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Adapting Fire Safety Solutions to the Commercial Office Building

Understanding the different fire safety needs for each area of your commercial office building is crucial to the prevention, detection and suppression of fire-related emergencies. Customizing the fire safety solutions to these different areas can make all the difference in the event of a fire, ensuring the protection of your staff and facility when it counts.

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Level365 Transforms School’s Communication Setup

Cathedral High School, an Indianapolis-based private high school with over 1000 students, faced recurring issues with its outdated phone system, experiencing frequent outages that disrupted daily operations and impeded communication with parents. Level365, a leading provider of unified communications services, was brought in to address these challenges and deliver a reliable, efficient, and modern communication solution.

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Rauland Responder Enterprise wins 2024 MedTech Breakthrough award

Rauland's Responder® Enterprise solution has been selected as winner of the “Best Clinical Administration Hardware Device” award in the 8th annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by MedTech Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies, and products in the global digital health and medical technology market.

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Maximize Safety with Voice and Visual Fire Alarm Systems

Buildings are becoming increasingly complex with countless people move through them all the time. Not all of them will be familiar with the building or in a physical condition to escape a danger zone. Tailoring to this complexity with visual, acoustic and voice alarming is essential to protecting lives and complying to safety standards.

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Salient Leading Surveillance Management Software for Every Application

Salient’s open cloud video data platform is simple, flexible, and scales with your business needs. The systems empower you to view, record, and use your video data to drive business operations with actionable insights while going beyond your safety and security needs. Salient’s platforms include VMS, Cloud, Analytics, and Appliance solutions that are simple, scalable, and flexible.

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Preventative Technical Fire Safety in Data Centers

The primary task of technical equipment in data centers is to ensure maximum availability of data. Fire safety plays a major role in this context. The figures cited in the manual “Designing and Operating IT Rooms and Data Centers” [1] are eye-opening: If a company’s data center is destroyed by fire, the very existence of the business is at stake. 70 percent of all affected businesses are forced to shut down. Only 23 percent are fully operational again after one year. Minimizing the risk of fire damage is therefore a top priority. Early detection of incipient fires and swift initiation of countermeasures are critical basic requirements for maximum system availability.

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Blue Light Phones Are Still Relevant For Campus Safety

According to stats compiled by Axon, there were 27,300 crimes reported on postsecondary education campuses over the course of 2019 and 2020, or almost 19 crimes per 10,000 students. These include assaults, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts, among others. To help deter these incidents, many campuses in the United States employ the use of blue emergency phones (also known as emergency blue light phones or blue light boxes).

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Join Us at HECC 2023

On November 8-11, 2024 Communication Company will be at booths #83-84 at Union Station in Indianapolis for the Hoosier Educational Computer Coordinators (HECC) 2023 conference. See Jordan Moss to enter a chance to win a $250 gift card. 

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Visit Us at MWHCEC 2023

Put this event on your calendars. The Communication Company team will be at the 2023 MWHCEC Midwest Healthcare Clinical Engineering Conference. You can visit team members at booth #604 at the Indianapolis, Indiana Convention Center on November 14th when the expo portion of the program will be open. The conference runs from November 12-14.

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The Future Is Here: Are You Ready?

This year, our CEO, Dan Schmidtendorff of Communication Company, became the board president of the NSCA, an industry association leader in all things systems integration. This year, the Pivot to Profit 2023 conference by NSCA introduced exciting ideas related to critical market factors like AI, and the mission-critical nature of what integrators provide to customers has made pivoting even more vital in 2023 and beyond. Read more now.

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Early Fire Detection Is Crucial

The risks of fire and explosion in the food and beverage industry are often underestimated. Especially in this sector, however, minor fires can cause significant material and consequential losses. But process interruptions caused by false alarms are also costly. The best remedy is detection as early and as reliably as possible using innovative, false alarm-proof fire alarms.

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