MessageNet Connections is a browser-based, integrated system that unifies private and public, everyday and emergency communications into one powerful system. Connections integrates your existing communication systems to create communication bridges between people places and things. One of the unique advantages of MessageNet Connections systems is scalability, you can start with your specific needs now, and later uniquely upgrade your system to include additional functionality.
Feature groups of MessageNet Connections include...
LED Signs — VisualPA
A state-of-the-art system designed to deliver visual public address messages from any authorized PC running a browser to electronic LED sign boards in one room, throughout an entire campus, or across a WAN. It’s the ideal public communication system for noisy environments. VisualPA meets the requirements of the ADA relative to the needs of the deaf and hearing impaired for public communication.
- Communicates effectively in high-noise environments, or environments where quiet is mandatory.
- Provides multi-user use of LED signs. Multiple authorized users can deliver communications over the LED signs as a shared enterprise resource at the same time.
- Reduces noise caused by the overuse of audio intercom systems.
- Create emergency alerts, greetings, disaster instructions, bilingual information, and more.
- Provides capabilities not found in traditional audio intercom/PA systems.
- Click on a name or multiple names in the directory to deliver a message to the specific signs where the selected person or people are located.
- Meets the requirements of Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and HIPAA privacy regulations.
- Provides the digital display of fully synchronized time throughout the enterprise.
- "Always on Technology" provides constant delivery of information to everyone in viewing distance in times of emergency.
- Provide intermittent and periodic display of visual communications.
- Provides Scheduled Communication of visual public address messages.
PC Pop-Up's — PC Alert
This feature is designed to be a fast, easy way to deliver alert and emergency messages to any, or all, PCs on your network. PC Alert pops your message up as a window and scrolls the message until a preselected person or an event terminates it. PC Alerts can be set to display for a set period of time. PC Alert will not affecting any of the other programs that are running nor be affected by other programs. It is designed to work with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7.
- Reach people at their PCs quickly and easily by launching adhoc, fill in the blank, customized or fully predefined text messages with the click of a mouse.
- Multiple people can send and receive PC Alert messages at the same time.
- Messages can automatically identify the sender or author.
- Message priority can limit the number of messages displayed by the PC Alert program during times of emergency.
- Messages can pop-up through screen-savers.
- Delivers messages from any PC to any PC in the enterprise, with the proper authorization.
- Communicate with PCs running Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 on your existing network.
- Keeps your message scrolling until you are sure it has been received.
- Control who can send messages and who cannot.
- Reach individuals, predetermined groups, or everyone on your network with the same alert or emergency message.
- PC Alert can also be used to invoke the display of web content for the communication of complex information such as web pages, video and audio content.
- Features can be locked down globally or be provided as selections for individual users, as desired.
- PC Alert can function across the public internet for real time message delivery when traveling.
- Large moving text insures notice and easy reading at a distances up to and greater than 25 feet.
- Audible beeps can be delivered along with the scrolling message to gain attention.
- Messages can pop up and disappear on a repeating basis when desired.
- If a PC is off line when a PC Alert is sent, the message will be delivered as soon as the PC comes back on line if the message is still active and valid.
- Customers can use standard "Push technology" to install PC Alert software.
- PC Alert software updates can be delivered automatically by the Connections server.
Text Messaging — PageStation
An advanced text messaging software system that provides real-time text messaging to pagers, PDAs, and cell phones, from any authorized computer on your network. You deliver customized or predefined page messages with the simple click of a mouse. PageStation supports mass text messaging via a direct connection to Twitter, and reaches network PCs with text messages as if they were pagers.
- Delivers text messages to traditional numeric / alphanumeric pagers, PDAs, and PCs users with customized or predetermined text messages with the click of a mouse.
- Supports 2 way SMS texting, with reply messages threaded and displayed as conversations.
- Advanced texting features, message forwarding, delayed delivery, voicemail and message archiving.
- Built in Twitter interface provides low cost emergency text messaging for mass notifications. Increase the effectiveness of your communications through a service people already know and use.
- Supports multiple text messaging services and equipment manufacturers.
- Integrates with overhead paging, phones, PCs, TVs, and more, to create a unified communication system.
Safety, Security & Alerting Systems Integration — MESA
MessageNet Enterprise Security & Alerting features integrate and enhance your existing building automation, fire safety, and security systems. MESA adapts and prioritizes alerts from a variety of safety and security systems for delivery to any of the spectrum of communication devices used in the enterprise.
- When an emergency is detected, information can be sent to individuals via pagers and phones while PCs, electronic signs, and intercom/PA systems deliver different public content versions of the same messages.
- MESA uses wireless duress/panic buttons and other devices to provide nearly instantaneous communication of emergency conditions throughout your organization. MESA’s wireless buttons, motion detectors, window & door open detectors and other wireless devices all send signals to the Connections server for the alerting of the selected communication devices.
- The messages sent by the wireless buttons and sensor devices can be changed automatically by time of day or day of week, etc. One or more messages can be sent based on a single event.
- MESA allows security personnel to view devices in alarm from PC screens showing floor plans. Communication devices adjacent to security appliances can be viewed and accessed from the same screens.
- MESA provides a record of all messages sent and all buttons pushed. The archives provide a searchable record of all events indicating who pressed the button or stopped the message and when the event occurred.
- Because MESA delivers messages to your security department as well as to devices near the location of the emergency, you achieve the fastest possible response times from your staff.
- MESA can also provide a copy of the alert message to email boxes. Messages can be sent over the internet or intranets to electronic signs and PCs, even to outside security organizations if desired.
- MESA security camera system integrates with modern IP digital video surveillance systems, supports its own set of wired and wireless IP cameras and supports delivery of real-time streaming video to targeted PCs in pop-up windows. Archives the video to the MESA server or MESA DVRs as desired. User ID and password protection controls point and click access to real-time video streams.
- MESA duress buttons and motion detectors can trigger events to initiate the delivery of IP digital video to desired persons PCs.
- RFID technologies, such as Asset Tracking Systems, can be integrated with MESA to provide the vital interfaces to your full set of enterprise communication systems so that assets can be tracked and accessed efficiently.
- Weather Alert, Fire Alarm and other public warning systems can communicate directly with MESA to automatically announce their alerts and alarms over the intercom systems and display them on electronic signs and pagers.
Telephone Communications — CallVista
A voice communication system that integrates desk phones, home phones, cell phones, wireless phones and videophones. It includes an autodialing phone directory, in/out whiteboard functionality, and more. It works with all MessageNet products and is incredibly easy to learn and use.
- A complete directory, featuring multiple phone and pager numbers, e-mail, and more.
- Click-to-contact functionality with two-way reply communication.
- Provides the ability to sort, navigate, and arrange your directory to best suits your needs.
- Supports four (4) phone numbers per person, and allows the user to see on which phone the person is presently receiving calls.
- Out-dialing voice messaging.
- Supports the retrieval of stored voice messages.
- Provides many of the user features of the new IP telephone systems without replacing your existing telephone system.
- A powerful system that can work with all MessageNet Systems products, allowing you to instantly connect with overhead paging, intercom systems, telephones, numeric pagers, TVs, and more.
PA Systems — SecurePA
The software interface that extends the utility, security, and ease-of-use of Overhead Paging, Intercom, Mass Notification and PA systems. It’s ideal for emergency and alert communications for business, educational, and medical campuses, defense installations and other environments where real-time PA messaging is critical.
- A system that works with your existing PA, loudspeaker paging, intercom, and voice evacuation systems.
- An easy-to-learn, easy-to-use desktop interface with a highly intuitive graphical floor plan that lets you deliver messages to selected zones instantly.
- A secure system that lets you control and limit access to your public communication systems.
- High-quality text-to-speech in male and female voices, in English and Spanish.
- Allows you to record and schedule a virtually unlimited number of messages to be delivered to your intercom and public address systems.
- Send a single announcement simultaneously to rooms, floors, and buildings across multiple PA systems.
- A powerful system that can work with all MessageNet Systems products, allowing you to instantly connect with telephones, pagers, TVs, and more.
LCD Digital Signage & HDTV — MediaPort
An enterprise multimedia digital signage system designed for emergency and daily use. It employs the same browser-based user interface as the other MessageNet Connections products. MediaCom provides access to a varied array of MediaPorts, the MessageNet digital signage units, via your enterprise network. MediaCom delivers a variety of media types to the MediaPort displays. The supported communication and media types are:
- Live and recorded audio
- A large variety of video formats
- Web pages
- Windows PowerPoint
- On Screen Scrolling Tickers
- Text Messaging
- Photographs and graphics
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