Aquis Communications Intros UnityAlert Emergency Mass Notification System

Aquis Communications, a subsidiary of ComSoft Corp., has announced the launch of its UnityAlert Emergency Mass Notification System. 

A multimodal, mass notification system, UnityAlert incorporates multi-sensory wireless equipment and comprehensive notification architecture. It has been designed to provide reliable time critical emergency notification messaging, alarms and voice commands to any environment or geographical area, said company officials.

Company officials said that the system can accommodate larger public areas, and also smaller areas such as classrooms, stairwells, dormitory rooms and offices. Additionally, the UnityAlert system may also be used for informational messages such as weather, events or schedule changes. Moreover, the software can also send instant messages to viral community forums such as MSN, AOL (News - Alert), Yahoo, Twitter and Facebook.

Brian Bobeck, president at Aquis, said that UnityAlert was developed due to shortfalls in existing mass notification systems. “We expanded the ways in which constituents in a campus environment can be notified.”

Along with SMS text, E-mail, cell phone, landline and other traditional means of communication, UnityAlert also offers wireless point-to-multi-point information dissemination delivered to a variety of multi-sensory wireless devices.

Bobeck said that many schools, universities and healthcare institutions have relied on systems utilizing SMS Text and e-mail as their sole or main delivery mechanism.

However, transient students, congested cellular networks, SMS text delays, and also coverage issues have made this notification method unreliable when used as the sole method of notification, Boeck said.

He said that UnityAlert system will notify cell phones, SMS text, pagers, land line phones, E-mail, fax and community based applications such as Facebook (News - Alert) and Twitter. Plus, UnityAlert will also allow any “entity to take more responsibility in ensuring a safe environment by supplying strategically located equipment throughout their facilities.”

Boeck said that campus visitors and other members of the public will receive notification regardless of their personal communication devices and regardless if they registered with the system or campus.' 

Already, systems have been deployed by Centre College in Danville, Ky.; Pikeville College and Pike County 911 in Pikeville, Ky.; Portsmouth City Schools in Portsmouth, Ohio and a number of government institutions.

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