Why is a Layered Security Plan for Schools Essential?

As parents, students, teachers, and administrators prepare for the start of the upcoming school year, emergency preparedness is top of mind. A layered security plan for schools ensures that if one security measure fails or isn’t accessible, others are there to protect students and staff. Redundancy is essential for creating a secure learning environment and minimizing potential harm during an emergency.

School Safety Technology Pioneers

For decades, both Telecor and Raptor have been protecting our schools with innovative school safety and security technology. Our recent two-way integration between eSeries Public Address and Intercom and Raptor’s emergency management solution aligns with the recommended Partner Alliance for School Safety (PASS), which emphasizes that “effective security involves multiple complementary strategies to deter, detect, delay, and respond to threats,” with a layered and tiered approach to securing and enhancing the safety of school environments.

Multi-Tiered Lockdown Alert Integrations & Notifications

With the eSeries and Raptor integration, a lockdown alert can be triggered directly from the Raptor mobile app. This instantly activates a coordinated eSeries response across your entire facility, ensuring consistent and immediate notifications through our emergency communication systems. Multiple eSeries channels are notified through a mass communication platform, including audio announcements, scrolling visual messages, flashing strobes, real-time mobile, SMS, and email alerts and visual floor plan confirmations with our intuitive graphical user interface.

When a lockdown is initiated through the eSeries platform, real-time notifications are sent to the Raptor Connect Mobile App, alerting administrators and safety personnel in real time, wherever they are. This reinforces the importance of fast, campus-wide emergency response and coordination when every second counts.

A Unified K-12 Emergency Alert Solution

The Telecor and Raptor two-way mass communication integration, paired with the eSeries graphical user interface, provides a seamless multi-tiered approach for your staff to communicate, respond, and take control in any school emergency. Multiple methods of lockdown alerting combined with fast, multi-layered notifications ensure your campus stays connected and informed in real-time. User-friendly icons, including the “I Love U Guys” Foundation’s Standard Response Protocol, which is “a proven, easy-to-adopt process for crisis response used by thousands of schools,” make it easy for teachers and school staff to swiftly execute incident management safety protocols, including lockdown.

As Kyle Jova, COO of Telecor, put it: “Our 2-way integration and intuitive graphical user interfaces make it easy for staff to communicate, respond, and manage any situation.” Read the Press Release.

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Contact us today for a live demo and let us show you how the Telecor + Raptor partnership is more than just an integration. It’s a step forward in building a culture of safety and preparedness from leaders in the school safety arena.