Emergency Notification

The CISCOR two way radio interface effectively duplicates all security desk functions thus eliminating the need to position a staff person at the security desk.

A roving security person can be making rounds, performing maintenance, or responding to alarms and still have all security desk functions available. This will greatly reduce labor cost for the facility resulting in tens of thousands of dollars saved annually... and this savings goes on year after year after year.

Even a portable video monitor displaying the output of the CCTV system can be carried by staff. In addition to two way radio dispatch, alarms can be sent to telephones, on site paging systems, wide area subscription pagers, fax, email and digital receivers.

From a hand held two way radio staff can:

• Receive announcements of all alarms and events via a computer generated voice message.
• Acknowledge an alarm event by entering a personal staff ID number into a hand held two way radio.
• Answer the telephone or place a telephone call.
• Talk to intercom stations and then release a door lock or open a parking gate.
• Last Alarm Auto Dial commands the computer to look up the phone number of the last location (e.g. an apartment) to send in an emergency alarm, automatically dial the number and then patch the call through to the hand held two way radio.
• Control equipment - turn lights on or off, start and stop pumps - applications are endless.
• Log events and tasks accomplished such as guard tour or housekeeping services.

Existing third party systems such as fire alarm systems, burglar alarm panels, and HVAC control and alarm systems can be funneled through the CISCOR computer to provide annunciation of alarms and events over hand held two way radios. Pagers are also supported.

Partitioning

Computer generated voice announcements may be sent to a selected group of radios if desired so that only designated staff personnel will hear the message. Also, voice announcements may be channeled to as many as 6 different radio groups.

High Security

Various methods are available for securing the radio transmissions. These include scrambling, which makes the voice messages unintelligible to outside listeners and ANI (Automatic Number Identification) which causes the radios to disregard any DTMF codes that do not come from your own radios. For most radios, these methods require a simple radio programming change.

Radios, Telephones, and Pagers

To decide which of these is best suited for your application, read a comparison of their features.