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MediaTile announces emergency broadcast systems for education, corporate digital signage

June 21, 2009

ORLANDO, Fla. — The MediaTile Company, a provider of cellular digital signage solutions, has announced a new emergency broadcast triggering system that will be added to MediaTile Digital Sign in a Box displays, and the MediaCast content delivery and management system. The new Emergency Media Trigger (EMT) is designed to integrate with existing campus emergency notification systems and control centers. Using MediaTile's all-in-one, SaaS-based digital signage solutions, educational institutions and corporate enterprises can now easily deploy digital signage networks across their campuses while providing an efficient mechanism to deliver emergency broadcast messages. The announcement was made concurrent with Strategy Institute's InfoComm09 Digital Signage Technology Conference in Orlando.

MediaTile's digital signage solution will incorporate an EMT (Emergency Media Trigger) capability that enables emergency response teams to take immediate and complete control of the network in crisis or emergency situation.

The new Emergency Media Trigger (EMT) will enable network operators to use an external triggering mechanism, such as email, to interrupt a regularly scheduled program while automatically triggering an emergency message to play across a campus-wide digital signage network.  A second ‘all clear' external trigger will reset the network to its previously scheduled programming. The EMT feature is scheduled for release late summer, and will be supported on all installed MediaTile displays and networks.