MIR3 unveils campus emergency notification system
The Virginia Tech tragedy highlights the importance of disseminating emergency alerts to thousands of recipients simultaneously, and do so to many different communication devices; MIR3 offers a solution
The timing may be accidental, but San Diego, California-based MIR3 late last week unveiled a solution for emergency notifications aimed at acadmeic campuses. The company iIncluded in the product its new topic subscription capability, which allows students and staff to opt-in for different types of events such as weather alerts, class announcements, criminal activity warnings, and health notices. The company says that its Intelligent Notification v2.8 can handle the requirements of student and staff groups of any magnitude.
The company already offers alert system to large companies. “We support numerous Fortune 50 companies on a global scale,” said Dan Long, CTO at MIR3. “We can bring a college campus on-line in less than a day.”
MIR3’s inCampusAlert is based on the company’s enterprise-grade technology aims to bridge the gap between standard forms of communication to allow high-speed two-way communications to tens of thousands of users and devices simultaneously. The system supports practically all means of communication — including email, wireless pager, PDA, text messaging, landline, mobile phone, satellite phone, TDD/TTY, fax, and two-way SMS. The system may be used not only for emergency, but for more benign high-volume messaging and all-purpose broadcasting, such as administrative notices to employees, messages for coordinating staffing and schedules, and delivering important, auditable information to customers.
We note that MIR3’s customers include large petroleum, soft-drink bottling, and consumer goods companies, IAC Interactive, Belkin Worldwide, the U.S. Air Force, DHS’s National Medical Response Teams, the Red Cross, and more. Orange County, California, for example, has 1.4 million recipients loaded in their MIR3 Intelligent Notification system.
