By making this shooting incident as realistic as possible, it allowed us to properly assess our Emergency Response Plan and identify areas where we can make improvements in preparation for a real-life incident, We were able to recognize gaps in our system and where even more redundancy is needed.

People recount seeing multiple computer screens all in rows light up with the desktop alert, and it was pretty much simultaneous with the indoor siren messages they received, and the text messages they received.

In an age of improvement like the present, society does not rest satisfied with the achievement of mere essentials. The genius of civilization demands progress until absolute perfection is attained.

I’m very excited to install the text-to-speech system in our science center, I want to add this to other buildings where the fire alarm system will support it.

During the simulation, the Alertus System gave us a timely warning and functioned without any issues. Everything worked flawlessly, Every concern we had with the past system has been addressed as the Alertus System far surpassed our expectations.

I think the Alertus system is self explanatory. It’s so simple; it’s pretty much idiot proof. It allows you to quickly send a message that has an audible with the sirens, a visual with the strobes, and a message on the display. How much more simple can that be? As long as you have the Alert Beacons in a place where people can hear them, they work. As Alertus continually introduces new features like the integration with the digital displays and desktop popups, the system gets even more powerful. But no matter how much we integrate with the system, it’s still essentially a one-button solution. Alertus is simple and, being a cop, I’ll tell you that we like things simple.

We used to give all of our administrative staff and principals pagers, and we found that people didn’t want to carry them once they got cellphones. We also found that the pagers and cellphones in our schools are fairly unreliable. They just don’t work in some locations, and in the case of pagers, people might forget them, or the batteries might be dead. So the problem was that we would try to do an emergency closing and only hit around 75% of our facilities. Leaving the other 25% in the dark.

The Alertus solution allows us to connect multiple command centers so that if someone issues an alert for an emergency, either at the university or the medical center, the message can be set to go to all or select individuals so that everyone is informed of the situation, Among most organizations that common operational picture becomes very important.

We wanted the Alertus system to use existing overhead paging systems in each of the facilities so that it would broadcast the Code Red message in accordance with the criteria established by our authorities having jurisdiction, All of these components were critical to making sure that the system increased the reliability, responsiveness, and accuracy over what we had with a manual process.

For example, an alert that has no pertaining information to our off-site clinics, then there’s no reason that the clinic needs to know about it. But if there’s a disaster alert that needs to go out to all clinics, then we would send it that way.

There were gaps in our communication for routine and emergency alerts, many areas in the facility did not receive the primary alert from the Overhead Paging when it was announced (or it was inaudible), When we looked to identify areas which had communication deficient areas; we also identified modes of communication to fill the gaps from the Overhead Paging system for our Mass Communication System Plan.

It doesn’t have to be a chemical incident, It can be any kind of emergency that could require a lockdown or shelter in place.

To protect the lives and property of all residents when major disasters threaten public safety in any part of Laclede County.

The chance of surviving an active shooter situation drops dramatically when you stay in the building, On average, it takes about 18 minutes to get the police to your door, while the active shooter situation is over in 12 minutes.

A next step may be to have emergency notification pushed through cell phones, We aim for automatic communication by multiple means to best reach customers with diverse communication preferences.

We don’t have a siren system or a PA system, but just using the Alertus Desktop in conjunction with e2campus you could see hundreds and hundreds of people exiting buildings and following the directions we gave via the alert messages.