PC based Alerting/Evacuation

When defining emergency and evacuation strategies, it is essential to consider effective means for communicating the threat as quick as possible to all persons currently located in the endangered building or area. Especially the ever growing number of PC based jobs calls for an extension of the previous concepts. In addition to acoustic alerts, it is vitally important to effectively push the alert directly to each user's individual PC screen as well. This is even more important, when it comes to silent alerts!

Cordaware bestinformed^® currently offers the quickest method of sending instant alerts directly to any number of PCs and in various formats. Next to the highly targetable distribution of information on threat and evacuation, it is also possible to instantly lock all screens, all at once!

Automation / OPC

For automating the alert-process, the bestinformed interface MailToInfo is used. Incoming emails from alarm-systems, such as fire monotoring systems, are instantly transformed into screen alerts and are distributed to thousands of users within a few seconds. The email-alert is sent either directly from the alert-system or from an OPC-Client. The majority of currently used professional alarm- and security-systems offer an OPC-Server for providing the events platform independently.

Therefore, Cordaware's bestinformed instant-alerting supports all devices for which an OPC-Server is available.

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