By Stephanie Osorno, Marketing Copywriter at Alertus Technologies

How do you communicate with your outdoor population? Are you able to quickly reach your target audience for emergencies and important announcements? 

Rapid crisis communication is essential to minimize operational disruption and ensure everyone’s safety. However, successful communication can be challenging for organizations with facilities that have a large outdoor footprint, and a large mobile population, such as the branches of the Department of Defense. 

Fortunately, the evolution of Mass Notification System (MNS) technology has improved the ways an organization can communicate, even within a large outdoor footprint. In this blog, we explore a variety of innovative communication solutions for a DoD environment. 

Giant Voice Systems for Rapid Outdoor Alerting 

Every second counts when it comes to an unpredictable, potentially life-threatening situation. Thus, your emergency activation process should be quick, efficient, and seamless. Keep in mind that your emergency notifications will also need to be as intelligible and informative as possible to elicit an immediate response. 

Implementing a giant outdoor voice system can help you rapidly spread awareness and disseminate critical information to your entire  DoD personnel. The Alertus High Power Speaker Arrays (HPSA), for example, instantly send out clear outdoor voice messages using audible siren tones and industry leading text-to-speech (TTS) technology. And now, Alertus’ newest Mobile High Power Speaker Array (HPSA) offers those same alerting capabilities — with the added bonus of functioning on a mobile trailer.  

The mobile HPSA is designed to be pulled with a standard trailer hitch to your desired communication area and set up by one person within 15 minutes after arriving on scene. If you’re not able to have a crew of people on site at your facility at the time, the mobile HPSA can easily be set up and operated by one essential government personnel member. 

With no installation required and minimal technical experience needed, the Alertus Mobile HPSA offers a simple solution for quickly communicating about severe weather events, intruder incidents, fires, COVID-19 updates, and more.

Mobile Alerting 

A mobile push notification is a practical way to send a secure alert within a matter of seconds. If needed, you can also activate your entire notification system directly on the mobile device, creating a single point of activation at your fingertips. 

The Alertus Mobile App Suite enhances mobile notification between authorized dispatchers and end users. It includes the Alertus Activator App and the Alertus Recipient App. 

• With the Alertus Activator App, authorized department dispatchers can quickly activate and send emergency notification alerts to designated government personnel via Android/iOS tablets or smartphones. These alerts can be planned ahead of time with preset emergency templates and edited on the fly to fit the specific emergency. 

• The Alertus Recipient App allows DoD personnel to not only receive push notifications, but also to quickly send geo-tagged incident reports to emergency management personnel via the incident reporting feature. 

With mobile alerting, you’ll be able to reach your intended audience even when they’re away from the facility. 

Instant Public Address System

Setting up a public address system doesn’t need to involve electrical wiring and amplified line audio, especially with a time-sensitive alert on the line. The Alertus IP Text-to-Speech (TTS) Speaker provides a standalone, highly intelligible indoor IP text-to-speech speaker for audible alerting using just an Ethernet connection.

Most recently, Alertus developed a new WiFi-based IP Text-to-Speech Speaker for rapid indoor and outdoor communication using just a WiFi connection.

If your facility already has an existing PA or IP speaker system in place, the Alertus IP TTS Interface can leverage those existing resources for unified mass notification from a single activation source. 

Learn more about Alertus’ innovative and reliable mass notification solutions for government facilities here.