Posts Tagged ‘Emergency’

• Curbing False Alarms

  • May 27th, 2011
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  False alarms may not seem like a big deal. After all, a false alarm is better than an actual break in, right? Well yes and no. This article from SecuritySales.com explains just how disruptive false alarms can be. Of course… Read More

• Convergence in fire alarm technology

  • May 18th, 2011
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  • Tags: ARK Systems, Convergence, Convergence in fire alarm technology, Cost of POTS, Emergency, emergency response, Fire Alarm, Fire Alarm technology, Greater coordination required, Internet Protocol, IP, IP communicators, IP fire alarm communicators, IT infrastructure, Maryland, mass notification emergency communication, National Fire Protection Association's National Fire Alarm Code, NFPA 72, plain old telephone system, Potential savings, POTS, Power backup for IT components, primary means of communicating, primary means of communication, receiving station, Reduce operating costs, Remote diagnostics, Save money, Savings, secondary means of communication, secure facilities, security, security personnel, security systems, Service Calls, Technology, Understand IT standards and practices

  As the security industry quickly adopted the use of IT infrastructure and systems into its physical security, the fire alarm industry was much slower to grab on to the new concept of “convergence.” Code changes to the 2007 National Fire… Read More

• DHS Outlines Its New Emergency Communications Plan

  • April 1st, 2011
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  • Tags: 9/11, ARK Systems, Chris Essid, city, Communication, cooperative efforts, county, Date communication Maryland, department, DHS Outlines Its New Emergency Communications Plan, Emergency, emergency communication, emergency cummincation, Emergency protocol, EMS, EMT, fire department, first responders, IWCE, IWCE 2011, Las Vegas, Maryland, mass notification emergency communication, National emergency, national emergency communication, National Emergency Communications Plan, Office of Emergency Communications, operate, Plan, police, police department, process, proposal, protocol, state, terrorist attack, tradeshow

  At the IWCE 2011 tradeshow in Las Vegas, DHS Director of the Office of Emergency Communications (OEC) Chris Essid estimated that 3 million people in the U.S. could be considered first responders. But what good is such an elaborate emergency… Read More

• CMAS: The End of SMS Text Alerting as We Know It?

  • March 18th, 2011
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  • Tags: ARK Systems, Broadcast technology, Campuses SMS, CMAS, Emergency, End of SMS texting, Inc., prioritized database, SMS Text Alerting, Texting Maryland

  The Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS) will be available in 2012, but it will come with some limitations. According to this article, campuses and other institutions use SMS messaging to get alerts out now, yet this could change. Campuses have… Read More