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Benefitsof ReplacingTwo-WayRadios withHandsetsonCellular Networks

Submitted by Siyata Mobile

For every school district in the US and internationally, the importance of getting school safety right has never been higher. Ensuring that students and staff are safe is every bit the priority that educating our students needs to be, whenever students and staff are on school property, and when students are in a school transportation vehicle such as our iconic yellow school buses. Siyata Mobile believes that technology has advanced significantly in recent years allowing school districts to identify and respond appropriately to safety threats of all kinds such as intruders on the property, or natural disasters, or medical emergencies. For more than 50 years, some of the earliest technology that helped schools respond to safety threats was the school’s intercom system, which could quickly broadcast a one-way voice message from the office to every classroom, to auxiliary buildings and to the schoolyard. Teachers also had a two-way intercom solution at a fixed location in each classroom to speak directly with the office. Over the years, schools often supplemented this with portable handheld two-way radios carried by selected teachers or staff to alert the office or other staff to any safety threat, and to request assistance. Using Push-to-Talk or “PTT” technology, these portable radios would work generally throughout the school property, and as well, mobile two-way radios could be installed in school buses to contact their bus dispatcher regarding any safety threats. The shortcoming with portable and mobile radios was their high cost, and their limited coverage where the radios would work. When students were taken on school trips or sporting competitions away from the school in less familiar territory, often radios were out of range. Today, Siyata Mobile believes that affordable, compact, simple-to-use handsets like its new SD7 PTT Handset that work on nationwide cellular networks wherever there is cellular coverage are more reliable solutions for school districts. Siyata believes that a handset inside every classroom for each teacher to immediately request

assistance, or to communicate a safety threat wherever the teacher happens to be, will result in faster and more effective responses. In addition to using the SD7 PTT Handsets for voice conversations with the office, its red SOS Button can be enabled with emergency management response solutions such as CrisisGo, which alerts all required school administration about a safety threat, and the solution can even provide a direct voice link to local first responders. The solution provides a web interface for administration to track and resolve the safety threat, and it can provide 2D or even 3D mapping of the school building to identify precisely where the emergency message originated. Siyata Mobile and CrisisGo are committed to remain at the forefront of affordable new technology to make schools safer for every student, teacher, and staff person.

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