[sims] Fire Drills

[Kyle]

We've got Emerge an dare currently thinking of doing something around this. We too print register after AM reg ready for a fire drill but what happens if you need contact details in an emergency. Emerge will give you all this but woudl love to find out if anyone is using it in any way for the Fire drill?

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[Gongalong]

I'm curious about Emerge. We currently have SIMS standalone, subscribed through the LA, so not sure whether this is an additional charge. Realistically though to make the registration quick and efficient it would probably require that every tutor had a tablet, and I can't see us having any budget for that, aside from providing wifi at the muster point.

[vikpaw]

Emerge is an extra charge. Per device. Or you can get a site licence. It doesn't have to be on tablet, it could be an iPhone or Android phone.

It's really easy to configure and lock out to protect the data. I recently checked the offline mode and you can set a time out period down to the minute after which it deactivates.

 

Bromcom works offline, for taking registers. I also recently found out that CHQ the SIMS partner for clubs management has apps and similar facilities for registration too.

[staningrimsby]

We are looking at using SIMS Emerge as well for fire drills etc, have been told by Capita that we can have a 30 day evaluation of the software

so will look at implementing it around the next time there is a school trip as a member of staff can also use the ipad to call up personal data on the pupils away from the school as well.

 

We did ask for a quote from Capita which came back at around £3000 for a site licence per year, not cheap but if it does what it claims then it will be worth the money.

[glennda]

Emerge will do the required stuff i think although you are in the same prediciment if somebody doesn't download the data to the device on the days that the fire alarm goes off i think all hell will ensue.

 

Personally i don't think a technical way of doing this is efficient (apart from saving paper etc). I would setup a few batch files which can be saved on the admin staffs machines which are just command reporter scripts to generate all registers to be printed. This could even be tagged to the taskbar so as soon as the admin team hear the alarm quick click wait for it to churn out the report and hit print, have a copier/printer next to the fire escape.

 

although again you have to hope the admin staffs machines have a data connection at the time of the alarm going off...

[mattianuk]

We have a biometric registration system, a unit in every classroom, syncs with SIMS but also has a web interface.

 

The system is plugged into the fire alarm, as soon as the bell is triggered it prints of the report to a specific printer in the backup server room, the printer is used for nothing else by no one else...

 

If that fails, can be printed manually, and all admin staff are trained in how to do that.

[chocoloco]

Hi Mattianuk,

 

I'd like to setup a dedicated fire list printer.

 

Can you tell me what Biometric system and what hardware connects to the fire alarm?

 

Thanks,