DMI: Emergency Alert and Notification News, Emergency Notification Center

Dial Me In Announces On Premise Emergency Alert and Notification System
After years of research and development, DMI introduces the Voice Broadcaster Pro” a unique Instant Emergency Voice communication protocol system that allows Police and Fire Departments, Colleges and Schools, Government Agencies, Community Groups, Businesses and Nonprofit Organizations to send instant, Voice Emergency, Advisory Alerts, or Day to Day Notifications to a virtually unlimited amount of recipients via cell and land line phones within minutes.

Can your Campus Emergency Alert System perform these tasks?
Here are 10 questions that all Campuses need to ask concerning their Emergency Alert System. Do Authorized Users of your Alert System have the ability to:

Informational Articles

DMI: Offer two types of Emergency Alert Platforms
1. Hosted Solution
2. On-Premise Solution

Important Information:

Defining an Emergency:
An emergency is a situation which poses an immediate risk to health, life, property or environment.
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Developing an Emergency Preparedness Plan:
To protect employees from fire and other emergencies and to prevent property loss, whether large or small, companies use preparedness plans (also called pre-fire plans or pre-incident plans).
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Managing an Emergency:
There are many protocols which many emergency services use in dealing with an emergency, which usually start with planning before an emergency occurs.
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What Is SIP (Session Initiation Protocol):
The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a signaling protocol used for establishing sessions in an IP network.
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Industry News

Missed or Late Emergency Alerts – No Excuse for This!
The following articles represent a collection of Missed or Late Text Message Emergency Alerts. Dial Me In does not suggest (SMS) text messaging as a primary solution for Emergency Alert and Mass Notification. Dial Me In Emergency Alert and Notification platforms sends an instant Voice Message to Cell Phones, Land Line Phones, Emergency Speaker Phone Boxes, etc.

Kinks remain in campus text message alert system
The campus went on lock down Monday after an active shooter was reported at the nearby Cox hospital campus. Safety and Security notified the campus of the threat via e-mail within minutes of the report, but failed to send a text message alert. Many students were confused why only e-mails were sent.

Questions Abound as Campus Emergency Alert Flops.
One researcher who specializes in mass-communications systems warns that the use of text messaging to alert students of danger could bog down cellular networks and block phone calls from students or faculty members trying to contact local authorities, but industry experts and many higher-education officials insist there are ways to reliably send thousands of warning messages without interference.

Virginia Tech's Text-Message Alert System Partly Failed During False Alarm
A report of what sounded like gunshots prompted Virginia Tech to use its text-message emergency-alert system on Thursday for the first time, but the system failed to deliver all of the messages.

Do Emergency Text Messaging Systems Put Students in More Danger?
The rush to use text messaging as an emergency notification system fails to consider the weaknesses and potential hazards of this solution.

Emergency text messages failed students
A male student was mugged on campus outside the Student Center, Monday night. But students were left unaware until Tuesday at 8:52 a.m., when they were informed via email. The heavily promoted and administration-backed e2Campus emergency messaging system failed to alert students of a potential threat on campus. e2Campus alerts subscribers via text message and/or email.

Officials Taking Second Look at Campus Communications in Wake of Situation
But the question is, did communication at Western Kentucky University fail? After school officials received reports of armed gunmen on campus, thousands of text messages were sent to students and faculty warning them to seek shelter.

Text Alert System Found Flawed in First University Wide Test
University-wide test of the University of South Carolina's emergency text-messaging system Wednesday failed to reach everyone on campus as quickly as administrators had hoped.

A School Shooting, a Failed Fast-Response System, and JuicyCampus.com
Last night at about 9:50 pm PST, 7-8 gunshots rang out across the campus of my school, LMU. Within a half hour, I could see half a dozen LAPD cars 200 yards outside of my window with a helicopter circling over my building. My roommates and I wondered what exactly was going on.

3G Americas Highlights New Research Report on Use of Cellular Text Messaging for Emergency Alert Services
"SMS is touted as being able to deliver critical information during disaster events, and such services have been purchased by universities and municipalities hoping to protect the general public," Traynor stated. "Unfortunately, such systems typically will not work as advertised."