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InformaCast Fusion is a mass notification system that excels in the three most critical
areas of delivering effective emergency messages: speed, reach and intrusiveness.

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THE INFORMACAST EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM –

InformaCast Fusion is a mass notification system that excels in the three most critical areas of delivering effective emergency messages: speed, reach and intrusiveness. When you need people to take notice and take action, the InformaCast emergency alert system provides the toolset to get information in the hands of people who need it as quickly as possible no matter where they are or what they are doing.

Unparalleled Speed

You can’t waste a second when an emergency occurs. InformaCast Fusion offers multiple ways to instantly trigger a notification so that the instant someone notices an issue, they can begin alerting people.

Expansive Reach

During a crisis, you need to know your message is going to reach everyone. InformaCast Fusion uses every communication channel available to ensure no misses a message.

Attention-Grabbing Alerts

Cut through noise and distractions with text, audio and visual notifications delivered to mobile devices and throughout your facilities. The result: people notice alerts sooner and begin taking action, reducing risk and downtime.

INSTANT ALERTING 

Trigger notifications the moment an incident occurs

InformaCast Fusion is a mass notification system that excels in the three most critical areas of delivering effective emergency messages: speed, reach and intrusiveness. When you need people to take notice and take action, the InformaCast emergency alert system provides the toolset to get information in the hands of people who need it as quickly as possible no matter where they are or what they are doing.

Instant-alerting

Detection​

  • 911 alerting (CallAware)
  • Building sensor integration
  • Panic buttons (Duress Package)

Notification

  • Bell scheduling, paging, announcements
  • Desktop, digital signage, phones and more
  • Mobile notifications

Management

  • Scenario planning, access control, lockdown
  • Conference call/virtual collaboration
  • Reporting
 

Visitor Management

  • Screen visitors and volunteers before granting them access
  • Maintain digital records of visitors and volunteers
  • Track student tardies with digital records
  • Release students to authorised guardians​

Student Management

  • Account for students during a crisis
  • Reunite students with guardians easily following an incident
  • Submit tips about potential school threats
  • Streamline the carpool line pickup process​

Duress Solutions

5 Panic Button Options

  • Wearables
  • Mobile app
  • Keyboard shortcuts
  • Desk phone keys
  • Mounted devices

Request Immediate Assistance

  • Delivers name and location information to response teams

Activate Alerts

  • Send text and audio to existing devices
  • Direct contact to the PSAP also available



Safety Drill Manager

  • Schedule and assign drills across your district
  • Monitor compliance and drill completion
  • Maintain digital records to demonstrate compliance
  • Record student location information for streamlined reunification​

Bus Manager

  • Verify students get on the correct bus
  • Notify guardians and school officials that students are on the correct bus
  • Use GPS to track bus and student locations in real-time
  • Know when students have gotten off the bus​​

Send alerts from anywhere

Launch notifications instantly from a virtual or physical panic button, the InformaCast Mobile, or web console.

Automated triggers

Receive automated weather alerts, early earthquake warnings, gunshot detection, and Internet of Things triggers. Using a variety of methods, including RSS feeds, CAP feeds and email, automatically trigger alerts when predetermined criteria are met.

customise your environment

With InformaCast Fusion’s open API and contact closure integrations to the physical environment, leverage the IoT to trigger alerts from devices like AED cabinets, eyewash stations and more.

Improve daily procedures

Create more efficient communications for non-emergency use cases with scheduled messages to broadcast school bells, shift changes, and other daily announcements.

REACHING EVERYONE 

InformaCast Fusion offers the best chance of reaching your desired audience with critical notifications

Leverage every channel

  • utilising all your on-premises and mobile devices means it’s more likely you’ll reach everyone rather than relying solely on mass SMS text messages.

 

  • InformaCast mass notifications can be sent as live and recorded audio to speakers and phones and text can be sent to a desktop computer, deskphone displays, and digital signage.
 
  • Mobile alerts from InformaCast can be delivered as SMS text, push notification, email and/or recorded audio.

 

  • Connected devices can trigger visual alerts like flashing strobe lights, digital displays and scrolling text.

Alert beyond your organisation

  • Have visitors self-enrol to receive notifications simply by texting a designated number.

 

  • FEMA-approved organisations can also leverage the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System to have InformaCast notifications broadcast to cell phones within a geographical area and local TV stations.

Trigger Message

Message Target

INCIDENT MANAGEMENT 

Plan, execute and manage your response with the InformaCast emergency alert system

Simple notification with command centre

  • Take advantage of InformaCast Command centre to quickly send alerts for common scenarios.
  • customise easy-to-identify buttons for different situations and provide relevant details about what’s happening.
  • Available within InformaCast Fusion and on the InformaCast Mobile app
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Know who’s safe and who needs help

  • Send notifications that ask for a response to gain real-time insights into who is safe and who needs help.
  • utilise dynamic replies to send relevant follow up messages based on someone’s response.

 

Collaborate Virtually

  • Quickly gather key stakeholders in Microsoft Teams, Webex or on a conference call to assess the situation and deploy assistance.

 

Compatible Systems

InformaCast Fusion works with other communication tools to deliver more effective notifications. Compatible systems include:

  • Collaboration tools (Microsoft Teams, Webex)
  • Unified Communications and VOIP (Cisco, Poly)

REPORTING –

Understand the effectiveness of your notifications

Know who received and read messages

View reports that show whether your notification was delivered successfully and who read it once it was received.

Review notification results

analyse notification results to understand how long it took notifications to be sent to different devices and users.

Plan for the future

Receive actionable insights to make adjustments for future incidents.

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE, SCALE AND SECURITY 

Build confidence and trust deploying a solution that will work when it matters most

Reliable no matter what

Have peace of mind that your notifications will reach your audience during critical situations.

InformaCast Fusion uses a hybrid-cloud architecture where the “brains” are in the cloud and the Fusion Server Appliance resides on your network.

High Availability includes Fusion Failover for data centre resiliency, Survivable Remote Site Notification to provide functionality should your WAN connexion fail, and Distributed Activation to spread the notification workload across multiple InformaCast Fusion Servers.