Costs vs. Functionality in Wireless Critical Alert Messaging
When it comes to critical alert messaging, do higher costs mean better communication? Let’s examine the trade-offs of cost vs. functionality in critical communications. The bottom line question in this discussion is doing the more costly wireless media – WiFi, cellular or iPhones provide superior communication channels for your critical messages. When all things are considered, the answer to this question is: no! The mission of critical alerting is to communicate a critical message as quickly and accurately as possible and have assurance that your critical communication has been received and is being acted upon. The technologies of the more costly media mentioned above add considerable complexity to the critical communication stream, and when this is the case, there are many things that can go wrong to hamper the delivery of a critical message. A response paging system is much less costly and more simple to operate. Its single focus is the delivery of critical messages and providing assurance that those messages have been received and are bring responded to. In critical alert messaging, more expensive does not mean better communication.