Industry Solutions

Emergency Notification for Physical Security and Public Safety

AtHoc is a pioneer and recognized leader in network-centric emergency mass notification systems. AtHoc provides military, homeland security, government, and commercial organizations with solutions for:

• Physical security
• Force protection
• Personnel accountability
• Recall
• Regulatory compliance

Millions of end users worldwide rely on AtHoc's unified management systems for their emergency alerting needs. These organizations include:

• U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, and Coast Guard
• Texas A&M University
• University of California, Los Angeles
• Microsoft
• Boeing
• Raytheon

Critical events can happen in an instant. It is an enormous challenge to rapidly alert thousands of geographically dispersed individuals through multiple communication channels to deliver situational information and instructions.

Meeting the Emergency Notification Challenge

AtHoc's innovative approach turns the IP network and connected devices into an emergency notification system. By deploying a single, centralized, web-based system that unifies multiple alerting channels (telephony alerting, Giant Voice Emergency Management System, etc.), organizations can:

• Provide detailed instructions to all personnel within minutes
• Receive feedback to help ensure a safe response

AtHoc systems meet regulatory requirements and include other benefits such as:

• Faster, safer, and more cost-effective response in times of emergency
• Increased effectiveness in reaching geographically dispersed personnel, and in less time
• Increased personnel accountability with logged recipient responses and acknowledgments
• Quick deployment and easy web-based administration
• High security, scalability, and redundancy

The centralized approach of the AtHoc system also:

• Eliminates the need to manage, control, and trigger alerts from multiple independent systems
• Reduces infrastructure and support costs
• Increases data confidentiality and network security

Certain AtHoc products now fully integrate with Cisco Unified Communications Manager to:

• Send audiovisual alerts to Cisco IP Phone displays
• Send voice telephony alerts to Cisco IP Phones and public switched telephone network (PSTN) lines
• Capture responses from any Unified Communications Manager connected phone