Battery Life and Critical Messaging
Battery life plays a key role in the availability and response time of clinical personnel. When a battery dies, at best, it wastes time and disrupts work flow. At worst, personnel miss important or even critical messages while dealing with the problem. In choosing the best system for critical messaging, the life of the battery must be carefully considered. Furthermore, battery life sets a constraint on the number of devices required to cover a shift. User equipment with shorter battery life requires more charging time and therefore more devices to cover the same number of personnel.
Cell phone batteries last 2-3 days between charging, a good Wi-Fi phone will last maybe 10 hours. In contrast, a response paging system is designed from the ground up to conserve battery life, yielding one-to-two weeks between charging. This type of battery life easily makes it through multiple shifts between charging, reducing the total number of devices required and improving reliability and efficiency of the overall messaging system. For reliable critical alert messaging, there is one sure, proven solution that will always be there — with its battery ready to perform — and that is response paging.