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GenAware Paging for Educational Institutions

by lisa March 7, 2024

Today's educational institutions demand robust safety measures to protect students and staff. Genesis' Emergency Alerting & Management Solutions offer tailored support for education facilities, enhancing safety protocols with GenAware Paging.

GenAware Paging enables rapid alerting and on-site paging, tailored for education settings. It offers diverse alerting options, broadcasting messages across SIP phones, email, SMS, and more.

With event-driven paging, GenAware Paging targets precise locations automatically, ensuring relevant information reaches the right recipients without delay. Zone-specific paging triggers messages in multiple areas simultaneously, allowing customized alerts based on severity and location.

Education facilities can initiate targeted or campus-wide alerts, including lockdowns and weather notifications, with real-time delivery via various channels. Staged alerting prioritizes messages, ensuring effective communication in dynamic situations.

Integration with existing infrastructure is seamless, optimizing operational efficiency while supporting scalability and future interoperability. Cross-platform compatibility accommodates both on-premises & cloud-based systems and various alerting and mobile device manufacturers, modernizing safety measures across campuses.

Genesis' Emergency Alerting Solutions provide education facilities with a comprehensive and efficient safety strategy, ensuring timely communication and collaborative efforts to safeguard the campus community. Contact us for more information.

Incident Aware Paging

by lisa February 16, 2024

In today's fast-paced world, effective communication is paramount for any organization. Whether it's coordinating responses to emergencies, disseminating critical information, or simply keeping everyone informed, the ability to reach the right people at the right time can make all the difference. This is where paging systems come into play, offering a versatile and efficient solution that can significantly enhance communication within your organization.

One of the key benefits of paging systems is their ability to initiate alerts across a wide range of communication channels. With the features Incident Aware Paging offers, organizations can broadcast alerts not only through traditional paging devices but also via sip phones, multicast devices, email, SMS, desktop computers, mobile devices, fire and alarm panels, and more. This ensures that critical messages reach recipients through multiple mediums, increasing the likelihood of timely responses.

Another advantage of Incident Aware Paging is the ability to geo-target pages to precise locations automatically. Whether it's a specific address, building, or designated paging zone, organizations can ensure that alerts are directed precisely where they're needed most. This level of precision is invaluable during emergencies, enabling organizations to provide targeted instructions or updates to specific areas without causing unnecessary alarm or confusion elsewhere.

Furthermore, Incident Aware Paging allows organizations to trigger alerts in multiple zones or locations simultaneously, based on the type of alert. This capability is particularly useful for large campuses or facilities with multiple buildings or departments. Broadcasted messages can be customized to play different audio based on the alert type and the location of paging equipment, ensuring that recipients receive relevant information tailored to their specific context.

Incident Aware Paging offers a variety of alert types, allowing organizations to initiate site-wide or location-specific lockdowns, panic alarms, weather alerts, and more. Whether it's a pre-recorded message or a real-time custom audio alert, organizations have the flexibility to choose the most appropriate method of communication for any given situation. This versatility enables quick and effective responses to a wide range of scenarios, enhancing overall safety and security.

Most importantly, Incident Aware Paging facilitates real-time communication, ensuring that pages and alerts are delivered promptly to all recipients. Whether it's overhead paging, sip phones, fire and alarm panels, organizations can rest assured that critical information will reach the intended audience without delay. This real-time delivery capability is essential during emergencies when every second counts, allowing organizations to coordinate responses and mitigate risks more effectively.

In conclusion, Incident Aware Paging offers a range of benefits that can greatly enhance communication within organizations. From diverse alerting channels and precision paging to zone-specific alerts and real-time delivery, these systems provide the tools necessary to effectively communicate during emergencies and everyday operations alike. By investing in Incident Aware Paging, organizations can ensure that they're equipped to handle whatever challenges may arise, keeping their employees, customers, and assets safe and secure.

Emergencies Are Unpredictable. Guide Your Response with Incident Aware

by lisa January 11, 2024

Embrace Next-Generation Emergency Communication: Incident Aware transcends traditional boundaries, providing a comprehensive solution for rapid response and effective crisis management, tailored for today's dynamic organizations.

Feature Highlights:

  • Instant On-Site Emergency Alerting: Easily initiate critical alerts like panic alarms and lockdowns with just two clicks. Reach multiple locations instantly for an efficient response.
  • Mass Notifications Simplified: Communicate swiftly for events like closures or emergencies via SMS, email, or app notifications, reaching every corner of your organization.
  • Simplified Incident Reporting: Capture and record incidents in real-time with GPS precision, add multimedia, and customize incident types for accurate, detailed reporting.
  • Powerful Incident Collaboration: Foster real-time communication among responders, enhancing coordination and emergency management.
  • Innovative SIP and Paging Integration: Seamlessly integrate with existing SIP and paging systems, enabling comprehensive alert coverage and efficient communication.

With Incident Aware, you're not just adopting a system; you're securing a future of informed and empowered response. It's an investment in peace of mind, ensuring that your organization is equipped to easily handle emergencies with unmatched efficiency and clarity.

Genesis Adds Lockdown Code Functionality to GenAlert E911 Solution

by Nathan September 10, 2015

Genesis Systems, working with a number of school boards and health authorities, has added functionality to our GenAlert E911 real-time notification package for additional non-emergency alerting. Users are now able to use our solution to generate other types of non-emergency alerts that may not be generated by making a 9-1-1 call.

This functionality is currently being implemented into a number of hospitals and schools to generate building lock-down alerts (using special codes) notifying staff of events such as missing patients / students or dangerous persons on the premises. Having a Real-time alerting (E911) solution is important for staff safety, but there are still important alerts that need to be delivered quickly that do not require a call to 9-1-1.