Communicating in Emergency Situations

BlazeCast plays an integral part in emergency preparedness plans. Managers and administrators can immediately notify their students, patients, employees or the outside community through multiple channels like land/mobile phones, SMS, PC desktops, email and paging to both overhead speakers and phone sets. By using these various means of communication, BlazeCast ensures everyone gets important messages like lockdown, evacuations, or any other dangerous situations.

Daily Uses of BlazeCast

Because BlazeCast is an integrated component of an organization's IP network, sending broadcasts and messages daily is a quick and cost-effective option unavailable to purely hosted solutions. For example, schools can capitalize on their phone and paging system and use BlazeCast day-to-day for routine notices, daily messaging, and as a convenient way to reach out to the community. Using phone trees or having over-taxed administrators spend all day notifying parents and employees of important issues become unnecessary with BlazeCast's fast and automated messaging system.

Integration with Paging

Because BlazeCast can function as a paging controller, you get much wider covereage than phone dialing or SMS messaging alone. Overhead paging works well in environments where you may not have comprehensive contact information for the people you want to reach, and is especially effective in urgent situations. Learn more about BlazeCast Paging and why SMS is not enough

Message Confirmation and Find-Me

BlazeCast also allows recipients to confirm receipt of the message through their touch-tone phone. If a recipient has more than one listed number, BlazeCast will try each number until a confirmation is received. Users are informed in real time of the state of their broadcast; they can see exactly which recipients were contacted, which speakers relayed the message, and when the notification occurred.

Key Benefits

Safety, Security & Peace of Mind

• Instantly deliver messages to employees, first responders, family, and friends about emergencies, closures, and reminders.
• Deliver custom messages, such as evacuation procedures, to different locations on your campus by using BlazeCast to broadcast to IP speakers.
• Immediately discuss and respond to emergency situations by conferencing with key people at a moment's notice.

Convenience

• Never be out-of-touch: reach key people at critical times with Find-Me technology.
• Contact customers and employees with reminders and business updates via their mobile phones.

Ease of Use

• Avoid wasting time updating contact information: BlazeCast seamlessly integrates with existing contact management systems.
• Accomplish major tasks with just a few clicks: BlazeCast's web interface is accessible anywhere and designed for usability.