Metis Secure, a competitor in the 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program, is seeing an surge of deployments across the nation in K-12 Schools, Colleges and Universities.
On February 14th, when a former student armed with an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle opened fire indiscriminately at students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL, school safety became one of the top national issues in the United States.
However, according to Wikipedia, in just the last year there have been 34 reported school shootings, resulting in a total of 50 deaths and 95 injuries.
And this does not include non-firearm related emergencies.In an emergency, speed can save lives.
That is why campuses across America are deploying proven solutions to respond more quickly and effectively in the event of an emergency, regardless of the nature.
Whether you are protecting entire districts, school campuses, or individual school buildings, Metis Secure delivers emergency notification, communications, and management systems to help staff and authorities, and save lives.
With Metis Secure you can
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Establish a hotline to the police station–arm teachers and administrators with discreet mobile and IP panic solutions that instantly alert police when activated.
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Dispatchers see the precise panic location on Metis Secure’s on-screen GIS maps and building floor plans.
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Set the Metis Secure system to simultaneously alert on-site School Resource Officers, principals, district officials, or anyone else who needs to know when and where a panic button is triggered.
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Tie in your video camera system–when a panic button activation comes in, live video from the trouble spot automatically pops up for police dispatchers.
- And, integrate existing access control systems for automatic lockdowns, if desired.
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Integrate the Metis Secure system with existing school PA systems, computer screens, IP phones, and digital signs.
- This gives you the power to instantly broadcast emergency directives throughout a school building, school campus, or entire district in a crisis.
- And, you can launch an alert from anywhere, via any authorized computer browser or mobile device.
Metis Secure Solutions delivers software and hardware products that help you protect your people, facilities, and assets when an emergency strikes.
Metis Secure Command Center software enables control, integration, and automation of emergency communications, life safety, and security systems at your facility or campus from on or off site, via internet browser or mobile device.
(See a brief introduction of Metis Secure System and Call Boxes to see how Metis Secure works in buildings, schools, hospitals, college and corporate campuses, universities and more. Courtesy of Metis Secure and YouTube.)
When integrated with your site’s existing communications devices – such as IP phones, digital signs, computer screens, and PA speakers – the Command Center acts as the hub for your Emergency Communications Information Management (E-CIM) system.
MS-5100 and MS-6100 indoor and outdoor Emergency Help Stations provide a fast and effective communication link to strategic site locations, to enable you to broadcast multi-modal emergency alerts—including voice directives, flashing lights, sirens, and text on the built-in LCD screen.
They also provide built-in, inbound help call functionality – via two-way, hands-free, live voice—between people in need and security personnel or police.
Each Help Station is battery-backed and acts as an independent wireless network node, forming a redundant communications and power network that helps ensure that the system still works even if phone, power, and internet fail in a crisis.
For those who need a discreet way to signal for help, Metis Secure offers a line of software and hardware-based panic buttons, plus a mobile panic app.
Metis Secure software and hardware easily integrate with both network and analog security and life safety systems—including access control, IP video, handheld radios and mobile phones, hazardous materials and other sensors.
The Metis Secure system is built to tie together security and life safety systems and leverage your previous investments.
The Metis Secure Command Center integrates with video, access control, handheld radios, gas detectors, IP phones, outdoor loudspeakers, email/text alert services, and other security and life safety systems.
Metis Secure delivers emergency notification, communications, and management systems that help you respond much more quickly and effectively in an emergency.
Metis Secure has partnered with Desktop Alert Inc. to provide a new comprehensive approach to enhance both security and response during an emergent event.
With active shooter incidents on the rise, security preparedness training integrated with the right security technology can be life-saving.
“Metis Secures’ technology insures less than 10 second alerting to all emergency command centers,” said Howard Ryan, Founder Desktop Alert Inc.
“Beacon alert technology with limited LED text message screens and text-to-speech speakers without bi-directional real-time voice is limited in an active emergency.”“When lives are at stake, seconds count. Common area alerting for personal safety requires instant two way LIVE voice capability. It is a must.”
“Reading an alert is one thing, communicating by voice during an active emergency is a must.”
“Our family of alerting systems now provides this fabulous common area alerting end-point solution.”
(Hear from Howard Ryan, Metis Secure Solution – Always Online. Founder, Desktop Alert Inc.)
Metis Secure is a industry pioneer in network-based in-building two-way live voice alerting solutions and continues to be on the forefront of developing unique, innovative solutions that harness the power of IP-Based and wireless technology.
Metis Secure develops advanced emergency communications and notification systems that help organizations respond to emergencies much more rapidly and effectively.
Metis Secure “Call for Help” Boxes
In an emergency, a user pushes a button to automatically send a call for help to police.
Police can instantly isolate the location of the call on a computer and send an officer to an exact location.
The boxes can also be used to push out messages to the building occupants.
Metis Secure users include manufacturing and research facilities, universities and schools, commercial office buildings, large parking garages, and others.
In a crisis, fast, effective emergency communications can make the difference between a relatively contained event and a major catastrophe that includes multiple injuries or loss of life, destruction of assets, and a public relations disaster.
Metis Secure at a Glance
Metis Secure is a Desktop Alert brand that develops advanced emergency communications and notification systems that help organizations respond to emergencies much more rapidly and effectively.
Metis Secure users include manufacturing and research facilities, universities and schools, commercial office buildings, large parking garages, and others.
In a crisis, fast, effective emergency communications can make the difference between a relatively contained event and a major catastrophe that includes multiple injuries or loss of life, destruction of assets, and a public relations disaster.
Metis Secure products include control and integration software, notification and communication hardware, and redundant networks including independent wireless mesh.
Organizations use their Metis Secure systems to broadcast targeted, actionable emergency alerts and instructions to everyone at the site of an emergency, in seconds—even if power, cell networks, and internet are down.
Furthermore, people in need use the system to immediately reach help, and transmit their locations to responders automatically.
The Metis Secure platform easily integrates other life safety and security systems and automates key emergency communications and management functions, substantially improving an organization’s emergency response.
Metis Secure delivers emergency notification, communications, and management systems that help you respond much more quickly and effectively in an emergency.
Metis Secure Competes in 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program
AST focuses on Homeland Security and Public Safety Breaking News, the Newest Initiatives and Hottest Technologies in Physical & IT Security, essential to meeting today’s growing security challenges.
The 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program, is organized to recognize the most distinguished vendors of Physical, IT, Port Security, Law Enforcement, Border Security, First Responders, (Fire, EMT, Military, Support Services Vets, SBA, Medical Tech) as well as the Federal, State, County and Municipal Government Agencies – to acknowledge their outstanding efforts to ‘Keep our Nation Secure, One City at a Time.’
As an ‘ASTORS’ competitor, Metis Secure will be competing against the industry’s leading providers of Innovative Indoor Emergency Help Station/Technology.
To Learn More about the ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards Program, see 2017 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Award Winners Honored at ISC East.
Over 100 distinguished guests from National, State and Local Governments, and Industry Leading Corporate Executives from companies allied to Government, gathered from across North America and the Middle East to be honored from disciplines across the Security Industry in their respective fields which included:
- The Department of Homeland Security(DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T)
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- The Department of Justice
- The Security Exchange Commission
- State and Municipal Law Enforcement Agencies
- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police
- Leaders in Private Security
Last Call for the 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Homeland Security Awards at https://americansecuritytoday.com/ast-awards/.
The highlight of the 2018 AST Homeland Security Awards Season will be the 2018 ‘ASTORS’ Awards Presentation Luncheon to honor Nominees, Finalists and Winners on November 14, 2018 at ISC East 2018 at the Jacob Javits Exhibition Center.
Join us in Recognizing these Industry-Leading Firms for their Outstanding Product Development Achievements, Exciting New Technologies and Innovative Education Programs to address the growing Homeland Security Threats our Nation is facing.
Take advantage of this exclusive luncheon opportunity to Invite your Guests, Clients and Show Visitors to a lovely & affordableplated meal event in the heart of New York City, for a Fabulous Networking Opportunity!
ISC East is the Northeast’s largest security industry event and your ‘ASTORS’ Awards Luncheon registration includes complimentary attendee access to the show.
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