Miller, director of public safety at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, Calif., points out that the test was successful. “The procedures and technology is always evolving. To spread the word, you just have to use a diversity of types of communications but make sure to use what the recipients are using. For many students, for example, e-mail is “old timers’ stuff.”
In addition to mass notification, the university has emergency telephones being upgraded with speakers. Miller works with integrator Premier Security Services, formerly JDC Security, on the phones. His in-house IT operation identified mass notification systems and both in-house operations agreed on a system from Everbridge, Glendale, Calif.