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Incident Aware for Education Facilities

by lisa November 17, 2023

Implementing Incident Aware as your school’s safety measure with overhead paging, multi-channel communication, and instant alerts offers several advantages:

  1. Immediate Response: The use of overhead paging and instant alerts enables a swift and immediate response to potential threats. In emergency situations, every second counts, and these technologies facilitate rapid communication to ensure a quick reaction from both staff and emergency responders.
  2. Multi-Channel Communication: Utilizing multiple communication channels, such as overhead paging, smartphone alerts, and other devices, ensures that crucial information reaches a broad audience. This redundancy minimizes the risk of missed notifications, reaching both on-site personnel and stakeholders beyond the school premises.
  3. Comprehensive Reach: Extending safety alerts to neighboring schools enhances the overall safety network. In the event of a regional incident, collaborative efforts and shared information contribute to a more coordinated and effective response, fostering a sense of community security.
  4. Parent and Guardian Involvement: Alerts to smartphones keep parents and guardians informed about unfolding situations. This not only reassures them about their child's safety but also allows them to take appropriate actions, such as adjusting their own schedules or reaching out to school officials.
  5. Unified Emergency Response: The integration of these technologies creates a unified emergency response system. Overhead paging, multi-channel communication, and instant alerts allow for seamless coordination between school staff, law enforcement, and emergency services, promoting a cohesive and organized approach to managing crises.

The combination of overhead paging, multi-channel communication, and instant alerts with Incident Aware, provides a comprehensive and efficient school safety strategy, addressing the need for immediate action, widespread communication, and collaborative efforts to ensure the well-being of students, staff, and the broader school community.

What is Incident Aware?

by Nathan June 12, 2023

Incident Aware is a powerful tool that assists users in efficiently triggering Alerts, Mass Notifications and documenting incidents using highly customizable templates. Incident Aware is an effective tool used to initiate lockdowns, assist a lone worker in a time need or create a panic alert to ????? It offers a range of features to enhance incident management and streamline response efforts. Here are some highlights of Incident Aware:


1. Recording Incidents: Incident Aware guides users through the process of recording incidents, ensuring that all relevant details are captured. The customizable templates make it easy to gather specific information related to different types of incidents.

2. Alerting: The platform enables users to trigger alerts quickly and easily. These alerts can include GPS locations, ensuring that responders have accurate information about the incident's location.

3. Incident Details: Incident Aware allows users to document comprehensive incident details, helping to create a thorough record for future reference. This information can include descriptions, images, videos, timestamps, and any other relevant data.

4. Broadcasting Messages and Instructions: Users can utilize Incident Aware to broadcast messages or provide special instructions to individuals involved in the incident or other stakeholders. This feature aids in disseminating critical information promptly.

5. Remote Device Triggering: The platform supports triggering remote devices, allowing users to activate specific equipment or systems that are essential for incident response. This capability enhances the effectiveness and speed of the response efforts.

6. Streamlined Record Keeping: Incident Aware helps streamline record-keeping processes by automatically organizing and storing incident data. This centralized storage ensures that information is readily accessible for future analysis, reporting, or reference purposes.

7. Workflow Automation: The platform automates workflows, simplifying and optimizing response efforts. By automating repetitive tasks or standard procedures, Incident Aware enables responders to focus on critical aspects of incident management.

Contact Genesis for more information or a demo of Incident Aware, and to find out how we can help improve your staff communication & safety.

On-Site Emergency Alerting

by Nathan April 8, 2023

Genesis GenAlert Emergency Notifications Solution is a comprehensive system designed to assist in recognizing and responding to emergency situations, including 911 calls, on-site. The solution is equipped with various tools to effectively handle emergency notifications.

One of the key features of GenAlert is its ability to detect the initiation of an emergency call. When a call for help is made, the system recognizes the urgency and takes immediate action.

To determine whom to alert, GenAlert retrieves information from multiple sources. This information can include the caller's location, relevant contact details, and any specific protocols or guidelines that need to be followed based on the type of emergency.

Once the appropriate contacts have been identified, GenAlert decides how to notify them. This can be done through various communication channels such as text messages, phone calls, emails, or even automated voice announcements. The system selects the most efficient method based on the urgency and preferences of the recipients.

Moreover, GenAlert ensures that the notifications contain all the necessary information to provide a clear understanding of the emergency situation as well as critical details on responding and what procedures should be followed. It may include details such as the nature of the emergency, the caller's location, and any relevant instructions or updates.

Genesis GenAlert Emergency Notifications Solution combines advanced detection capabilities, information retrieval, effective communication channels, automated actions, and rapid event notifications to streamline emergency response and enhance overall safety protocols in real-time as events unfold.

Contact us for more information on Genesis GenAlert, and how we can solve your emergency notification needs.

E911 Alerting for All Telephone Systems!

by Nathan March 31, 2022

We're excited to announce our latest enhancement to E911, lockdown and evacuation alerting.. Support for ALL on-premises and cloud telephone solutions!

Now, users of nearly any telephone solution can benefit from our full alerting capabilities, which include (but are not limited to):

- In-App push notifications via our native Android & iOS app (available in the Google & Apple App Stores)

- Email & native SMS

- Desktop screen pops

- Overhead pages

- Audible alerts on telephone sets

- Visual alerting hardware

- Team Messaging Solutions (Teams, RingCentral MVP, etc.)

- and more!

Not only can you send your staff alerts via all these paths, but you can also flexibly choose when, where and how to alert certain staff based on what best fits your needs. You can choose to selectively alert any on-site or off-site staff, or specify groups to notify depending on the type of incident. You can track staff responses and compel responses to ensure safety, and see in real-time if any staff left in the building, and where... and more.

The best part is that Genesis uses your existing telephone system(s), paging equipment, and smart devices to provide a total safety and alerting solution! No additional hardware to buy and no retrofits or replacement equipment or phone system upgrades are required. There is simply no easier or more cost effective solution available to you today!

Call us at 1-888-993-2288 to talk to someone now, or email us at sales@buygenesis.com for more information. Whether you're a prospective or current Genesis user, we're excited to show you how we can improve your organization's safety quickly, easily and cost effectively.