Active Shooter and Armed Intruder
Event Mass Notification
Active shooter incidents can happen anywhere, at any given moment — and it’s crucial to intervene fast with warnings for everyone in danger. As a unified mass notification provider for more than 2,000 organizations, including schools, business corporations, and medical centers, Alertus provides comprehensive and reliable emergency notification coverage when it matters the most.
On average, active shooter incidents take place over five to seven minutes. That’s why Alertus offers a wide range of preparedness solutions designed to rapidly detect armed intruder activity and disseminate instructional active shooter alerts within seconds to everyone, everywhere.
By unifying the entire notification process under one easy-to-use platform, the Alertus Mass Notification System serves to enhance and improve your active shooter emergency action plan.
Alertus System Features
Integration with existing communication devices and systems
Single point of activation
Intelligible alerting capability, including Text-to-Speech technology
Customized, preset emergency templates
Targeted alerting
Integrating Mass Notification and Intelligent Building Systems for Autonomous Alerting
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Surveillance Camera Integration
Proactively mitigating harm is key to protecting your community amid an armed intruder in the workplace or on campus. Alertus helps you achieve automatic active shooter identification through smart camera technology integration.
For instance, the Alertus System can notify security personnel about intruder recognition or raised arm movement from existing smart camera footage.
Building Automation & sENSOR iNTEGRATION
In addition to existing communication devices, the Alertus System uses the Internet of Things (IoT) technology to integrate with various fundamental building automation systems for maximum situational awareness and advanced incident management. This could be gun detection sensors, door access control, and more.
One-Step Activation
The last thing you want is to lose valuable time deploying multiple disparate notification systems during a life-threatening active shooter incident. Using Alertus’ one-touch activation options, from scenario-specific buttons to mobile activation on the go, authorized dispatchers are empowered to save lives with immediate activation of all emergency endpoints simultaneously by a single touch.
Audible & Visual Notification
An efficient active shooter plan should include audible and visual notification devices to ensure organization-wide reach and account for all individuals. Alertus offers devices like the Alert Beacon®, which uses emergency tone sounders, voice synthesis, and screen display text to send a clear and informative active shooter alert such as: “An armed intruder has been reported on the sixth floor. Please remain in your current location until further notice.”
IP AlertinG
With Alertus’ network-based alerting capability, your IP network can be leveraged to facilitate emergency notification via network-connected devices. Existing IP communication tools, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone software and desktop computers, quickly transform into active shooter alerting assets.
“There was an active shooter incident at JHH in September of 2010 ... from that situation, we found that our emergency communication system was inadequate, to say the least. We ended up partnering with Alertus to install Alert Beacon devices in many buildings for audible and visual notification capability. In addition, our IT department also collaborated with Alertus to implement the Alertus Desktop™ Notification on our desktop computers.”
