Some things you pay for, with the hope of never using. In the personal realm, various types of home and life insurance fall into this category. In the business world, it’s emergency preparedness. When disaster strikes, having the right systems in place to notify every building occupant of the situation and direct them to a safe location can save lives. While you might never need to implement it in practice, and we hope you never do, developing an emergency response plan is a small price to pay for the security and protection of your clients and employees. Here are three.

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Anyone who has ever had a flat tire knows it’s always a good thing to have a spare. If your picnic gets rained out it’s always good to have a backup plan.  The same philosophy applies to emergency notification. When a critical system such as paging, which is what we will focus on here, has a major component that fails it directly impacts the safety of everyone intended to be notified. You need a backup to ensure that any message still reaches the intended audience. There are certain levels of redundancy emergency notification systems can have depending on how robust.

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For paging systems, having the title of “emergency” to describe its type, indicates the importance of its operation. Unfortunate things do happen to electronics and wiring. Natural disasters, construction, prolonged power outages, as well as plain old age will eventually take its toll on even the most robust systems. It becomes a safety concern when these systems are not working or are only partially working. Remote monitoring can help notify people about potential problems and help correct deficiencies in an emergency paging system hopefully before an emergency event occurs. How remote are we talking about? In some cases, the word,.

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Mass notification, paging, and public address systems are used to notify workers, guests or other occupants of a building or an area of pertinent announcements and/or dangerous situations. Speaker systems, visual notification and even telecommunications devices can be incorporated into a mass notification plan for a space. The important factor is getting the message to the correct audience in a quick and clear manner in order to avoid chaos and save lives. Scenarios involving the usage of these systems can range from general announcements, severe weather alerts to active shooter emergencies, with the messages delivered being tailored for the situation.

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Web based video conferencing was designed to be easy. Turn on the laptop or pick up the smartphone, make sure there is internet access, open the calendar app, go to the calendar event, and click the “Join Meeting” button. The device starts up the needed application, asks you what camera and audio devices you are using, and just like that, the meeting starts up with audio and video. The audio, video, and even the content intended to be shared at the meeting is integrated and accessible by a single device. As discussed in previous installations of this article, in larger.

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Back in my early days of college there would be those classes that were requirements for all the freshmen. You would inevitably find yourself in a big hall of perhaps a hundred other students. In those days (and I am dating myself here) you were straining to hear a professor who had no microphone. Fortunately, that scenario is mostly a thing of the past. Lecture halls have, for the most part, microphones and speakers to help the teachers convey their message more clearly. What is a newer phenomenon is that not all class attendees are there in person. The proliferation.

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In your typical online meeting, you sit down in front of an open laptop. The camera and a microphone are pretty close and pointed right at you. In fact, it’s about the best setup you can get – the other folks in the meeting can see and hear you fairly well. Now imagine setting that laptop at the end of long board room table or, even worse, at the front of a training room and trying to see and hear everyone in the room from just that little built-in microphone and camera. Anyone watching remotely would quickly get frustrated trying.

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So, you’ve got a camera (or multiple), maybe some presentation inputs and a data link between your locations. Now, you’ve got to get this information up for viewing. There are myriad display options for flat panel monitors and projection systems, but which one suits your environment? That’s a loaded question! There are lots of things to consider when choosing the right display technology for your project. Room Size: Room size drives the overall display size. The viewers in the room will need to be able to view the content (whether local or far-end) comfortably. For an example, a ‘huddle room’.

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It is always a fun experience to stand on a large hillside or canyon and yell a single word at the top of your voice to hear it come back to you a second later. We call this an echo, but what is really happening? Sound travels, or propagates, through air at about 340 meters per second (1115 feet per second). If you are yelling toward an object that is about 500 feet away and the surface is hard enough to reflect the sound back to you, you will hear it about a second after you initially yelled. Understanding this.

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Over the last year most of us have become quite accustomed to attending online meetings with video. Usually these have involved multiple attendees signing in on their devices and using the device’s built-in camera. This type of video conferencing system requires virtually no control of the camera by the user. Many of us have also attended other streaming events where there were multiple cameras in operation, such as church services or large conferences. The systems that handle this type of video control and switching are vastly more complicated than what we have experienced on our home systems in many ways..

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