Technology

Your Questions About Emergency Communications – Answered

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When it comes to the safety of students, nearly everyone can agree that taking extra precautions is worth the effort. However, there’s always two sides to every solution. For example, fencing off campuses and controlling one point of entry limits access by unauthorized persons, but it can cause traffic and delays. Emergency communications equipment often brings up similar questions… which… [Read More...]

Why Phone Companies are Quitting Copper Wiring

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In 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ruled that telephone companies were not required to maintain traditional copper telephone lines as long as they had a suitable replacement in place. Since that time, phone companies across the country have been looking into alternative wiring for a number of reasons.1. Copper isn’t as cheap as it used to be.
Copper is… [Read More...]

Are You Ready to Say Goodbye to 3G?

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AT&T and Verizon are Retiring 3G Service This Year Because cellular customers want more data, more speed, and clearer, more stable calls many major providers have been upgrading their service to 4G and 5G. At the same time, they’ve been discontinuing 3G service so they can concentrate on maintaining the new technology at the levels customers expect.
One of the… [Read More...]

When “Networked” Doesn’t Work

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How CASE Equipment Prevents System-Wide Failures There’s a lot of talk these days about making sure everything is “connected” or “running in parallel” or “synced,” but it’s not truly the best way to set up a reliable emergency communications system. Ideally, each unit should function independently – ensuring the full system has as many functioning units as possible at any… [Read More...]

What an Increase in Cell-Only Usage Means for Public Safety

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Some recent data shows an increasing trend to get rid of traditional telephone landlines and instead use only cellular/mobile phone service. Since about 2016, fewer and fewer people are using landlines and the number of people relying solely on their cell phones keeps growing. This means a few things in regards to public safety.
1. People may be more connected… [Read More...]

Repair or Retrofit?

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Upgrading as an Alternative to Repair Parts for Emergency Phone Towers Eventually, almost all emergency communications equipment reaches a point where it needs repair or replacement. Sometimes, it’s not even about the phone or call box itself, but the electrical and phone lines connected to it. Over time, landlines can degrade or need to be replaced with newer lines to… [Read More...]

Wireless Mass Notification System

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One of the most innovative upgrades available on select CASE Emergency Systems products is Mass Notification – which gives your designated operators the ability to broadcast messages using CASE equipment as a public address system. But that’s only the beginning of what Mass Notification from CASE makes possible…. Our systems can be 100% wireless – allowing broadcasts even in remote… [Read More...]

Smart Ways to Fund School Safety? Put CASE on the Case!

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Houston’s Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District took an innovative approach towards solving their school safety needs – they used community education bonds to fund the installation of 50 CASE Blue Light Towers. No waiting for a state congressional session to ask for funds… no tedious fundraising campaign to oversee… just a smart use of dollars that the community generated to… [Read More...]

CASEAlert – Always On the Job

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If emergency call boxes that don't work or perform as expected, it's almost like not having them at all. But how do you know if a box is actually operational? One city worker in California had to test each box individually to find problems... but we think there's a better way. Read more: http://www.triplicate.com/news/4544231-151/off-the-hook Every CASE Emergency Call Box system comes equipped and pre-installed with our CASEAlert software. This unique self-running, self-checking system... [Read More...]