Mass Notification, Paging, Public Address and Supervised Radio

Mass Notification Systems, Paging, and Public address systems warn building or area occupants of dangerous situations ranging from fire to violent emergency scenarios. Outdoor and indoor speaker arrays, dynamic signage, text messaging, social media, and email are utilized to communicate important information that could save lives.

Further, IntraWorks offers advanced supervised paging and radio systems that can automate check in delivery and service processes, provide emergency notification, and direct crowds.

IntraWorks designs, installs, and services Public Address, Paging, and supervised Radio systems for a wide variety of client facilities to include: Higher education, K1 – K12, hospitals, government organizations, office buildings, prisons, auditoriums, places of worship, stadiums, amusement parks, outdoor environments, areas of assembly and much more.

Mass Notification and Paging systems audibly announce messages to occupants of a building or outdoor areas utilizing microphones and speakers. Paging systems can be zoned so that only certain areas are paged accordingly. Supervised wired paging systems and wireless supervised radios can also function to notify persons, but may be additionally utilized in an emergency for evacuation or shelter.

Paging systems in schools and areas of assembly are now being utilized to evacuate the building or use the building for shelter depending on an emergency event such as a weather event or a violent situation. Since these systems are being utilized for life safety, they must have electronic supervision. In other words, if the system malfunctions, it must send an alarm to another system that reports the problem. An example of a malfunction might be a missing speaker or burnt out power supply. This electronic supervisory function is is similar to a fire alarm system. These new supervised paging systems or mass notification systems also generate text for signage and mobile phone text messaging.

These special purpose built phones are much more than a wireless phone. They have functions that will play pre-recorded messages, text, integrate with accounting systems, building automation systems, climate control systems, alarm systems, door systems, and more in order to provide information and the ability to communicate quickly and discretely. These phones integrate with background and paging systems and emergency notification systems to inform occupants of danger or to control situations that can move such as crowds or mobs.

Supervised Communication systems are able to integrate with multiple systems to provide superior awareness to the occupants of a building. When an event occurs, other systems can take over the communication system and make announcements. This can be an automatic or manual announcement based on the situation. Purpose built wireless phones can also be integrated to almost any brand or type of building system.

IntraWorks is very experienced at providing background sound and paging systems. We are proud to represent: Valcom and Valcom Engineered Systems, Bogen paging, ASCOM Myco Wireless Phones, Klipsch speakers, Bose Speakers, Edwards Outdoor Voice speaker arrays and many more.

Supervised communication systems should be tested monthly or at least quarterly in case supervisory signals were not received or ignored. IntraWorks can test most brands of communication systems. Our communication system technicians can perform tests according to client standards and certify the health of any system. Since supervised communication systems are critical, IntraWorks provides fast and reliable priority response when the system is put under a smart service agreement.