Emergency alerts in higher education have become commonplace on campuses of every size, but message delays during dangerous weather or security emergencies have raised alarm at some schools.
In February, officials from IntelliGuard Systems, which provides campus communities with a keychain that rings when it receives an emergency message, said it avoids delays by sending thousands of messages over a private wireless network.
Instead of connecting to a myriad of mobile devices – all with different internet protocol addresses – the company’s RavenAlert system sends the college’s alert to thousands of keychains with the same address.
And the message is usually received in less than 20 seconds, said Roy Pottle, chairman and CEO of Intelliguard Systems.
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