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The AtHoc Advantage

Network-Centric Mass Notification The IP network is a pervasive and highly available resource that serves as the infrastructure to almost every facility, campus, government agency and commercial organization. AtHoc’s solutions transform the IP network and all its connected devices, wired or wireless, into an emergency notification system. Desktops, laptops and PCs become alarms, allowing organizations to disseminate intrusive audio/visual alerts to thousands of personnel, regardless of location, within seconds. These alerts provide critical emergency information, suggested course of action, and user response options.

By exploiting the IP network, AtHoc solutions solve some of the most difficult challenges associated with mass emergency notification. These include the ability to reach tens of thousands of personnel regardless of their location, within seconds, containing the relevant message. Delivery tracking and acknowledgement from all recipients provides for personnel accountability.

Unified Alerting Management Many organizations today rely on traditional forms of alerting, such as public address (PA) communications, sirens and loud speakers, and telephony and text-messaging services. In an emergency, every second counts and emergency managers cannot waste valuable time triggering and managing multiple independent alerting channels, each with their own scenarios, recipient contact information, and user groups.

AtHoc solutions provide a single management console to launch and manage all the communication channels simultaneously, providing a consistent alert across all delivery devices including PCs, cell phones, PDAs, pagers, BlackBerries, computer kiosks, landline phones, sirens, and PA systems. With a sophisticated dashboard showing alert acknowledgements and personnel status, organizations have real-time visibility into personnel accountability, facilitating a safe and effective response.

Enterprise-class Architecture AtHoc has helped build some of the largest and most sophisticated emergency notification systems in the world. Our solutions employ a highly secure, redundant, web-based architecture to manage the entire emergency notification process, allowing organizations to implement standard emergency operating practices and procedures.

With an open, standards-based architecture, our solutions integrate with existing user directories, supporting organizational hierarchy and groups, and allow criteria-based targeting of alerts including group, location, or role. Organizations can create role-based users such as operators, administrators and recipients based on their access rights across multiple facilities, campuses and installations. Business rules determine operator permissions and actions such as creating and activating scenarios, as well as the reach of alerts and the delivery devices to be used.

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