Enterprise E911 solution—GUARDLY

Guardly announced that its Enterprise E911 solution for smartphones can now be used to enable faster, simpler response during active shooter incidents. The answer is geared towards large private enterprises and uses indoor positioning and mobile apps to detect active shooters earlier, locate people and shooters indoors and streamline communication between people across the shooter and a safety operations center. As indoor positioning is a more moderen advancement in security industry technology, Guardly today also announced the supply of a brand new white paper detailing how indoor positioning technologies can be utilized to enhance active shooter incident communications and outcomes.

“Indoor positioning technologies offer security leaders a remarkable opportunity to enhance situational awareness and response for quite a lot of threats including active shooters; much more powerful than what GPS technologies have provided the industry during the last decade,” said Josh Sookman, Guardly Founder. “As pioneers in indoor positioning and mobile safety solutions, we're devoted to demonstrating how these technologies can be utilized to drive better incident outcomes.”

Guardly’s Enterprise E911 solution improves Active Shooter Response outcomes by helping security teams improve situational awareness during these unpredictable and quickly evolving events. More specifically, the answer helps to more quickly identify shooters and their real-time position inside a building, identify where persons are sheltered in place and help recommend when and where they need to evacuate, and communicate more broadly with different stakeholder groups in real-time. The answer components include mobile safety apps, indoor positioning systems arrange within key buildings (additional hardware not always required), and a command center interface that lets security teams interact with people throughout the evolving active shooter incident.

The new white paper, titled Improving Response During Active Shooter Incidents with Indoor Positioning Systems, examines 5 key tactical challenges faced by security leaders as they manage and reply to active shooter threats, and explores how indoor positioning technologies may give strategic advantages. The white paper includes the opinions of a various set of past and present Chief Security Officers, and in addition provides a background on what indoor positioning technology is and the way it really works. The white paper is out there immediately as a free download at the Guardly website. 

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