Response Paging vs WiFi for Wireless Critical Alert Messaging
Response Paging vs WiFi for Wireless Critical Alert Messaging
For individuals who need to use critical alert messaging, every message is important, time-critical and requires immediate attention. Users of critical alert messaging have clear choices when it comes to wireless solutions. Today, WiFi networks have become very common place in healthcare as well as the home. While WiFi offers some great capabilities, using WiFi for critical alert messaging is not one of them. Your wireless communication solution MUST be available when you need it. How robust is your WiFi network?
WiFi networks are very complex to operate and you will have to involve an IT expert to ensure you have the proper installation and management of all the hundreds of access points. Additionally the WiFi networks utilize unlicensed spectrum with only three or four usable channels, resulting in unwanted interference and coverage gaps/holes.
A better solution for wireless critical alert messaging is a response paging system. It utilizes a single access point which once installed, offers a 99.99% wireless availability. In addition to a response paging system’s 99.99 % wireless coverage and availability, the communication devices used by the paging system are very cost-efficient, so you can get your critical messaging pagers into as many hands as you need. The battery life of response paging communication devices is also much longer – up to two weeks – as opposed to the devices you need to access a WiFi network. In the best choice for a wireless critical alert messaging solution, a response paging system wins easily!