When an Emergency Strikes, Every Second is Critical

ActiveAccess provides effective solutions for disseminating emergency information directly to the computer desktop within seconds

Communicating under emergency situations with a large campus population at any hour of the day is important. A computer is often-times the single technology students and staff have operating round-the-clock. ActiveAccess™ by SpectraRep® delivers a suite of trusted solutions for rapid emergency alerting to the computer desktop.

• ActiveCrawl RSS – Powerful integration with RSS feeds to automate delivery of emergency text crawls to the desktop within seconds (e2Campus certified solution; dual platform for PC and Mac)



• ActiveAlert – Fast, simple delivery of streaming video, audio and text crawl alerts



• ActiveAccess Desktop – Robust desktop application for delivering targeted emergency alerts, security warnings, weather alerts, or breaking news in the form of streaming/archived videos, audio feeds, HTML content, scrolling text alerts, and pop up alerts

Use ActiveAccess solutions as a direct channel to communicate campus advisories such as:

• Emergency alerts (via text crawls, graphical alerts or video alerts)
• Campus closings or delays
• Local and national weather from the National Weather Service
• National News
• Useful campus phone numbers
• Traffic and parking updates
• Campus transportation
• Health Advisories

Advantages of Delivering Crawls and Alerts to the Desktop

• A computer is often-times the single technology students and staff have operating during class, in libraries and offices and in dormitories.

• Text messages and voice calls to cell phones are unreliable and slow in a crisis and could even interfere with 911 communications, according to a study on emergency notification systems within colleges and universities conducted by Georgia Tech’s Information Security Center.

• In the event that cell phone networks are busy, an alert or crawl can still be generated via the Internet and sent directly to the computer desktop throughout the campus

• E-mail alerts could be missed in the cluttered inbox

• ActiveAccess is stay-in-front technology - it always appears on the top of the computer desktop even screensavers, ensuring information sent with ActiveAccess will not be missed.