as the platform behind it — The InformaCast Wearable Alert Badge is not a standalone panic button. It is an extension of InformaCast — which means activating the badge also activates scenarios, notifications, incident management, and 911 alerting. Schools that already use InformaCast gain a wearable layer without adding a separate system to manage.
- Two alert tiers let the response match the situation — Three button presses send a staff assist alert for localized, day-to-day incidents — a health concern, a student altercation, a situation where a staff member needs help without leaving the room. Six or more presses escalate to a campus-wide emergency response. Treating every incident the same wastes resources and erodes confidence; having two clear tiers keeps the response proportionate.
- Location awareness is what makes an alert actionable — When a badge is activated, the safety team sees not just who pressed the button, but where that person is on a live floor plan — updated every 15 seconds. If the staff member moves, the dot moves with them. The person pressing the button also receives a visible confirmation that their alert has been received and help is on the way, so no one is left wondering if the signal went through.
- Daily use is what makes emergency use dependable — A device staff wear every day is a device they know how to use under stress. The badge is part of the same InformaCast ecosystem used for daily announcements, bell schedules, and routine communications. That familiarity — built through ordinary moments — is what prevents hesitation when an incident begins.
- Multiple activation options mean no one is ever without a way to call for help — The badge is one of five ways to initiate an alert in InformaCast. Staff can also use the mobile app, desktop keyboard shortcuts, desk phones, or mounted panic buttons. Schools that deploy a mix of these options ensure that a staff member who isn’t wearing their badge — or whose badge battery is low — still has a reliable way to get help from wherever they are.
Resources Referenced in This Webinar
InformaCast Wearable Alert Badge
www.singlewire.com/informacast-alert
Wearable Alert Badge Demo (video)
www.singlewire.com/resources/wearable-alert-badge-demo
Make Our Schools Safe
Singlewire Safety Grant Funding Guide
www.singlewire.com/safety-grants
See the InformaCast Wearable Alert Badge in action
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Read the Full Webinar Transcript
This transcript was generated from the recording and lightly edited for readability. Speaker attributions are approximate.
Chris Swietlik — Host · Singlewire Software
By Singlewire Software. I’m Chris Swietlik, director of communications at Singlewire Software. And today, we’ll be providing an overview of the InformaCast wearable alert badge. This is a wearable panic button that can activate an alert from anywhere in a school.
It’s gonna give staff the power to initiate alerts, pinpoint their location, and connect with other faculty or law enforcement and first responders if needed in seconds.
I wanna take care of a few housekeeping items before we get on your way. First of all, if you have questions during the course of this webinar, please put them into the q and a. We have team members standing by who will be able to answer any questions you might have related to the InformaCast wearable alert badge.
Also, this session is being recorded, and a link to access the recording will be sent out shortly after the event has concluded should you wanna share it with other colleagues or go back and revisit anything we discussed today.
We’re very happy to have everyone here with us. To kick things off, we’re going to have Terry Swanson, CEO of Singlewire Software, tell us why Singlewire has embarked on the journey to create safer and learning environments through the use of wearable devices.
Terry Swanson — CEO · Singlewire Software
Thanks, Chris, and thank you all for joining us. Today, you’re going to hear from two team members who have been heavily involved in the development of our wearable panic button, the InformaCast Wearable Alert Badge. You’re going to learn all about how this device works and how you can use it to enhance safety in your buildings. But before we get started, I thought I’d take just a minute or two and explain to you why we developed it.
As many of you know, for more than fifteen years now, Singlewire has been helping schools share critical information quickly and manage incidents effectively with our InformaCast software.
One thing that we’ve consistently heard over time is that when critical issues come up and when people need to be informed, every second matters. The faster they can understand what’s happening and who needs help and even where to send assistance, the quicker they can respond to help keep students and teachers safe.
We saw an opportunity to extend the capabilities of InformaCast above and beyond software with an easy to use physical device that school staff can have with them at all times.
Customers have been asking us, when are you going to provide a wearable panic button as an offering? And I can tell you, we are really excited to be entering this market and to be sharing more with you today.
This offers school staff personalized protection at their fingertips. There’s one unique thing that I want to highlight that I think will differentiate this solution from others that are on the market.
At Singlewire, we’re going to continue to provide InformaCast users with choice. We can now provide you with multiple ways to initiate critical alerts. In addition to the wearable badge, you can still continue to use desk phones, mounted panic buttons, desktops, or even our mobile application as additional options to alert your people of what’s going on.
The badge itself can be activated with just a few button presses, relaying information about whose badge was activated, as well as where in the building the badge was pressed. And because this information gets distributed via InformaCast, school leaders and even local dispatchers will know the instant an issue arises so that they can respond as quickly as possible.
That’s a key part of what we want you to understand today, that a badge on its own doesn’t do anything unless something is powering it. With our InformaCast software backing these badges up, schools are getting more than just a device. They’re getting all the tools they need to know when someone needs help, to reach and inform the right people, and to respond faster.
We understand that every second matters during a school crisis, and we’re excited for you to learn more about this solution.
We will continue in our commitment to deliver solutions that schools need to create safer learning environments. Thanks again for joining us today. Chris, I’m going to turn it back to you. Thanks.
Chris Swietlik
Thanks, Terry. I think that’s really a good way to highlight why having a wearable panic button is so important and the need for schools to be able to reach everyone and quickly get help when it’s needed most.
I’m now gonna bring on our panelists for today’s discussion. I’m gonna let them introduce themselves. We’re gonna start with Megan Cutting.
Megan Cutting — Technical Product Manager · Singlewire Software
Hi there. My name is Megan Cutting. I’m a technical product manager here at Singlewire Software. I work on our InformaCast product, specifically in the wearables functionality and also our incident management functionality.
Chris Swietlik
Thanks, Megan. We also have Ryan Mauer.
Ryan Mauer — Regional Manager · Singlewire Software
Hey, everyone. Thanks for joining. My name is Ryan Mauer. I’m a regional manager here at Singlewire, so I lead and support a team, of our sales account managers, and our channel partner resellers, selling and supporting into k twelve environments.
Chris Swietlik
Great. Thank you both for joining us today. Later in the webinar, we’ll also hear from Lori Alhadeff. She’s the vice chairman of the board and president and cofounder of Make Our Schools Safe.
Before we get into our full discussion today, I think it’s important that we set the stage a little bit. So Ryan and Megan, can you talk a little bit about what we’ve heard from schools about how the landscape of safety threats has evolved and why the ability to alert instantly has become so critical.
Ryan Mauer
Yeah, absolutely. You know, I think first and foremost, many of us are parents. My family, my wife and I have three students in schools every single day. So one of the things we like to note or that we recognize is that school safety and violence is the number one concern of parents across the country.
That’s noted as number one. And so when we consider where the world’s at, what the market’s heading towards, there’s a couple of things that kind of are continuing to service themselves. The first thing is that folks are looking to ensure they have personalized notifications so that they can actually receive by their role and responsibility in a district or at a school, you know, by location, and then with specific instructions, that’s a key thing. And then I think the the second thing we’re seeing is kind of like a market trending and and in many ways this year is that there’s a need to integrate current systems onto a singular platform, whether that’s daily communications or in situations where there’s an emergency response, the ability to have a cohesive solution in that regard.
And then there’s this dynamic response related to that assurance that the contact at the end, whomever that is in the district, is understanding and receiving rich information. So mapping and understanding what’s happening on the ground is certainly a trend that we’re seeing, and that we’re looking to respond to.
Megan Cutting
So we’ve heard schools that they want to be able to plan for both major events that are becoming more and more frequent, but also daily safety challenges.
At a high level, incident alerts are gonna help us reduce the time between when an event or incident starts and when help arrives.
Seconds matter whether this is a small scale incident or a large emergency.
We’ve heard also about the importance of really empowering staff to be able to activate an alert or initiate one. So whether that’s a wearable panic button or another way to get the alert out, we really need to ensure that teachers and staff at schools have the ability to send out an alert. Yep. We also hear a lot from schools about Alyssa’s Law as more and more states have this law come into effect. Schools are increasingly interested in being able to comply and have those silent panic alarms that are able to link directly to law enforcement to get help on the scene faster.
And as Ryan mentioned, we we also hear a lot of customers talking about wanting a solution that is is fully embedded, is is fully functional within itself. So a safety toolkit that has full functionality. So rather than integrating multiple systems, having different devices such as wearables included as a seamless extension of their current incident management and mass communication platforms to offer a streamlined, efficient experience as schools are dealing with safety scenarios.
Chris Swietlik
I think those are two great points to really highlight what the current situation is in schools.
One of the things that you mentioned, Megan, is obviously that need for an instant communication and the fact that seconds matter, whether that’s large scale emergency or a small scale or localized incident, every moment matters. And the quicker that that response can happen, the the better result you’re gonna have at the end.
But that can be a challenge for a lot of schools. It’s not always easy to accomplish that. And one of the things that I feel like we often hear from customers is communication. Right? Your communication is a huge component of how well you’re gonna be able to respond to an incident.
So can you talk a little bit about common communication gaps that we hear from schools that they experience during an incident? And how do we see this badge working with our InformaCast software helping to create a more robust ecosystem for safer schools.
Ryan Mauer
Yeah, it’s a great point, Chris, and I think both you and Megan touched on it. One of the most significant challenges that school administrators, school staff have is that they have separate systems depending on the use cases that are going on in any one environment. So that could be something as simple as overhead paging. There’s a system for that.
And there may be a separate voice system, whether that’s desk phones. And there’s a separate system in terms of an endpoint related to computer, laptop, desktop infrastructure. And so there’s these separate disparate points that are all living in the same environment. So the first goal is, hey, how can we consolidate those into a singular platform that can provide the power of that consolidated communication path?
And then I think the second thing that we hear routinely is, and it goes with what we just talked about with speed of response, is how fast can I leverage that environment? Because seconds do matter.
So tethering together those endpoints to really create an ecosystem is is extremely, important. So when we think about the ability to inject a wearable into that environment, there’s two things that are really, you know, occurring is one, we’re still getting the benefit out of a platform that we can use every single day, which is gonna be, you know, entirely, the significant, majority of the time. Right? So that daily use case is extremely important.
But then when that, you know, in the off chance something in an emergency environment happens, we know the system is functioning, well. We’ve exercised it on a daily basis. And so that speed of response and the confidence, both with the users and the staff and the schools is already there, and that we can create a very fast, within seconds response using, this wearable panic button. That’s really important for us.
Megan Cutting
Yeah. To to build on what Ryan said, one of the gaps that that we hear customers talk about is how do we make it easy for staff and teachers to easily and quickly alert, especially discreetly? So rather than having to go find a stationary panic button, find their mobile device, log in to the app, and and send off the alert, a wearable device allows them to find their ID badge, and on a lanyard, on a reel, and click a button a few times to send off that alert. So being able to really, from where they are located, be able to ask for help when they need it and not have to go anywhere else, leave their students unattended.
And hopefully, also for day to day incidents, especially, be able to remain where that incident is occurring for for smaller scale things so that they can help deescalate as well. It’s it’s really about offering that convenient, easy to use solution for teachers and staff to get help when they need it.
Chris Swietlik
So, Megan, I think you made some good points, especially in regards to teachers and staff within a school. Because when we’re talking about school safety, we’re really talking about student safety, And the responsibility for that falls on the shoulders of teachers and staff to make sure those students stay protected. So how do we see this solution empowering teachers and staff to feel safer themselves, but also more prepared should an emergency arise?
Megan Cutting
Sure. So first, our wearable panic buttons are devices that are personal for each user. So they’re going to have one that they’re wearing, however they would like. I’ve got one on a lanyard here. They can be attached to an ID badge reel However, the user wants to wear it, and those will also be assigned to that person in InformaCast. In the event of an emergency or or incident, the safety team will be able to see who is assigned to that badge and needs help in addition to where they are when they initiated the event. So really being able to see more information about that and know who they’re sending help to when the alert is risen.
So once this badge is activated, going to track that user’s position throughout the school, wherever they’re located, and it’s going to, stay updated on that location. So every fifteen seconds, it’s updating, providing that up to date information on where that user is located. The safety staff will be able to see a floor plan of the school and where that badge is located on that floor plan, seeing it move in real time. So if that user happens to need to move, during the incident after they’ve activated the badge, we’ll have up to date information on where they’re going throughout the school.
The badge offer also offers a way to help a user know that someone has seen their alert and is responding.
When a user successfully activates their badge, they will first see three LED lights flash on the badge indicating that the signal has successfully been sent out.
Once that signal gets transmitted over to InformaCast, the system will initiate a scenario, an incident, and any interrelated notifications for those two. Once those things successfully trigger, we’re gonna send the signal back to the badge, and it’s going to light up those LED lights. And instead of flashing, they’re just gonna be consistently on. So that’s the indication to the user that the alert has gone out and help is on the way.
One additional thing is, at a high level, a school’s commitment to safety is really shown through them having a solution like our wearable panic button. So, this this demonstrates that there is a safety plan in place and that the safety of staff and students is being prioritized.
Ryan Mauer
Yeah.
That’s a great point. Lots of great points there. Thank you. I also have a badge.
Just to make sure. But I think there’s a couple there’s, you know, this umbrella conversation we just chatted about it with the the confidence factor. You know, being able to wear a badge and kind of carry on a physical representation of a district’s safety, posture, also gives, you know, gives confidence in two ways. One is that teacher or the staff that are wearing it, because they can visually see, you know, that the initiation has occurred, right, and that we’re sending information back into the InformaCast platform.
Then the confidence is received on the other end where there’s this location that’s moving, there’s a string of information that’s being provided, to the folks that are responsible for responding to it. You have this confidence that’s both award and then shared inside of the InformaCast platform that we think is really important, when we’re solving safety concerns and safety protocol, for schools.
Chris Swietlik
Yeah, I think those are two excellent points. I mean, having that confidence, you know, be visible, right? There are schools all over the place that have safety plans, but being able to not only practice using them or going through drills, but having something that is a daily reminder that, yes, my safety is being prioritized. Yes, there’s a plan behind it.
Yes. I know that I’m gonna get the help that I need should an issue arise. Think that’s a really important idea to get across with these these badges.
And, Megan, you started talking a little bit about how this works, with the mapping capabilities that are gonna be a part of it and, you know, activating the badge. But I’m wondering if you could just walk us through, given how, intimately involved you’ve been with this project and bringing this product to fruition, can you just walk us through that start to finish, know, if I press my badge, what happens next, example, just so our audience can really get a good understanding of what they can expect when they’re using these badges.
Megan Cutting
Absolutely. So it’s important to start with some information on how the badge works. We have one single button on the badge. Oh, my background’s blurring it.
But with that single button, we have two alert tiers that are available. So we have a staff assist tier, that you can activate with three button presses. So, this is for a localized small scale incident. It could be a small health issue, a fight, something where, as we mentioned earlier, a teacher needs assistance, but they can’t necessarily leave their current location to ask for help.
This is a day to day event, lots of occurrences, and something where we need to offer a solution. So, that’s three button presses. Then we have an escalated situation for an emergency. This is six or more button presses for a campus wide threat or emergency lockdown.
This could be an active assailant or other large scale We recommend an emergency calling integration with this to directly reach the PSAP when an alert is triggered. These are uncommon scenarios, but they are ones that we want a school to be completely prepared for in case they occur.
So whether a user triggers a three button press or a six button press, the system will activate an alert very similarly. There are some configuration differences between the two, but largely similar functionality. So to initiate an event, that user will press the button three or six times.
Once that badge is activated, as I mentioned, those, LEDs start flashing. At this point, this, this device is doing a BLE scan. It’s looking for nearby BLE beacons in order to help position where this is in the, the building.
Once it does that BLE scan, it’s going to quickly transmit that information over to a LoRaWAN gateway, which communicates with InformaCast to get all of that information from the BLE beacon that the badge gathered and send it in to us so that we can place where this badge is on our floor plan and know who activated the badge, when it was activated, and then follow it on its journey during the incident.
So, once that communication has been sent over to InformaCast for the badge being initiated, as I mentioned earlier, our scenarios and incidents kick off in InformaCast. Any notifications that are associated with those are going to go off. Those could be physical SMS communications, email, or other intrusive things like strobes or LED screens.
And then, the security team will be able to use the incident management functionality within InformaCast to actively track that badge wearer’s location on the floor plan, and they’ll be able to send out additional notifications, coordinate their response for that incident.
Dispatch is going to continue doing a scan to figure out those beacons that are nearby every fifteen seconds and transmit that information over to the cloud in order to give us that update every fifteen seconds of where it’s located. It’s gonna do this throughout the the course of that incident.
Once the security team has determined that that user is safe or that the incident is resolved, they can choose to end tracking for the device, and then that will allow the badge to stop tracking and allow the security team to pivot to focus on other users that may need help or other incidents that need their attention.
Chris Swietlik
That’s great. And the badge is only tracking the individual once it’s activated, correct?
Megan Cutting
That is correct. That is the number one question that we have gotten so far about this solution.
The the badge itself is in standby mode when it is not activated. So it is waiting and ready, but not actively tracking where you are on the map. Once you’ve activated it, it is tracking your position and updating the system every fifteen seconds. And then once the safety team resolves the incident, tracking has ended, and the badge returns to that standby state.
Ryan Mauer
All good.
Chris Swietlik
Great.
And we’ve talked a lot about the badge itself. But as you can see in this diagram and a few things that you mentioned, there are a few more hardware components beyond the badge, that help make everything run. Right?
Megan Cutting
Absolutely. There are four components to our wearable device solution. Obviously, we’ve talked about the badge. So, this can be worn on a lanyard, ID, a retractor. We’ve got the two modes, so a three button press for staff assist or a six button press for an emergency. It’s also worth noting that the badge has a one year battery life, and it is rechargeable. So we recommend as summer is coming to a close, that schools do a recharge before signing out the badges for the school year and making sure that everyone is charged and ready to go.
The second device in the solution is a BLE Beacon. So these are small, simple devices that are placed typically at least one per room throughout the school that broadcast a signal that allow us to use that signal for positioning of the badge during an incident. Report. We have supervisor devices. These are put up throughout the school to help us monitor the battery percentage and general health of our beacons, so really helping us ensure that everything is up and running and ready to go should an incident arise.
Then we have a gateway. These are the most important part of the solution other than the badge. This is how we communicate all of the information from these other three devices to the cloud and InformaCast. So this is the bridge between all of those, helping us get all of this device data into InformaCast so that we stay up to date.
Chris Swietlik
Great.
I think that provides a really good overview of how these badges work, especially with that daily and emergency use case. There’s that opportunity to get that daily value out of these tools. Now we have people in the audience here who might be interested in this badge. They’ve maybe already been looking at similar types of solutions, But, you know, every school is different, whether that’s based on size, location, the layout of the building. What do schools really need to have in mind, in terms of the most important things they need to know about this solution if they’re considering it?
Megan Cutting
Sure. So, we’ve talked about quite a few of these. The two alert modes that we offer are a really big function. So, not having to treat every incident the same, but being able to kind of address two tiers of incidents, whether a a lower level, day to day, altercation, health incident, being able to treat those differently than your emergencies that may require a lockdown.
It’s also important to note that our solution does require the school to have floor plans. So this is for a couple different reasons. The first is that we are pinning those Beacon supervisors and floor plan or sorry, not floor plans, gateways to the floor plan in InformaCast where they’re actually installed in the school. So this helps our positioning system determine where that badge is located based on where those devices are located within the school.
And those floor plans are also critical during the active incident. So the security team will be able to see that floor plan, where the badge is located on it, who is associated with that badge in real time so they’ll have that context from the floor plan available to them. The other large thing that I wanna call out is that our wearable solution is embedded within within InformaCast, and it’s the only wearable device that works directly with InformaCast. So we are able to extend our InformaCast functionality, offering an additional trigger for the system’s mass notification and instant management functionality with this device.
Chris Swietlik
Awesome. I think that really sets us up to really bring everything that we’ve been talking about together here. And we have a video that we’d like to play that really shows that practical application of the InformaCast wearable or badge in schools and how it works when those minor and major issues arise. I also just wanna remind people that while that video is playing, it’s a great opportunity to drop any questions you have into that chat. Our team is still standing by to respond and help you get the answers that you need. So we’re gonna go ahead and play that video.
Product Video — InformaCast Wearable Alert Badge demo
When issues arise, your staff need an immediate way to request assistance and alert others. The InformaCast wearable alert badge from Singlewire Software offers schools the ability to provide personal protection to their staff with a wireless panic button that can be used for daily issues and large scale incidents.
Michael’s history class is usually well behaved, but when an argument between two students turns physical, he activates his badge with three button presses to alert others that a localized incident is occurring in his classroom.
The badge determines Michael’s location using signals from nearby beacons and then sends that information to the school’s InformaCast software. Within five seconds of Michael activating the badge, custom alerts are sent to targeted groups and devices, so Michael gets the help he needs quickly to de escalate the situation. His school has configured InformaCast to send the principal an alert on their computer, desk phone, and mobile device, while simultaneous messages are sent to security teams and other staff can provide Within the InformaCast interface or app, recipients can see Michael’s location on a map of the school and track his location should the incident move outside his classroom into the hallway. On the map, staff can also pull up live camera feeds to better assess the situation.
This gives internal teams, like school resource officers, real time insights they can use to deploy a response and successfully resolve an incident.
The InformaCast wearable alert badge also includes a second button press option for more severe situations. Rebecca is the librarian at Michael’s school, and as she moves from the staff lounge to the library, she notices an intruder in the hall with a weapon. She immediately presses the button on her badge six times, initiating a school wide lockdown. Because the badge is connected to InformaCast, schools can customize what happens when the badge is activated to support their response plans.
That could be a school wide message broadcast to speakers, signage, desk phones, and desktop computers with lockdown instructions.
Targeted messages are sent simultaneously to school administrators and safety personnel, with specific instructions on how to manage the lockdown.
Or, depending on how a school wants to handle their response, a combination of the two.
Security teams can see Rebecca’s location when she activates the badge, and see her movements if she’s seeking safety.
Teams can also see if other staff members activate their badge on the same map.
InformaCast can even contact local dispatchers directly, fulfilling the requirements of Alyssa’s Law and reducing response times by automatically alerting first responders that an incident has occurred, that local law enforcement should be sent to the school to help resolve the issue.
And all of this happens within seconds, securing the schools quickly, and mobilizing a multi pronged response to minimize harm and resolve incidents as quickly as possible. With InformaCast software in place, schools also have four other panic button options they can leverage if someone does not have a badge on them. The InformaCast mobile app includes a panic button that can be activated from anywhere, and the InformaCast desktop app can be configured with keyboard shortcuts that serve as panic buttons.
Schools can also integrate their desk phones with InformaCast and configure virtual panic buttons on soft keys and connect InformaCast to mounted panic buttons placed on walls or under desks to make it as easy as possible to request help and alert others. Once the threat is neutralized, schools can use InformaCast to signal that danger has passed with an all clear message, and manage the reunification process with parents and guardians.
The InformaCast Wearable Alert Badge. One device backed by powerful software to send instant alerts, reach the right people, and respond faster.
Chris Swietlik
Okay. As we’re nearing the end here, Ryan, I’m wondering if you could just walk us through, you know, what are really the key benefits of this solution? We’ve had Megan walk through how it works. We’ve had a good discussion about the challenges, and we’ve we’ve seen the video just play about how it works. But, you know, what are the things that our audience needs to understand that they’re gonna be able to take advantage of when implementing this solution?
Ryan Mauer
Yeah, absolutely. You know, I think the first thing is, you know, we touched on it earlier, is there’s a confidence factor that comes into play when you’re wearing a physical wearable panic button, right? So there’s quick access. Again, we’ve talked about seconds matter, right?
So the ability to initiate a trigger quickly via that six button press is gonna be extremely important. And as Megan referenced, there’s LEDs that once that button’s been pressed, those LEDs allow us to know that alerting is occurring, but it’s still discrete, right? So we want to ensure that that aspect is going to continue forward. The ability then, from a confidence factor in that everyday support, there’s ways that we’ve always thought about, from an InformaCast standpoint, and you touched on that, Chris, the ability to use the product and the solution on a daily basis.
Right? Those communication endpoints, like speakers and the PA that’s in a building today, the phones that are in a building today, the digital signage that’s in a building today. We built the same methodology into the wearable. Megan and her team did an outstanding job.
So she referenced three button presses, those routine incidents, right? We still want to ensure that that communication cycle is layered into the solution. And then that six button press allows us obviously to start creating an elevated quick response mechanism via our incident management platform. So that layered in with the location aspect is obviously extremely important for us, as she was speaking to the Beacon supervisors that are deployed inside of any one building environment.
And going way back to the beginning, in terms of Alyssa’s Law compliance aspect, there are numerous states that have legislation that’s already in play.
We’re very aware of that. There’s a good number more of states that have that legislation that’s in process. But regardless of where that aspect is, as we touched on earlier, the number one concern from a parent standpoint is safety.
So regardless of where that compliance is in play, which is extremely important for us, we recognize that our solution and the solution in general can provide a lot of confidence inside of those the streets and their buildings and their staff.
Chris Swietlik
I think that’s, brings us to a really good place, for our our final message of this webinar, which is a special message from Lori Alhadeff.
Lori is the founder of Make Our Schools Safe. It’s a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting students and teachers at school.
Lori has a very personal connection to the topics that we’ve covered today, and I’m gonna have her introduce herself and share why she thinks it’s important for schools to have a solution like this in place.
Lori Alhadeff — President & Co-Founder · Make Our Schools Safe
Hello. My name is Lori Alhadeff, and I am the cofounder of the non profit organization Make Our Schools Safe. My husband and I, Dr. Ilan Alhadeff, we started Make Our Schools Safe after the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School where our daughter Alyssa was murdered. She was shot eight times in our English classroom And we decided to turn our pain and grief into action with Make Our Schools Safe, focusing on Alyssa’s Law.
Alyssa’s Law is a panic button used in a medical emergency or the worst case scenario an active shooter on campus. Alyssa’s law has been passed in ten states: New Jersey, New York, Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Utah, Florida Washington State, Oregon, and in Georgia. And our goal is to pass Alyssa’s Law nationwide as a standard level of school safety protection in every school across the country. And we have a federal bill called Alyssa’s Act.
Alyssa’s Act requires standards around emergency response.
I am working diligently to try to get Alyssa’s Law passed nationwide.
However, if your state hasn’t passed Alyssa’s law yet, we still need to get your panic button. And it’s so vitally important. This is a crucial layer of safety protection in emergency situations.
We need to bridge that gap of communication and pushing that panic button and getting help there faster will definitely help to save lives.
As a school board member of Broward County Public Schools, we know that threats unfortunately happen every day in our schools and we need to have the ability to identify these threats as quickly as possible and prevent them from happening.
Our students and staff are our first priority and we need to have technology that is reliable and gets the help that is needed as quickly as possible to the school so we can help to save lives.
I’m so glad to know like companies like Singlewire Software are helping to make Alyssa’s Law come to fruition and to help to get that panic button to be used in the medical emergency or active shooter directly linked to law enforcement so we can get help on the scene as quickly as possible. Time equals life. And the faster that we can get help on the scene, the more lives that we can save.
Chris Swietlik
I want to thank Lori for sharing. I think we can all agree that we should be doing whatever it takes to keep our kids safe in schools. And her efforts, along with the technology that is being developed by Singlewire Software and and other organizations, is really gonna help all of us get a lot closer to achieving that goal.
I’d also like to thank Terry Swanson as well as Ryan and Megan for joining us today and sharing their insights.
And as a final reminder, this session has been recorded, and we’ll send you a link out to the recording after the session has concluded if you need to review anything or would like to share with other colleagues.
If you’re interested in the InformaCast wearable alert badge or our InformaCast software, you can fill out the form at singlewire.com/demo, and members of our team will be following up to see if you have any questions.
I wanna thank everyone again for joining us today, and I wish you all a great day.