Higher Education - Mass Notification and Campus Alerting Solutions

Universities and colleges face many challenges concerning campus mass notification solutions. Staff and student body are typically highly mobile and widely dispersed on open and accessible grounds. There isn’t a single communication channel that can effectively and quickly reach the entire population in an emergency situation. Network-centric mass notification products can overcome this challenge by leveraging the existing IP network for a pervasive, integrated, and cost-effective mass notification solution.

AtHoc provides universities and colleges with solutions to reach students and staff via PCs, personal digital assistants (PDAs), landlines and cell phones, smart phones, BlackBerry devices, and PA systems in real time. AtHoc’s solutions allow authorized managers to trigger and control alerts through a single, unified Web-based console.

Higher Learning Institutions Can Rely on
Mass Notification for:

• Student and Staff Protection – Mass dissemination of alerts to personnel to accelerate threat response
• Personnel Accountability – Receive feedback on alerts to know status of recipient during a crisis
• Updated Contact Information – Ensure emergency contact information is accurate through integration with existing data sources
• Regulatory Compliance – Meeting federal and state regulations and requirements such as section 508, HEA and the Clery Act

The AtHoc IWSAlerts Solution:

• Transforms an existing IP network into a comprehensive, enterprise-class campus mass notification solution for rapid communication, boundless reach and cost effectiveness
• Unifies all communication channels and devices, including networked computers, land/mobile phones, sirens, digital display boards, radios and more, into a single system to simplify activation, ensure message consistency and reduce alerting time
• Manages the emergency mass notification process across the campus by providing pre-defined scenarios, operator access policies, multi-location support, alert activation flow, tracking and reporting

• Monitors video feeds, physical sensors and external data sources to automatically trigger notification scenarios
• Ensures continuous accuracy of personnel contact information by integrating with enterprise directories, providing operator user management tools and supporting end user self-service

Additional Value Proposition:

We at AtHoc place a high degree of emphasis on customer satisfaction and creating an emergency mass notification solution that fits their needs now and into the future. Our product strategy demonstrates our commitment to understanding our customers and reflects in our outstanding customer retention rate. AtHoc’s enduring relationships with leading providers have been forged on an abiding mutual trust as we proactively provide new features and functionality and tailor solutions for enterprises across multiple industries, including the campus environment.

Our flagship product, AtHoc IWSAlerts, protects over 2 million people worldwide by utilizing an organizations’ most pervasive asset – the IP network. AtHoc IWSAlerts transforms the IP network into an enterprise-class emergency mass notification system that is scalable, secure, code-compliant, cost effective, and its system architecture is designed to support flexible cloud deployment options based on the customers’ needs. Through a unifying, web-based console, emergency bi-directional alerts are delivered through multiple communication channels and devices via the AtHoc Unified Notification Server (UNS).

We work hand in hand with our customers to deliver the AtHoc promise of excellence and ongoing dedication to meeting the critical communication needs of our customers to preserve life and property. To learn more about the depth and breadth of our integrated product offerings, please visit our integrated product catalog that expresses our spirit and philosophy for collaboration, intended for the ultimate benefit of our customers.