Achieving situational awareness
by creating one common alerting
system for your entire facility
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Overview
Delivered by SARA
The Situational Awareness and Response Assistant (SARA) is an automated alerting system and awareness
engine that sends voice and text alerts via phone, pager, email, etc. SARA provides a wireless sensor network,
integration tools (to existing systems and devices) and broadcast communication in a single solution.
This rich set of capabilities resides on a single technology platform, allowing your facility to utilize one system
to turn all of your alarms into managed alerts.:
• One powerful alerting system
• The unique Voice of SARA
• Accurate location via SARA’s Positioning System (SPS)
• Integration to current systems
• Safety and activity alerts
• Remote uptime supervision and disaster recovery
While striving to provide a safe, secure and productive
productive. Taking a wider view of the facility’s true needs
environment, you are also challenged to maintain peak
requires a solution that addresses safety and security,
overall staff efficiency and effectiveness. A successful business
environmental conditions affecting the facility, as well as the
is one that creates a balance between a productive staff
need for simple broadcast communication of emergencies,
and satisfied customers. Installing SARA is like adding
as well as activities and events.
another staff person that works 24 hours a day, seven days
a week managing all of your alarms. SARA enables
The Voice of SARA
awareness of any situation by allowing you to read, hear
Through a simple to use text to voice engine, SARA can send
and see what’s going on inside and outside your facility
voice and text alerts to in-building pagers, email and telephones,
regarding safety, security and environmental issues.
as well as to cell phones, home phones and external email.
This allows everyone to be notified of important events at
A technology solution to enable Situational Awareness
any time, any place. The appropriate staff can quickly address
leverages current generation tools like email, voice, web
safety and security concerns or environmental problems
and wireless, to keep staff aware and make them more
before they turn into emergencies.
Life Safety Assurance • Security Monitoring • Environmental Awareness • Mass Notification
Providing Accurate Location Information
SARA’s innovative Positioning System (SPS)
provides enhanced location support for mobile
devices within the EchoStream RF Infrastructure.
Through vector mapping technology, SARA
provides highly accurate location data which
shows the proximity of the mobile device to a
fixed device within the infrastructure. Points of
interest can be defined anywhere on your
campus, in order to provide multiple points of
data to more quickly and easily find those in need
of help. The location provided by SARA via SPS
can be as accurate as to the apartment level.
Leveraging Current Infrastructure
When seeking a cost effective solution for
monitoring, alerting and communicating, replacing
existing systems is not always an option.
Therefore complete integration to systems and
devices is a requirement. Status Solutions has
the expertise to build upon your current systems.
SARA also leverages your Network investments.
SARA is a network-based system that is
accessible from anywhere you can access
your network.
Broadcast Communication
Alerts for events, security alerts, scheduled
activities, etc. can be scheduled and automatically
sent via phone to designated individuals.
The technology uses a “text-to-voice” capability
which is integrated with the phone system.
Regularly scheduled, recurring events can be
entered into the system, or “Quick Messages”
can be created. Quick Messages are an effective
tool for last minute schedule changes or safety
related information, such as inclement weather.
Personnel can easily update information and
schedule or create alerts on-demand. Alerts
and reminders can also be in text form and sent
via email in much the same way.
Remote Supervision and Back Up
You can be assured that your system will always
be up and running with remote system supervision
and backup being provided by Status Solutions.
The three levels of supervision include system
level, integration level and device level. As new
updates are made available, upgrades can be
made to your software remotely. In the event that
a disaster occurs, Status Solutions will be able to
perform a remote recovery to help retrieve and
restore your valuable information.
This wireless solution is designed to be
administered and maintained by your personnel,
and has the flexibility to easily adapt to changes
in the environment without affecting the system.
Existing staff are able to maintain a simple and
intuitive web-based system.
SARA Working for You
SARA is applicable in a variety of different industries
and environments, including courthouses,
manufacturing facilities, schools, etc. For example,
panic buttons can be installed in fixed locations
such as judges’ chambers, courtrooms, jails,
waiting areas, and probation offices, while
wireless panic buttons can be worn by judges
as they walk throughout the government
campus and parking garages. Judges faced
with a threatening situation are able to press a
single button, and be assured that someone will
respond as quickly as possible.
In an educational facility or across a college
campus, door and window monitoring, fixed and
wireless panic buttons, along with surveillance
cameras can provide the means by which
SARA can notify the appropriate individuals
and authorities in the event an incident occurs.
As your needs evolve and change, enhancements
to your existing technology environment can
be quickly and easily made by adding sensors
and devices including cigarette busters, water
sensors, temperature monitors, motion and
smoke detectors, or integrating to systems
such as fire systems. Regardless of your industry,
your need to achieve situational awareness can
be met by SARA.
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