The Case for Connection
I recently read an article about a 90-year-old woman in hospice care in Iowa who was able to see and talk with her sister in North Dakota one last time via Skype. Neither of those women just took it upon themselves to hook up the necessary technology to make that interaction happen. Two other people […]
Linking Duress Alarms with CCTV Systems Through Video Paging
The first few minutes of an emergency are critical in determining outcomes, so the ability to see what’s happening greatly enhances situational awareness and better informs the appropriate response.
If bank tellers have panic buttons, why don’t our teachers?
There’s no greater cause than protecting our children, which is one of the main reasons I founded Status Solutions back in 2001. So of course I’m saddened by yet another shooting just this past Tuesday at a high school in Oregon. Access to guns, violent entertainment, mental illness. Regardless of the cause, the question is: […]
Helping Seniors Stay Connected
When Older Americans Month first was established in 1963, only 17 million Americans had reached their 65th birthdays. In 1980, President Jimmy Carter changed the name from Senior Citizens Month to Older Americans Month, and it has become a tradition to celebrate it every May, acknowledging the contributions of older persons to our country, especially […]
More Industries Go with Mobile Duress
Mobile duress is key to life safety in high-risk environments, and as such, it’s been a primary focus for Status Solutions since the company was founded in 2001. In fact, The Tomorrow Center in Gilead, Ohio, was one of our first customers. We outfitted teachers there with mobile duress buttons because the school serves students with severe […]
Status Solutions 101
Our company was established in 2001 around the concept of operational “status,” so we launched Status-E for the education market and Status-H for health care. But the purpose for each solution was the same: unify alarm and communication systems to provide situational awareness. By harnessing critical information and getting it to the people who need […]
The Eyes Have It
As we discussed last week, smoke will trigger a fire alarm, but that alarm just makes a noise and/or flashes a strobe light. It doesn’t indicate a fire’s location or provide a route to the nearest exit. Stand-alone alarms like this are inadequate because they don’t provide critical details. But we know that specificity matters. […]
Sixth Sensor
A hospital in Florida lost an entire supply of skin grafts because the refrigerator they were stored in malfunctioned, and a freezer malfunction in Massachusetts severely damaged a third of the world’s largest collection of brain samples being used to study autism. Considering the importance of blood, tissues, organs, vaccines and other medications to patient […]
Life Safety Alarm Integration
We started talking about life safety as the primary application area for situational awareness. First, we covered fixed and mobile duress; now I want to go back and talk about other life safety alarm systems. Wander management, infant abduction, telemetry devices, fire panels – virtually any life safety alarm system can be integrated for a […]
Mass Notification Gets the Word Out
Given the news out of Atlanta and some other Southern cities just hit with severe weather, we’re going to jump ahead in our series on situational awareness to talk about its mass notification application. We all know that you can’t control the weather, but you can control how you prepare and respond to weather emergencies […]
