RF Coverage Is Crucial for Your Facility’s Critical Messaging
When it comes to critical alert messaging, nothing can be left to chance. These types of messages are just what their title implies; they are critical to your hospital’s mission and they MUST be delivered and acknowledged. What is the best methodology for ensuring these messages get delivered to the proper people? The answer is simple: Your facility should be communicating these messages via high-powered radio broadcasts. A single antenna located at your facility and broadcasting at 900MHz can cover your entire hospital and approximately 20 miles beyond – without FAIL.
Unlike WiFi solutions that require multiple antennae — and even then can’t guarantee 100 percent coverage — radio broadcasts, using response pagers, PUSH your critical messages to staff members, ensuring delivery and providing acknowledgement of receipt and when and how staff members will respond to the messages. WiFi solutions rely on having their messages pulled from recipients, and again, if they are in a WiFi “dead zone,” your critical communication will never be delivered.
Personal experience is always the best example; turn your radio on and it’s always there. Turn your cell or smart phone on, and if you’re in area with no WiFI or cell coverage, you have an uncommunicative piece of hardware in your hand.