The pandemic has shown the importance of being prepared for unexpected emergencies, and has given emergency communications systems a new role in helping people in the commercial and educational worlds.

Viking Electronics Inc. released its new 2020 Product Catalog. The catalog features many new innovations, as well as Viking’s core products — such as emergency phones, door entry systems, paging amplifiers, mass notification systems, hot line phones, and more. The catalog is a comprehensive “go-to” resource offering ideas and custom solutions from access control to zone paging and everything in between.

If you want to see how far technology has come with emergency communication and notification capabilities, look no further than Virginia Tech, a university campus that experienced two shooting events.

Speco’s Mass Alert Notification is ideal for schools, workplaces, venues and events where people gather. With their cellphones, every person can opt-in to receive emergency alerts in the form of text messages by texting a pre-defined keyword to a short code provided by the facility.

Kastle Systems International’s KastleAlert is a mobile, crowdsourced emergency mass communications platform.

SecuraTrac, a provider of mobile health and safety solutions focused on senior safety, employee well-being and the healthcare industry, announces its MobileDefender Model S (MD-S) is now integrated into the EMERgency24 Mass Notification system. Users of EMERgency24 will now have new channels of communication during an emergency via the MD-S device.