Emergency communications systems are being called upon to do more than ever. For years many of these systems, sometimes built into mass communications systems, have included emergency telephones and call buttons — also known as blue light boxes — enabling security or public safety personnel to receive alerts as well as to send them. But some of today’s systems take two-way communications to another level.
Despite how it may have been perceived in the past, “emergency communications is not a niche,” observes David Fleming, director of marketing and design for Holland, Mich.-based manufacturer Code Blue Corp.