Implementing VoIP Phone Notifications: 4 Benefits for Military Environments
By Stephanie Osorno, Marketing Copywriter at Alertus Technologies
Whether it’s a severe weather event, an intruder incident, or even a COVID-19 announcement, quick communication is key to keeping everyone safe and regularly informed — especially within a critical, high-risk environment such as a military facility.
How do you ensure rapid critical alerting? Are you able to effectively disseminate information to your military base?
Successful crisis communication can easily be achieved by choosing a mass notification system that can leverage existing military communication assets, such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone software. Take a look at how implementing VoIP phone notifications can enhance your crisis military communication efforts.
1. Audible-Visual Notification
Implementing audible and visual notification is a great way to quickly capture the attention of all personnel on site during a crisis. With VoIP phone software integrations, including Cisco and Avaya, your ordinary desk phone can transform into a powerful platform for both.
So how does it work? Once an alert is activated, the recipient will hear a recorded message or an audio tone right on their VoIP phone. The alert will also appear on the phone screen as easy-to-read stationary or scrolling text. To ensure notification delivery, people using the phone can still receive audio messages with non-intrusive whisper mode, ensuring the broadest coverage possible.
2. Instant Activation
Rapid communication is highly dependent on your facility's emergency plan activation process. Keep in mind that your critical alerting activation should be as simple as possible to avoid notification delay and keep your base protected when it matters the most.
A great benefit of leveraging VoIP phone notification is instant, reliable, and convenient activation for time-sensitive notifications. Using a set of predefined extensions, you can immediately activate your notification system directly from a desktop VoIP phone.
In addition to offering a panic button feature with just the press of a button, your VoIP phone serves as a one-stop solution for activating and receiving alerts right at your desk.
3. Integrated, Multilayered Communication
VoIP phones can integrate with your existing networked infrastructure, IP assets, and innovative alerting endpoints to increase communication redundancy and heighten awareness. This will also help to maintain consistent base-wide notifications to ensure all those affected, including military personnel and on-cite civilians, receive important mass notifications. Integrating two-way radios into your mass communication plan is another ideal method for increasing redundancy.
By leveraging existing devices, you’ll create a multilayered, cost-effective military mass notification system powerful enough to reach everyone when it matters the most — no matter where they’re located.
4. Targeted Alerts
Targeted alerting is crucial for getting your message to the right people. Not every emergency or announcement will impact the entire military facility — and some notifications may even be too sensitive to broadcast to everyone.
With VoIP phone notifications, you have the flexibility to target one specific building, multiple buildings, or a designated group of people. For example, Alertus’ Cisco VoIP phone integration manages alerts by desk phone extension numbers, device pools, and descriptor tags. Targeted alert capability is especially useful for large military operations spread across multiple facilities or geographical locations.
An effective crisis communication plan for military applications doesn’t have to be as complicated or costly as you may think. Start maximizing your VoIP phone investment for rapid, redundant, and seamless on-premise alerting.
To learn more about how VoIP phone notification can benefit your military facility, check out our on-demand webinar: Unlock The Notification Power of Your VoIP Phone System with Alertus.