How do you communicate a vital, authoritative message in an emergency? Beacon gets your message to large groups of people, no matter where they are.

Beacon uses multiple communications channels (SMS, email, landline, pager etc.) to ensure that your message is delivered in an emergency. You can select to send to message to recipients based on their profile (such as by department or expertise) or by their geographic location. Additionally the comprehensive reporting allows you to quickly see where and to whom the message has been sent, enabling you to take informed decisions about how best to allocate your resources.

• SMS, pager, email, landlines, web, PDA
• Spatial targetting
• 2-way communication
• Real-time intellligent reporting

This incredibly powerful communications tool has found a large number of uses in the public and private sector: from usage in city centres to warn and inform residents and local businesses of terrorism risk, to community consultancy, to staff emergency roll-call, and for keeping parents informed in the event of an incident in school. Read on for more examples, or have a look at the complete list of features.