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Genesis’s Emergency Notification Solutions

by lisa July 10, 2024

Genesis’s Emergency Notification Solutions offers an integrated suite of tools designed to recognize and respond to on-site emergencies, making it an ideal match for your company. The solution detects emergency calls the moment they are initiated and pulls information from various sources to determine the appropriate alert recipients, the method of alert, the information to include, and any additional actions to take. This ensures a comprehensive and efficient response to emergencies, enhancing overall safety and awareness within your organization.

Genesis’s Emergency Notifications Solutions provide on-site alerting, significantly improving staff awareness and safety during critical times. Without the right tools, emergencies can go unnoticed until emergency services arrive, wasting valuable time and potentially jeopardizing safety. This is particularly important for larger organizations, those with after-hours workers, and in the context of the trend towards fewer staff working on-site. With Genesis you can receive alerting capabilities via desktop and web apps, emails, SMS, text-to-speech, and paging ensure that the right staff are notified promptly and accurately.

Contact Genesis today to see if our Emergency Notifications Solutions are the right fit for your business.

What is NG911?

by lisa February 22, 2024

Next Generation 911 (NG911) represents a transformative leap in emergency communication systems, revolutionizing how individuals seek help and how responders deploy assistance.

Unlike traditional 911 services, NG911 integrates multiple additional technologies, enabling callers to transmit not just voice but also text messages, images, videos, and even sensor data to emergency dispatchers. This advancement enhances accessibility for those with speech or hearing impairments and provides crucial context for responders, expediting the dispatch process and potentially saving lives.

NG911 migration also represents a shift in how voice calls are delivered to emergency call centers and dispatchers, paving the way for more seamless communication across various devices, platforms, emergency services and locales. NG911 likewise provides an architecture within which new technologies can be more easily supported as society evolves and new communication methods emerge. NG911 ensures that emergency response systems are able to evolve alongside, adapting to meet the diverse needs of communities and improving the effectiveness of emergency services overall.

Call Genesis Systems today to find out more about NG911 and how our solutions can help improve alerting, issue detection and reporting within your emergency call center.