Text Alerting System Showcased on NBC Nightly News
Arlington, VA --[EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION NEWS]-- August 28, 2007 - Roam Secure, Inc. today, announced that the University of Southern California (USC) has deployed the Roam Secure Alert Network (RSAN™). TrojansAlert (https://trojansalert.usc.edu) enables campus public safety and university officials, to send targeted alerts to its 33,000 students and more than 17,000 faculty and staff. Parents of USC students can also sign up for the system.
USC’s main campus is located in downtown Los Angeles. The university also has a health sciences campus located east of downtown, plus facilities in Marina Del Rey, Orange County, Sacramento, Washington, D.C., Santa Catalina Island, and Alhambra. With RSAN the entire campus, or targeted areas both on and off campus can be notified. The system is capable of reaching most text-enabled device including: cell phones, pagers, e-mail, Blackberry, instant messaging as well as voice calls via landline and cellular phones and fax. RSAN integrates with other communication media including indoor and outdoor speakers and AM radio station. The system also provides two-way messaging capabilities. All messages are stored and presented in the web-based application via the AlertTracker or to the field via a mobile device, creating an alert summary and audit trail.
Roam Secure supports more than 135 RSAN systems across the country at major cities, counties, states and federal government agencies, schools, hospitals, airports, refineries and other key businesses for routine and emergency communication. The Roam Secure Information Exchange (RSIX) enables the University of Southern California to automatically and securely connect with other RSAN systems in six major metropolitan areas, including the Northern California Regional Terrorism Threat Assessment Center (NC RTTAC) and the three county system in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin. USC’s system can also share information with other RSAN systems across the country in Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Virginia, Maryland, District of Columbia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Colorado via RSIX. Each new RSAN system, including existing systems throughout California, can join the growing national emergency information exchange and share private and public all hazards emergency information regionally, statewide and nationally at no additional charge.
“USC joins a growing number of Universities across the country deploying RSAN and RSIX. USC has deployed a text-based, fully interoperable emergency alert system that serves the students, faculty, parents, and campus security at USC,” said David Drescher, CEO of Roam Secure. “They have further enhanced their communication capabilities and are better prepared to communicate with their constituents quickly, on all types of devices, and share information with other colleges and government agencies across the country.”
NBC Nightly News showcased the USC alert system along with Washington, DC and Roam Secure. Watch the video at http://www.roamsecure.net/pressitem.php?news_id=189.
Source: Vendor Press Release
University of Southern California Launches Roam Secure Alert Network for Emergency Notification (RSAN)
