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Mass Notification
Mass Notification is rapidly gaining traction as a comprehensive solution that leverages cutting-edge communications technology to not only warn people of danger, but to keep them informed and guide them to safety.
While many people believe the development of Mass Notification Systems to be a result of the horrific events of September 11th, the actual development of Mass Notification can be traced to June 25, 1996, when terrorists exploded a fuel truck adjacent to a housing complex in Khobar, Saudi Arabia. The eight-story building housed U.S. Air Force personnel. In all, 19 service members and one Saudi were killed, and 372 others were wounded.
A year later, then U.S. Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, issued the Khobar Tower Report. This document concluded that there were lapses in force protection, no effective alarm systems, no Mass Notification capabilities, and that damage and loss of life could have been reduced had there been a plan in place to respond to the threat.
Since the issuance of that report in 1997, Mass Notification systems and methods of notification are continually evolving.
Today’s technologies include:
- In-building audible and visual signaling
- Giant voice outdoor loudspeaker systems
- Critical Response Notification Systems (CRNS) for notification via desktops, public displays, phones, text messaging, and email.
As a GE Security Strategic Partner, providing voice instructional fire alarm systems since 1981, we are well prepared to design and furnish GE’s EST3-Sixty Mass Notification System which is an adjunct to the well established EST3 and Fireworks fire alarm platform.
EST3-Sixty has proven so effective, so robust, yet so survivable, that it’s been singled out as the first system listed by Underwriters Laboratories to their new UL 2572 mass notification standard. This development has enormous implications for decision-makers who specify emergency communications systems.
The EST3-Sixty is designed to provide both in-building and outdoor audio and visual information and can integrate to a REACT CRNS that unify critical communications in emergencies and time-sensitive situations. The REACT system can reach thousands of users, within seconds — delivering targeted and verifiable audio/video notifications to first responders and to the public.