School Lockdown Alarms

[jmak]

Can anyone recommend LAN based alarm systems and/or suppliers?

 

We've had an edict that we need to urgently upgrade our lockdown procedures (due to a specific risk). Our alarm system sounders only have a single sound and we need a different sound so that we can immediately identify that we are in a lockdown situation.

 

Obviously the sounders are cheap (a simple bell would do as we have sirens for the alarms and lesson change). Our control panel doesn't have the capacity to control separate sounders, so we'd need a call point and wiring to all of the required locations. It struck me that it might be quicker, simpler and cheaper to install something that uses our existing LAN infrastructure.

 

Thanks

[IrritableTech]

Have you considered a tanoy type system? We have two levels of lockdown, full and partial so we need to make an announcement rather than just sound a noise.

 

We've just replaced our wifi with the unifi edu units which include a speaker and we've integrated them into our voip system. But you can get SIP speakers for this purpose as well.

[jmak]

Have you considered a tanoy type system? We have two levels of lockdown, full and partial so we need to make an announcement rather than just sound a noise.

 

We've just replaced our wifi with the unifi edu units which include a speaker and we've integrated them into our voip system. But you can get SIP speakers for this purpose as well.

My first thought was the Unifi APs - we're already on their standard APs, so it would give me an update to AC at the same time. First response from manglement was that they're too expensive, but when they get quotes for normal alarms that might change!

 

SIP tannoy systems is a good call - although a quick search for would suggest they don't cost a whole lot less.