Mass Notification Solutions for Educational Campuses
Schools need to be able to alert faculty, staff, and students in the event of an emergency. Does your school or district have the proper technologies in place to quickly and effectively deploy mass notifications? Are those technologies capable of alerting everyone in your entire school or district if the need arises? Mass notification systems are a mission-critical component of an effective school safety strategy and with our help, can be attained quickly and cost-effectively.
Business Overview | Improving Campus Safety Alerting Systems
Ensuring the safety of all students and faculty is a major priority for public and private schools, regardless of school size or location. To that end, school systems need to possess the best mass notification hardware and software to help keep everyone safe. No matter the situation, school faculty, security, and administration teams must be able to provide instant audio-visual alerts to everyone in their schools and districts to keep everyone out of harm’s way. MCA can provide these solutions, and more — ensuring the safest campuses possible.
Current Challenge | Threat and Emergency Notifications
Unfortunately, we live in a world full of threats to student safety. Without expertly planned out mass notification systems, coordinating activities campus-wide can be extremely difficult. All schools need to be able to immediately alert designated groups of people depending upon the event that requires a set of planned actions. Intruders on campus, weather developments, and pandemic outbreaks all require a different set of notifications, processes and procedures, and your mass notification systems serve as an immediate guide as to what actions your teams need to start taking, and fast.
Many schools have a myriad of systems already in place, such as PA speakers, light beacons, outdoor and indoor sirens, two-way radios, digital message boards, and more — each triggered manually and independently. In those cases, they require a unified system that can combine all the devices they currently have, add those they still need, and key activations across all devices and systems at once to streamline the emergency actions their staff must perform.
Solution Overview | RapidWarn Software and Whelen Sirens
School administrators need the quickest, most effective ways to warn the public of engineered or natural events such as viral outbreaks, tornadoes, flash floods, severe weather, campus safety issues, or chemical releases. Our MNS systems provide the most effective public warnings by issuing tones, sirens, and clear, intelligible voice instructions for your people to follow. Along with Whelen’s three-step approach, A.I.D.TM (ALERT, INFORM & DIRECT), we help you eliminate confusion, restore order, and, most importantly, save lives. And with the RapidWarn® application, you can activate over a dozen of types of warning devices in several different ways.
Our Team | Solution Engineering, Installation, and Support
Are you prepared for all possible scenarios? The quickest way to warn the public of an emergency is with a siren or voice message that can be heard by all. Our systems are used to alert, inform, and direct the masses of both human-made and natural events that require action. MCA has developed an end-to-end suite of solutions for safety and security. MCA enables you to work with a single source to get your alerting systems stabilized and on track.