Specialty Schools Select e2Campus for Emergency Notifications

Omnilert, LLC, maker of e2Campus, an emergency notification system for education, has announced that a dozen smaller specialty schools have recently selected e2Campus for multimodal emergency notifications. 

Customers are citing ease of use, reliability and affordability as main reasons for choosing e2Campus.

The company officials said that e2Campus, which is used by more than 650 schools around the country, is the first and most trusted unified emergency notification system in education. 

The CAP compliant, Tier-1 notification system enables non-technical staff to administer and send custom or predefined messages instantly to the entire campus community for improved crisis communications. 

The company officials said that the specialty schools that have recently implemented e2Campus multimodal emergency notifications include Atlanta Institute of Music, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Maine College of Art and Pratt Institute and others.

“If I am going to be instantly immersed in an emergency situation, I need to put a message out and spend as little time as possible doing it so I can continue my focus on the emergency at hand and e2Campus lets me do this. Its simplicity and speed is very valuable to me,” William Schmitz, director of safety and security for Pratt Institute in New York, said.

“I hope I never have to use it in the case of an emergency, but certainly with the weather, it has been a real effective tool,” Schmitz said. “It's very fast. I push 'send message' and my cell phone is almost instantly receiving the message.” 

“Even if not everybody has signed up, a lot of people get the message by word of mouth from those who received the e2Campus alert,” he said, adding that since the institute has signed on with e2Campus, it not had any problems. 

“And, we have confidence in e2Campus getting the message out. I don't know if you get any easier, any simpler, any more reliable than what e2Campus offers,” he added.

Chris Fragale, director of media services at Atlanta Institute of Music, said that e2Campus is a very easy-to-use service. 

“We have to use it now just to be in touch with our students. They told us point blank that they do not pay attention to signs we put up on doors or where they have to clock in everyday, so e2Campus has been an easy tool to reach everyone in an efficient way,” Fragale said.

And, with the cost of e2Campus very competitive and moderately priced compared to everything else, the institute chose e2Campus because they cater specifically to schools and all their services are already tailored towards that environment.